This renovation is so rad! It looks like a completely different home! Lucky homeowners!

Thank you for your thoughts Austere the structural changes were kept to a minimum and it actually resulted in being a very profitable first up project for the client, in a nice but not overly expensive south east suburb of Melbourne. The client has gone on to flip many homes since.

I'll be the toned down person . The 'outside' is brilliant -- the corten , the angles , the wooden poles , it adds to everything ! Even the kitchen is a step above a lot -- it has style and texture and a variety of colours and materials , and I love the wooden light and breakfast bar 'cap' and table . Then there is the pool shots , and that side of the house looks like a school building . You can call it trendy or industrial or whatever you like , but seriously , you couldn't have spent $50k more and added a variety of materials and tones and 2 or 3 'juts' in the walls ? Okay , I am probably weird , and own some commercial buildings , and I go out of my way to add some style and character to them , using all the tricks you've used on the other side -- even commercial buildings shouldn't be square concrete boxes IMO , and yet you do exactly that to a high end house ? Each to their own , but I'd have more 'fun' on that side if that was me .

Thanks Kate. It would be cheaper to knock down in most cases but in this case we had to build on the original footprint because of the conservation area which created so many restrictions. The Council even made an issue of the flower garden at the front because of the slight change in the soil level!