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Mihaly Slocombe
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.
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Increation
With the teenager of the house needing space for his musical instrumentss and space to play we carefully considered the structure of the practice room.
Rossington Architecture
Rien van Rijthoven
Contemporary living room in San Francisco with white walls.
Contemporary living room in San Francisco with white walls.
Corynne Pless
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Design ideas for an industrial storage and wardrobe in New York with light hardwood floors.
Design ideas for an industrial storage and wardrobe in New York with light hardwood floors.
Studio Lagom
Inspiration for a mid-sized asian open concept living room in Other with white walls, black floor and concrete floors.
Markay Johnson Construction
Located on a beautiful corner lot of just over one acre, this sumptuous home presents Country French styling – with leaded glass windows, half-timber accents, and a steeply pitched roof finished in varying shades of slate. Completed in 2006, the home is magnificently appointed with traditional appeal and classic elegance surrounding a vast center terrace that accommodates indoor/outdoor living so easily. Distressed walnut floors span the main living areas, numerous rooms are accented with a bowed wall of windows, and ceilings are architecturally interesting and unique. There are 4 additional upstairs bedroom suites with the convenience of a second family room, plus a fully equipped guest house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Equally impressive are the resort-inspired grounds, which include a beautiful pool and spa just beyond the Builder: Markay Johnson Construction
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Located on a beautiful corner lot of just over one acre, this sumptuous home presents Country French styling – with leaded glass windows, half-timber accents, and a steeply pitched roof finished in varying shades of slate. Completed in 2006, the home is magnificently appointed with traditional appeal and classic elegance surrounding a vast center terrace that accommodates indoor/outdoor living so easily. Distressed walnut floors span the main living areas, numerous rooms are accented with a bowed wall of windows, and ceilings are architecturally interesting and unique. There are 4 additional upstairs bedroom suites with the convenience of a second family room, plus a fully equipped guest house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Equally impressive are the resort-inspired grounds, which include a beautiful pool and spa just beyond the center terrace and all finished in Connecticut bluestone. A sport court, vast stretches of level lawn, and English gardens manicured to perfection complete the setting.
Photographer: Bernard Andre Photography
Elise Landscapes & Nursery, LLC
Photo of an expansive traditional backyard patio in New York with no cover.
mckimm residential design
Photo: Derek Swalwell
Photo of a large modern kitchen/dining combo in Melbourne with grey walls and cork floors.
Photo of a large modern kitchen/dining combo in Melbourne with grey walls and cork floors.
Designed 2 Sell
Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional formal enclosed living room in Richmond with white walls and light hardwood floors.
Roundhouse
Roundhouse matt lacquer Urbo handleless bespoke kitchen. Bespoke colourblocked glass splashback. Worksurfaces in polished Silestone Altair. Siemens appliances. Westins extractor. Dornbracht single-lever mixer tap in polished chrome. Blanco stainless steel undermount sink. Storage cabinet in vertical Walnut random veneer.
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Thomas Kuoh
This is an example of a traditional formal open concept living room in San Francisco with white walls, dark hardwood floors, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and no tv.
This is an example of a traditional formal open concept living room in San Francisco with white walls, dark hardwood floors, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and no tv.
Hobsons Choice
bulthaup b1 kitchen with island and corner barter arrangement. Exposed brickwork add colour and texture to the space ensuring the white kitchen doesn't appear too stark.
Darren Chung
Mihaly Slocombe
The kitchen connects easily to the adjacent living spaces. Photo by Peter Bennetts
Design ideas for a large contemporary open concept living room in Melbourne with white walls, concrete floors and no fireplace.
Design ideas for a large contemporary open concept living room in Melbourne with white walls, concrete floors and no fireplace.
South Coast Building Design
You’ll always be on holidays here!
Designed for a couple nearing retirement and completed in 2019 by Quine Building, this modern beach house truly embraces holiday living.
Capturing views of the escarpment and the ocean, this home seizes the essence of summer living.
In a highly exposed street, maintaining privacy while inviting the unmistakable vistas into each space was achieved through carefully placed windows and outdoor living areas.
By positioning living areas upstairs, the views are introduced into each space and remain uninterrupted and undisturbed.
The separation of living spaces to bedrooms flows seamlessly with the slope of the site creating a retreat for family members.
An epitome of seaside living, the attention to detail exhibited by the build is second only to the serenity of it’s location.
Fabrizia Frezza Architecture & Interiors
THE BOOK: MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURE
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The Stone Man
Jim Schmid
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard patio in Charlotte with an outdoor kitchen, natural stone pavers and a roof extension.
Design ideas for a large traditional backyard patio in Charlotte with an outdoor kitchen, natural stone pavers and a roof extension.
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