As is common in a suburban extension, the constraints (site features, solar orientation, existing house layout) defined the architectural opportunities to be explored. With a brief that requested a new living area connected to the existing kitchen, two bedrooms and associated wet areas, the extension was tested in models and drawings before a final plan was developed.

Designed for a modest construction budget, the house has few 'tricks' and instead is designed with well-proportioned spaces that carefully open to the sky and the garden. The master bedroom and en suite on the north-west corner of the house, for example, have a row of hooded windows that face an existing mature jacaranda tree while obscuring adjacent houses and sheds.