What to design for a family of which one dislikes mess and the other doesn’t mind at all, whilst there is no place for a storage room? In an old dark garage of 23m deep and 5m wide, two main elements define the design of the apartment: a patio that introduces a surprising amount of daylight in the middle of the floor plan and a 16m long plywood ‘storage wall’ containing a large amount of storage space and three ‘niches’ that allow for the unavoidable mess-making of a family with two kids in a confined areas: