RESIDENTIAL | EXTENSION & RENOVATION
Cheyne Walk
A TREE TOP DREAM HOME
My Cheyne Walk clients are an active professional couple with two school aged children and a friendly Staffy dog. Their red brick house was built in the 1970s on the south corner of a leafy riverside cul-de-sac. These days the street is abuzz with kids playing between one another’s homes and local residents taking advantage of the surrounding amenities.
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With a desire to create their ideal home, my clients engaged myself and architect, Alec Whyte of Parry + Whyte Architects to design an extension of the floor plan to give themselves more living space and a pool to utilise the generous block size. They wanted to change the interior and exterior aesthetics of the home and allow more natural light in to brighten their living experience and modernise the 50 year old home.
Both clients are drawn to the contemporary and find luxury is best delivered in understated subtleties. Their primary aesthetic objective was to preserve sections of red brick to feature in the new design and introduce complementary materials of concrete and timber.
Colourful and textural accents create interest in furniture and fittings, with design elements forming striking silhouettes in pendant lighting and floor to ceiling internal door frames. They wanted their home to be comfortable and relaxed, to accommodate any number of neighbourhood kids at any given time, and to easily be all together enjoying family time or retreat to their own spaces.
Architectural design by Parry + Whyte Architects