Weather House is a bespoke home for a young, nature-loving family on a quintessentially compact Northcote block. Our clients Claire and Brent cherished the character of their century-old worker's cottage but required more considered space and flexibility in their home. Claire and Brent are camping enthusiasts, and in response their house is a love letter to the outdoors: a rich, durable environment infused with the grounded ambience of being in nature. From the street, the dark cladding of the sensitive rear extension echoes the existing cottage!s roofline, becoming a subtle shadow of the original house in both form and tone. As you move through the home, the double-height extension invites the climate and native landscaping inside at every turn. The light-bathed lounge, dining room and kitchen are anchored around, and seamlessly connected to, a versatile outdoor living area. A double-sided fireplace embedded into the house’s rear wall brings warmth and ambience to the lounge, and inspires a campfire atmosphere in the back yard. Championing tactility and durability, the material palette features polished concrete floors, blackbutt timber joinery and concrete brick walls. Peach and sage tones are employed as accents throughout the lower level, and amplified upstairs where sage forms the tonal base for the moody main bedroom. An adjacent private deck creates an additional tether to the outdoors, and houses planters and trellises that will decorate the home’s exterior with greenery. From the tactile and textured finishes of the interior to the surrounding Australian native garden that you just want to touch, the house encapsulates the feeling of being part of the outdoors; like Claire and Brent are camping at home. It is a tribute to Mother Nature, Weather House’s muse.

This home is in a rural area. The client was wanting a home reminiscent of those built by the auto barons of Detroit decades before. The home focuses on a nature area enhanced and expanded as part of this property development. The water feature, with its surrounding woodland and wetland areas, supports wild life species and was a significant part of the focus for our design. We orientated all primary living areas to allow for sight lines to the water feature. This included developing an underground pool room where its only windows looked over the water while the room itself was depressed below grade, ensuring that it would not block the views from other areas of the home. The underground room for the pool was constructed of cast-in-place architectural grade concrete arches intended to become the decorative finish inside the room. An elevated exterior patio sits as an entertaining area above this room while the rear yard lawn conceals the remainder of its imposing size. A skylight through the grass is the only hint at what lies below. Great care was taken to locate the home on a small open space on the property overlooking the natural area and anticipated water feature. We nestled the home into the clearing between existing trees and along the edge of a natural slope which enhanced the design potential and functional options needed for the home. The style of the home not only fits the requirements of an owner with a desire for a very traditional mid-western estate house, but also its location amongst other rural estate lots. The development is in an area dotted with large homes amongst small orchards, small farms, and rolling woodlands. Materials for this home are a mixture of clay brick and limestone for the exterior walls. Both materials are readily available and sourced from the local area. We used locally sourced northern oak wood for the interior trim. The black cherry trees that were removed were utilized as hardwood flooring for the home we designed next door. Mechanical systems were carefully designed to obtain a high level of efficiency. The pool room has a separate, and rather unique, heating system. The heat recovered as part of the dehumidification and cooling process is re-directed to maintain the water temperature in the pool. This process allows what would have been wasted heat energy to be re-captured and utilized. We carefully designed this system as a negative pressure room to control both humidity and ensure that odors from the pool would not be detectable in the house. The underground character of the pool room also allowed it to be highly insulated and sealed for high energy efficiency. The disadvantage was a sacrifice on natural day lighting around the entire room. A commercial skylight, with reflective coatings, was added through the lawn-covered roof. The skylight added a lot of natural daylight and was a natural chase to recover warm humid air and supply new cooled and dehumidified air back into the enclosed space below. Landscaping was restored with primarily native plant and tree materials, which required little long term maintenance. The dedicated nature area is thriving with more wildlife than originally on site when the property was undeveloped. It is rare to be on site and to not see numerous wild turkey, white tail deer, waterfowl and small animals native to the area. This home provides a good example of how the needs of a luxury estate style home can nestle comfortably into an existing environment and ensure that the natural setting is not only maintained but protected for future generations.

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.

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

ミネアポリスにあるラグジュアリーな小さなミッドセンチュリースタイルのおしゃれな浴室 (オープンシェルフ、黒いキャビネット、アルコーブ型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、マルチカラーのタイル、マルチカラーの壁、テラゾーの床、コンソール型シンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、黒い洗面カウンター) の写真

パリにあるお手頃価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな子供用バスルーム (インセット扉のキャビネット、ベージュのキャビネット、アンダーマウント型浴槽、一体型トイレ 、マルチカラーのタイル、セメントタイル、ベージュの壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、洗面台1つ、独立型洗面台) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

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.

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.

Karen Melvin
ミネアポリスにある広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (アンダーカウンター洗面器、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、中間色木目調キャビネット、木製洗面台、置き型浴槽、アルコーブ型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、ガラスタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床) の写真

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.

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

Karen Melvin
ミネアポリスにある広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (アンダーカウンター洗面器、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、中間色木目調キャビネット、木製洗面台、置き型浴槽、アルコーブ型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、ガラスタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床) の写真

Karen Melvin
ミネアポリスにある広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (アンダーカウンター洗面器、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、中間色木目調キャビネット、木製洗面台、置き型浴槽、アルコーブ型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、ガラスタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなマスターバスルーム (濃色木目調キャビネット、置き型浴槽、オープン型シャワー、一体型トイレ 、白いタイル、セラミックタイル、白い壁、テラゾーの床、オーバーカウンターシンク、木製洗面台、マルチカラーの床、開き戸のシャワー、ブラウンの洗面カウンター、ニッチ、洗面台1つ、フローティング洗面台) の写真