Our Team
Our Homeful team want to help you achieve a balanced and humble lifestyle full of what matters to you.
small home solutions to support your ideal Tasmanian lifestyle
Jane Hilliard
Founding Director
Bachelor of Environmental Design / Registered Building Designer
Since graduating in Environmental Design from the University of Tasmania, Jane has enjoyed a 15-year career as a successful architectural building designer with her business Designful. Homeful by Designful is the product of Jane’s mission to make good design available to more people.
“Homeful by Designful is our response to housing affordability, with a focus on user-wellbeing, ‘enoughness’, and a low environmental impact. It is a movement back towards what matters, a journey back to true values: valuing the smaller, everyday moments that are the real substance of a life well-lived.”
Each Homeful design provides an opportunity to reconsider how we are using and sharing land, and how we are living in our environment and with each other.
Rosie Shield
Manager | Project Leader | Engagement & Content Developer
Masters of Architecture
Rosie is passionate about exploring the connection between people, landscapes and built environments, to create healthy home spaces for everyday living. “I’m excited to see a movement towards built environments becoming more sustainable: financially, socially and most importantly environmentally.”
With years of experience working for a residential building company, she is knowledgeable and proficient in collaborating directly with a broad range of consultants, providing creative solutions to budget restraints, and dealing with on site surprises!
Rosie believes small home spaces can act as a solution to everyday stresses, helping to cut down time spent cleaning or mitigating the feeling of having too much stuff, enabling more time spent outside! “Essentially making time at home feel like mini breaks. Smaller buildings with more planted surrounds also encourages birds, native fauna and bees back into our peripheries. A connection many of us have lost along the way, but we're excitedly moving to re engage with this way of living.”
Sebastian McCormack
Documenter
Bachelor of Environmental Design
After graduating from the University of Tasmania, Sebastian has spent the last four years freelancing with small design practices in Victoria. Sebastian is excited to have recently joined the Homeful team to collaboratively design home spaces for everyday people with sustainability at the core.
“I believe the ethos of Homeful is part of the solution in making housing more cohesive with the environment, both from a carbon footprint perspective, and how houses interact with the land they are perched upon.” In a time where reducing our carbon footprint is more essential than ever, Sebastian brings experience working with residential builders and clients to create sustainable, humble home designs.
Homeful’s designs allow the user to enjoy good design, at an affordable price, while still using low impact materials that will last. The designs are neat, minimising the ground footprint, while still having enough space to accommodate the different needs of different people. Homeful encourages the use of outside space- year round- allowing us to realise with smaller internal space, we can make use of the huge open the space of the outside world around us.
Beth Lawler
Operations + Engagement Coordinator
Beth hopes Homeful can help ease the current housing-affordability crisis, by facilitating more creative use of space.
“I foresee land-sharing becoming much more commonplace. I hope that with Homeful we can help people see the potential of their backyard, or their block of land, in a creative and interesting way. I hope we can stop looking at these spaces capitalistically / with greed (ie: how much money can I make from this?!), and more holistically (ie: how can I help others, with this piece of land I have the good fortune to own?).”
“We think of home ownership in such a siloed way, but there are much more interesting ways we can be developing land, making it more affordable for all of us to own a home.”