Hove Road Rosebud –

An Interior Alteration  to a 1990’s coastal home

 

^{Our clients had purchased the home over 20 years ago and were keen to revamp its interior and create a modern contemporary home. A cooks kitchen was re-designed on the upper floor, with a pantry created out of a redundant hallway. Warm walnut joinery offers a contrast to the crisp white cabinetry.}

^{Caesarstone Benches for the island and cooking areas and a low height breakfast bar. The bar was given an overhaul and hidden from view via ‘brise-soleil’ walnut veneer fins and shelving. Finally, a main family bathroom with a feature wall of cracked feature tiles. New stairs and under stair storage solve the age old renovation problem.}

^{A much loved ‘ugly duckling’ home with a spectacular bay views.}

Rennie Street Thornbury –

An Alteration + Addition to a Californian Bungalow

The project is an alteration and addition in the northern suburb of Thornbury. The existing house built after World War One in the suburb’s pre-dominant ‘Californian Bungalow’ – style and is one of many distinct plans created by the State Savings Bank Scheme after World War One.
The project takes it’s cue from the lean-to form common to homes of this era, in which  service rooms and open verandah spaces are located at the rear under a skillion roof addition  pitched down low and leant against an east west gable roof line.
The new ‘lean-to’ addition stretches across the block from western boundary to eastern access pathway allowing for a new articulated northern elevation.     

Two window seats face the garden.

Rennie Street is a highly personalised alteration arranged with care for its inhabitants.

 

Cameron Street Coburg – 

An Alteration + Addition to an Edwardian Cottage

 ^{A two-storey alteration + addition to an interwar timber cottage for a family of three. The brief required the front three rooms and existing hallway to remain with a two storey addition placed to the rear. A careful consideration of the existing east/west site and a train line to its rear meant a considered design strategy that would allow light to enter the interior spaces but remain private to its neighbours. The upper floors reflect the planning constraints, reveals itself as a cranked form, and are clad in Cemintel sheeting. The material selection reflects the desire for the client to have a house that would be pared back and be low maintenance. The project required some rather extensive value management to ensure that it came in within budget.} 

 

Glyndebourne Avenue Toorak

– An alteration to a Burley Griffin Knitlock Cottage to an Existing Edwardian Cottage

 

 ^{Designed in 1922 by Walter Burley Griffin  + Marion Mahony Griffin for Thomas Salter, the Salter House was built using the Griffin’s patented system known as ‘Knitlock’, a modular system of interlocking ’tiles’ that were intended to be both aesthetic + cost effective. Our clients bought the property in January 2018 with a view to its careful restoration. The brief was to alow the house to reveal itself through its unique structure , materiality and context. Our response was to update the environmental + sustainable attributes of the original house through carefully considered interanl and external interventions. This was achieved by only doing what was necessary and retaining as much of Walter + Marion’s original intentions. True to the Arts + Crafts philosophy, the home has been thoughtfully embedded in a revamped native setting by landscape architect, Sam Cox. It is a return to a similar style of garden that was created by well-known landscaper Gordon Ford, who was a mentor to our landscaper Sam Cox.} 

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