Coburg Frieze is a purified design that questions what’s really needed. The interwar property was transformed into a long-term family home that celebrates lifestyle and connection to the owners’ much-loved garden. Prioritising quality over quantity, the crafted extension adds just 25sqm of meticulously considered space to our clients’ home, honouring Dieter Rams’ enduring philosophy of “less, but better”. We reprogrammed the original floorplan to marry each room with its best functional match – allowing an enhanced flow of the home, while liberating budget for the extension’s shared spaces. Though modestly proportioned, the new communal areas are smoothly functional, rich in materiality, and tailored to our clients’ passions. Shielding the house’s rear from harsh western sun, a covered deck creates a protected threshold space to encourage outdoor play and interaction with the garden. This charming home is big on the little things; creating considered spaces that have a positive effect on daily life.

Thomas Leclerc
Photo of a mid-sized scandinavian master bathroom in Paris with furniture-like cabinets, light wood cabinets, an undermount tub, a curbless shower, blue tile, terra-cotta tile, white walls, terrazzo floors, a vessel sink, wood benchtops, multi-coloured floor, an open shower and brown benchtops.

Small traditional master bathroom in Melbourne with flat-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, an open shower, a wall-mount toilet, white tile, ceramic tile, white walls, terrazzo floors, wood benchtops, an open shower, brown benchtops, a niche, a single vanity, a floating vanity and vaulted.

Inspiration for a large beach style master bathroom in Sydney with dark wood cabinets, a freestanding tub, an open shower, a one-piece toilet, white tile, ceramic tile, white walls, terrazzo floors, a drop-in sink, wood benchtops, multi-coloured floor, a hinged shower door, brown benchtops, a niche, a single vanity and a floating vanity.

Rénovation complète d'un appartement haussmmannien de 70m2 dans le 14ème arr. de Paris. Les espaces ont été repensés pour créer une grande pièce de vie regroupant la cuisine, la salle à manger et le salon. Les espaces sont sobres et colorés. Pour optimiser les rangements et mettre en valeur les volumes, le mobilier est sur mesure, il s'intègre parfaitement au style de l'appartement haussmannien.

Salle de bain des enfants, création d'un espace lange à droite en prolongation de la baignoire. Nous avons remplacé la douche par une baignoire car la salle de bain était très grande et le toilette existant n'était pas souhaité par les clients.

This is an example of a mid-sized scandinavian master bathroom in Sydney with a freestanding tub, an open shower, a two-piece toilet, pink tile, ceramic tile, terrazzo floors, a wall-mount sink, multi-coloured floor, an open shower, a single vanity, a floating vanity, medium wood cabinets, pink walls, wood benchtops and brown benchtops.

Guest Bathroom. Photo by Dan Arnold
This is an example of a mid-sized modern 3/4 bathroom in Los Angeles with flat-panel cabinets, light wood cabinets, a corner shower, a one-piece toilet, blue tile, ceramic tile, blue walls, terrazzo floors, an undermount sink, quartzite benchtops, grey floor, a hinged shower door, brown benchtops, a single vanity and a floating vanity.

A bathroom renovation: 1. Optimised layout 2. Updated the decor and storage to a contemporary yet retro feel, that harmonises with this mid-century beachfront home.

Inspiration for a mid-sized scandinavian master bathroom in Sydney with medium wood cabinets, a freestanding tub, an open shower, a two-piece toilet, pink tile, ceramic tile, pink walls, terrazzo floors, a wall-mount sink, wood benchtops, multi-coloured floor, an open shower, brown benchtops, a single vanity and a floating vanity.

Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary kids bathroom in Portland with flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets, orange tile, ceramic tile, terrazzo floors, engineered quartz benchtops, black floor, a shower curtain, brown benchtops, a double vanity and a floating vanity.

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

This is an example of a mid-sized contemporary 3/4 bathroom in Other with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, a two-piece toilet, pink tile, pink walls, terrazzo floors, solid surface benchtops, pink floor, brown benchtops, a single vanity and a floating vanity.

A bathroom renovation that optimised layout and updated the decor to a contemporary yet retro feel, that harmonises with this mid-century beachfront home.

We gladly sank our teeth into this Ocean Grove project, converting a 90's ensuite into a modern day retreat. The toilet was sunken back into the window frame to help open the space, a 19mm terrazzo floor tile which was also used in their main kitchen/living space was used on the floor – paired with a handcrafted ceramic subway tile on the walls. The matt black tap-ware accentuates the sea of whiteness but nothing speaks more proudly than their (very heavy) custom made vanity and equally heavy cement counter top bowl.

Mid-sized modern 3/4 bathroom in Paris with beaded inset cabinets, light wood cabinets, an open shower, a wall-mount toilet, pink tile, pink walls, terrazzo floors, a drop-in sink, wood benchtops, grey floor, an open shower, brown benchtops, a single vanity, a floating vanity and wallpaper.

Design ideas for a small master wet room bathroom in London with beaded inset cabinets, medium wood cabinets, a freestanding tub, a wall-mount toilet, grey walls, terrazzo floors, a vessel sink, wood benchtops, grey floor, an open shower, brown benchtops, a double vanity and a freestanding vanity.

Small contemporary bathroom in Other with white cabinets, white tile, ceramic tile, white walls, terrazzo floors, wood benchtops, an open shower, a curbless shower, grey floor and brown benchtops.

This is an example of a mid-sized modern 3/4 bathroom in Nantes with a curbless shower, a wall-mount toilet, green tile, green walls, terrazzo floors, a drop-in sink, wood benchtops, white floor, an open shower, brown benchtops, a double vanity and a freestanding vanity.