For Melbourne design studio Courageous New Eco, a very good residence ought to inform a narrative about the one that lives there.
So when it got here to renovating this Brunswick off-the-plan house, creating new areas the place the proprietor may showcase their love of music was a key a part of the transient.
As a part of the Balfe Park Lane advanced designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects, the house was considerably of an ideal ‘clean canvas.’
‘It was properly constructed with beautiful architectural design options. It was a larger-than-average dimension that achieved a excessive degree of compliance within the Livable Design Requirements, and it had a phenomenal leafy outlook with a big balcony dealing with Balfe Park,’ says Courageous New Eco founder and design director Megan Norgate.
The interiors simply wanted a extra private contact.
The proprietor had a ‘busy however organised’ assortment of objects and electrical music gear — from DJ decks to audio system — that prompted Courageous New Eco to create a customized floor-to-ceiling joinery wall in the lounge. Made by Auld Design from eco-certified blackbutt, this timber unit options a mixture of open and hid sections, maintaining cluttered objects like energy factors and cords out of view.
The unit additionally helps delineate the residing house from the kitchen (with out overpowering 70-square-footprint of the house) and features a built-in bench seat clad in a playful tartan material.
Megan provides, ‘The bench gives a peaceable view out to the park and prompts a spot for a conversational triangle with folks seated on the couch and armchair.’
Different intelligent space-saving options of the renovation embrace a fold-down Murphy mattress hid right into a wall of joinery within the second bed room; and a nook behind the entrance door that serves as a work-from-home house.
All these particulars are completed in the identical heat timber, which gives a newfound sense of texture and character to the interiors.
Megan says a collection of discreet pops of color like deep teal and mandarin add to the ‘lived-in’ model of the house — which now looks like a personalized and full house!
