Custom Lounge in Bulimba — Built to Fit Apartments, Townhouses and Family Homes

Wikipedia describes Bulimba as an affluent inner eastern suburb on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, with leafy residential streets and traditional Queenslander homes, and gives its area as 2.9 square kilometres. The 2021 Census counted 3,360 private dwellings in that compact area, and they are a remarkably mixed collection.

Separate houses make up 45.7% of Bulimba's dwellings, well under the national 72.3%. Flats and apartments account for 39.5%, nearly three times the national 14.2%, and semi-detached homes, terraces and townhouses for 14.7%, against 12.6%. Bedroom counts are spread just as widely: 7.1% of dwellings have one bedroom, 29.2% have two, 29.3% have three and 33.3% have four or more. Nationally, two-bedroom homes are only 19.1% of the stock.

That spread is the case for building a custom lounge in Bulimba. With roughly equal shares of two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-or-more-bedroom homes, there is no single typical living room to design for. The average household of 2.4 people, close to the national 2.5, still needs a lounge that seats everyone, but the room it has to fit varies far more here than in a suburb of near-identical houses.

Bulimba also has a working commercial strip. Wikipedia describes a prominent dining and retail precinct centred on Oxford Street, and venues there need seating that fits their floor plan, not a catalogue's.