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 a suburban, Westchester, New York home with views towards the entry, main staircase, atrium, kitchen, dining and living room. Two stone pillars anchor the design. Peter Krupenye Photographer

David Dietrich
シャーロットにあるラグジュアリーな中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、淡色木目調キャビネット、御影石カウンター、黒いキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、ガラス扉のキャビネット、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、ベージュの床) の写真

ワシントンD.C.にあるラグジュアリーな巨大なコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (緑のキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、ダブルシンク、中間色木目調キャビネット、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング) の写真

ダラスにあるラグジュアリーな巨大なコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、大理石カウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床) の写真

Finding a sink and a half with an integrated drain board saved the need to have a drain rack on the counter at all times.
バンクーバーにあるラグジュアリーな中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング) の写真

Sink: Pro Flo Single Bowl; undermound; stainless steel; 30x17 3/4 Valve: Delta Cassidy Pull Down; stainless steel Ceiling: Behr Semi Transparent Exterior Stain Cabinets: Paint Grade; Match Danver; semi gloss Countertops: Granite; Santa Cecilia; flat polish; 3cm Backsplash: Costa Rei Interlooking Accent 12x20; Oromiele Refrigerator: GE Top-Freezer Refrigerator; stianless steel Microwave: GE Profile Series countertop micro; stainless steel Warming Drawer: GE Profile Series 30"; stainless steel Roll Up Shutters: Texas Sun & Shade/ Rollac Shutter of Texas; Medium Bronze

Decora Leyden Maple Cobblestone Cabinets
ボストンにあるラグジュアリーな中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (ダブルシンク、青いキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、落し込みパネル扉のキャビネット、御影石カウンター、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、茶色い床、グレーのキャビネット) の写真

バンクーバーにあるラグジュアリーな広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、濃色木目調キャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、ライムストーンの床、ベージュの床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

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 kitchen is located on the water in surburan New York, Westchester County. The kitchen features a center island with dining, flat-panel cabinets, stainless steel appliances, pendant lighting and a stone wall that matches the facade of the home. Peter Krupenye Photographer

ダラスにあるラグジュアリーな巨大なコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、大理石カウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床) の写真

Detail of Westchester County kitchen featuring wine storage, view to interior court, and secondary sink. Peter Krupenye Photographer
ニューヨークにあるラグジュアリーな広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、御影石カウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、ドロップインシンク、ライムストーンの床) の写真

ダラスにあるラグジュアリーな巨大なコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (アンダーカウンターシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、大理石カウンター、グレーのキッチンパネル、ボーダータイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床) の写真