Location: Eaglemont, VIC
Type: Alteration & Addition
Service Tier: Full Scope
A home that brings the garden into daily life. With its expressive roofline and deep connection to the outdoors, this thoughtful addition allows the rhythms of nature to shape how the family lives, gathers, and grows.
A Visible Connection to Water
The home’s distinctive single-sloped roof makes water collection a visible part of daily life. Exposed gutters and chain downpipes guide rainwater into galvanized storage tanks, making each rainfall feel like an event.
Framing the Landscape
Every room offers a considered view of the garden. These sightlines keep the landscape close and ever-changing, bringing the evolving textures and colours of the seasons into the daily experience of home.
Crafted and Considered
Custom timber joinery and practical storage zones, like the outdoor area for gardening tools, reflect values of care and connection. These functional moments are elevated as part of the home’s narrative.
Working With the Environment
Rather than controlling nature, the home responds to it. Passive strategies, natural materials, and thoughtful siting allow the house to breathe with the land.
A Garden-Centric Life
The architecture doesn’t overpower the site. Instead, it invites a deeper relationship with the garden, a space where growth, rest, and joy unfold together.
This project was a Full Scope engagement.
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Location: Elwood, VIC
Type: Alteration & Addition
Service Tier: Full Scope
Tucked within a narrow inner-city block, this addition transforms a once-constrained home into a calm and connected retreat. At the centre, a courtyard anchors light, movement, and daily life, opening the home to sky, garden, and quiet moments of flow.
A Home Built Around Air and Sky
This project reimagines a tight urban block, using the courtyard as a central pause point. It becomes the connective tissue between indoor and outdoor spaces, opening up what was once confined and introducing movement, openness, and light into the rhythm of daily life.
Form Follows Constraint
The new second storey is shaped by the site’s setbacks, resulting in an elegant folded form. It houses a private main suite that draws in natural light through carefully positioned skylights and operable windows, encouraging passive ventilation and gentle connection to the outdoors.
Layers of Retreat
A generous deck extends from the upper level, offering an elevated space to pause and look out across the courtyard. Below, it creates shelter and intimacy, providing shade and enclosure for the outdoor living space beneath.
Every Element Activated
The courtyard becomes a multifunctional hub. Large openings connect it to the kitchen and garage, turning everyday rituals into moments of ease. Even parked cars become part of the architecture, framed through a translucent garage façade that offers texture and softness instead of hard edges.
An Urban Garden
Green roofs soften the building’s silhouette and extend nature upward. Skylights throughout the home draw sunlight deep inside, helping the interiors breathe. The result is a space that feels both rooted and open, a home designed for contemporary living, shaped by its place and in tune with the sky.
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Location: Frankston North, VIC
Type: Alteration & Addition
Service Tier: Full Scope
A poetic reworking of two structures into a singular retreat for music, solitude, and skywatching. This home becomes a quiet performance space and sanctuary, held together under a light-filled canopy that frames the heavens above.
A Canopy That Connects
This project gently stitches together two existing buildings beneath one unifying roof. More than a shelter, the new roof behaves like a tree canopy, filtering light, casting soft shadows, and holding space for moments of quiet and creativity. It connects the once-separated main house and bungalow into a single, coherent whole.
Built With Restraint
The design embraces simplicity. Pre-manufactured trusses form the expansive roofline, allowing the new structure to integrate without disturbing the original concrete walls. Inside, natural light moves freely between the spaces, softening transitions and adding warmth.
A Stage for Sound
At the heart of the home is a baby Grand Piano, sometimes concealed behind a sliding door, sometimes revealed for impromptu performances. The home transforms easily from a place of solitude to a space for collaboration and music.
Between Earth and Sky
The staircase that links to the lap pool below also leads upward to a quiet rooftop perch. This observatory-like space offers views of the stars through filtered timber light, extending the experience of the home beyond its physical footprint.
A Place to Reflect
House of Sound and Sky is more than a home. It is a retreat. A place where sound, structure, and sky come together to inspire calm, connection, and creativity.
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Location: Viewbank, VIC
Type: Alteration & Addition
Service Tier: Full Scope
Discreetly tucked behind a mid-century home, this light-filled addition balances flexibility, storage, and retreat. A double-height rumpus room anchors family life, while a sculpted dormer offers a quiet space to reflect and look back toward the garden.
A Quiet Addition With a Big Impact
Set behind the original roofline, Garden Loft respects the character of the mid-century home while opening new possibilities for the family. The rear addition introduces a double-height rumpus room without altering the home’s appearance from the street.
Space to Gather and Grow
At the centre of the design is a flexible rumpus room, connected to the garden by a small set of steps that allow inside and outside to flow as one. A raised threshold becomes the perfect place for a built-in daybed, creating a cosy spot for quiet moments within the active core of the home.
A Loft for Looking Back
Above the rumpus, the dormer carves out a tucked-away loft. This upper-level space offers a peaceful retreat for reading or rest, with gentle sightlines that keep it connected to the backyard below.
Storage That Blends In
Behind the clean lines and minimal detailing lies a clear commitment to function. Custom joinery keeps games, toys, and essentials neatly organised, while a new attic above an existing bedroom adds further storage without taking up valuable floor space.
Year-Round Liveability
To the north, a covered outdoor area allows the family to enjoy the seasons while staying protected from sun and rain. This understated yet considered addition enhances the home’s liveability while preserving its original charm and character.
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Location: Collingwood, VIC
Type: Alteration
Service Tier: Smart Start
A finely tuned front-of-home renovation that carves generosity from constraint. By rethinking space rather than adding to it, this project offers a calming threshold and a light-filled workspace, enhancing daily rituals without expanding the footprint.
A Pause at the Door
The existing hallway, once just 900 millimetres wide, gave little space to breathe or arrive. By borrowing area from an adjacent room, the new entry sequence now offers clarity and calm. Timber battens add warmth and rhythm, a hidden cabinet conceals the electrical board, and soft lighting creates a gentle sense of welcome.
Light and Purpose
What was once a dark, underused spare room is now a flexible home office that invites light and focus. A west-facing skylight animates the space throughout the day, while carefully integrated joinery introduces function and flow.
Built-In Layers
The new office space weaves in shelving, storage, and a daybed in one unified gesture. Hidden compartments and clean lines ensure the room remains open and adaptable, ready to shift between work, rest, and reflection.
Less But Better
No square metres were added. Instead, the existing volume was studied and reshaped to better serve the family’s needs. This approach aligns the front of the home with the modern extension beyond, creating a more cohesive, liveable whole.
A Threshold With Intention
Threshold & Retreat is a study in small-scale transformation. It shows how rethinking the most modest spaces can bring clarity, comfort, and an entirely new rhythm to the everyday experience of home.
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Location: Pascoe Vale South, VIC
Type: Alteration
Service Tier: Room Works
This renovation restores the rhythm of a post-war home by opening it to light, air, and the garden beyond. A new kitchen deck and reworked bathroom bring ease and elegance, shaping a home that honours the past while supporting everyday rituals.
Restoring Rhythm and Light
A once-compartmentalised home is reimagined with warmth and purpose. The focus lies in careful restoration and quiet intervention, bringing new life to the kitchen and bathroom without compromising the original structure’s integrity.
Opening to the Garden
At the rear, a poorly built sunroom had blocked the home’s connection to the garden. Its removal reclaims the masonry walls and allows for a new outdoor deck that seamlessly extends the kitchen space. Morning light now flows into both the home and garden, creating a calming sense of openness.
A Kitchen With Purpose
Designed for someone who loves to cook, the new kitchen becomes a hub of activity and calm. It opens directly to the garden, creating a natural flow between meal preparation, dining, and time spent outdoors.
A Bathing Space for Stillness
The redesigned bathroom is wrapped in warm terracotta tiles, grounding the space with earthy tones. A deep Japanese bathtub offers a moment of pause, while a reconfigured shower layout improves comfort and usability.
Where Old and New Meet
This renovation balances respect for the home’s post-war origins with the needs of contemporary life. The result is a home that feels connected, nurturing, and attuned to its inhabitants and their daily rituals.
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