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.

Jessie Preza
ジャクソンビルにある高級な広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなクラフトルーム (白い壁、テラコッタタイルの床、造り付け机、赤い床) の写真

Interior Design & Styling | Erin Roberts
ニューヨークにある広い北欧スタイルのおしゃれなホームオフィス・書斎 (白い壁、カーペット敷き、暖炉なし、自立型机、黒い床) の写真

フィレンツェにある広いエクレクティックスタイルのおしゃれなクラフトルーム (白い壁、テラコッタタイルの床、暖炉なし、自立型机、赤い床) の写真

ワシントンD.C.にあるラグジュアリーな広いシャビーシック調のおしゃれな書斎 (茶色い壁、カーペット敷き、標準型暖炉、石材の暖炉まわり、自立型机、赤い床) の写真

Our Armadale residence was a converted warehouse style home for a young adventurous family with a love of colour, travel, fashion and fun. With a brief of “artsy”, “cosmopolitan” and “colourful”, we created a bright modern home as the backdrop for our Client’s unique style and personality to shine. Incorporating kitchen, family bathroom, kids bathroom, master ensuite, powder-room, study, and other details throughout the home such as flooring and paint colours. With furniture, wall-paper and styling by Simone Haag. Construction: Hebden Kitchens and Bathrooms Cabinetry: Precision Cabinets Furniture / Styling: Simone Haag Photography: Dylan James Photography

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広い北欧スタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (白い壁、濃色無垢フローリング、造り付け机、黒い床) の写真

The studio was opened-up with a new cathedral ceiling, new windows and re-designed electric lighting. The original wood-burning fireplace and quarry tile flooring were retained.

サンディエゴにある広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (茶色い壁、カーペット敷き、暖炉なし、自立型机、赤い床) の写真

ロンドンにある広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (白い壁、濃色無垢フローリング、自立型机、黒い床) の写真

Furniture is one of the items that make the office complete. You can add glamour and comfort in your office by buying high quality furniture which is now available at leading furniture stores. The furniture includes lounge chairs, tables and cabinets and can be bought from the red Lie Office Chairs and Affordable Office furniture.

Kate Nelle Photo
フェニックスにある広いモダンスタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (グレーの壁、濃色無垢フローリング、標準型暖炉、石材の暖炉まわり、自立型机、黒い床) の写真

Custom joinery, study desk with open book shelf and grey laminate cupboards with a printer hidden behind doors.
シドニーにある高級な広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (白い壁、濃色無垢フローリング、造り付け机、黒い床) の写真

シドニーにあるお手頃価格の広い北欧スタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (白い壁、濃色無垢フローリング、造り付け机、黒い床) の写真

ソルトレイクシティにある広いコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなホームオフィス・書斎 (ベージュの壁、磁器タイルの床、暖炉なし、自立型机、黒い床) の写真

Jessie Preza
ジャクソンビルにある高級な広いビーチスタイルのおしゃれなクラフトルーム (白い壁、テラコッタタイルの床、造り付け机、赤い床) の写真

Interior Design & Styling | Erin Roberts
ニューヨークにある広い北欧スタイルのおしゃれなホームオフィス・書斎 (白い壁、カーペット敷き、暖炉なし、自立型机、黒い床) の写真

New build residential property in Surrey, London.
ロンドンにある高級な広い北欧スタイルのおしゃれなアトリエ・スタジオ (白い壁、濃色無垢フローリング、暖炉なし、自立型机、黒い床) の写真

パリにある低価格の広いインダストリアルスタイルのおしゃれな書斎 (白い壁、カーペット敷き、暖炉なし、自立型机、黒い床) の写真