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.

Brian Patterson
シドニーにあるラグジュアリーな小さなモダンスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (ドロップインシンク、フラットパネ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、ベージュキッチンパネル、石スラブのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング) の写真

Stainless steel appliances and classic cottage-style accents were used throughout and create an overall rustic, yet modern aesthetic.
トロントにあるラグジュアリーな広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (エプロンフロントシンク、フラットパネ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、ベージュキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

A traditional Georgian home receives an incredible transformation with an addition to expand the originally compact kitchen and create a pathway into the family room and dining area, opening the flow of the spaces that allow for fluid movement from each living space for the young family of four. Taking the lead from the client's desire to have a contemporary and edgier feel to their home's very classic facade, House of L worked with the architect's addition to the existing kitchen to design a kitchen that was incredibly functional and gorgeously dramatic, beckoning people to grab a barstool and hang out. Glossy macassar ebony wood is complimented with lacquered white cabinets for an amazing study in contrast. An oversized brushed nickel hood with polished nickel banding makes a presence on the feature wall of the kitchen. Brushed and polished nickel details are peppered in the landscape of this room, including the cabinets in the second island, a storage cabinet and automated hopper doors by Hafele on the refrigeration wall and all of the cabinet hardware, supplied and custom sized by Rajack. White quartz countertops by Hanstone in the Bianco Canvas colorway float on all the perimeter cabinets and the secondary island and creates a floating frame for the Palomino Quartzite that is a highlight in the kitchen and lends an organic feel to the clean lines of the millwork. The backsplash area behind the rangetop is a brick patterned mosaic blend of stone and glass, while surrounding walls have a layered sandstone tile that lend an incredible texture to the room. The light fixture hanging above the second island is by Wells Long and features faceted metal polygons with an amber gold interior. Woven linen drapes at window winks at the warmer tones in the room with a lustrous sheen that catches the natural light filtering in. The rift and sawn cut white oak floors are 8" planks that were fitted and finished on site to match the existing floor in the family and dining rooms. The clients were very clear on the appliances they needed the kitchen to accommodate. In addition to the vast expanses of wall space that were gained with the kitchen addition the larger footprint allowed for two sizeable islands and a host of cooking amenities, including a 48" rangetop, two double ovens, a warming drawer, and a built-in coffee maker by Miele and a 36" Refrigerator and Freezer and a beverage drawer by Subzero. A fabulous stainless steel Kallista sink by Mick De Giulio's series for the company is fitted in the first island which serves as a prep area, flanked by an Asko dishwasher to the right. A Dorenbracht faucet is a strong compliment to the scale of the sink. A smaller Kallista stainless sink is centered in the second island which has a secondary burner by Miele for overflow cooking. Jason Miller, Pixelate

Photographer: Aaron Czeszynsk
サンフランシスコにあるラグジュアリーな広いビーチ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、白いキャビネット、ベージュキッチンパネル、サブウェイ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

ジャクソンビルにあるラグジュアリーな広いカントリー風のおしゃれなキッチン (ダブルシンク、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、ガラスタイルのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、クッションフロア、茶色い床、ベージュのキッチンカウンター、オープンシェルフ) の写真

Architect: Sharratt Design & Company, Photography: Jim Kruger, LandMark Photography, Landscape & Retaining Walls: Yardscapes, Inc.
ミネアポリスにあるラグジュアリーな広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (エプロンフロントシンク、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、パネルと同色の調理設備、御影石カウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、無垢フローリング、茶色い床) の写真

We expanded a formerly dark, small, outdated kitchen and made it open, bright and airy. The glass doors and open plate rack of the kitchen cabinets add depth, color and geometry to the room. The door knobs and cabinet hardware are round simple forms, a detail that echoes the round table and art form shapes on the walls.

Studioteka custom designed this white, minimalist kitchen with warm marble countertops and a matching backsplash. The sleek integrated finger pulls on the cabinets as well as the refrigerator and freezer were custom made to measure based on our client's actual grip. And a special feeding tray for a beloved feline friend completes the space!

シドニ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 (ダブルシンク、フラットパネ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、ベージュキッチンパネル、磁器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、グレーのキッチンカウンター、表し梁) の写真

Studioteka custom designed this white, minimalist kitchen with warm marble countertops and a matching backsplash. The sleek integrated finger pulls on the cabinets as well as the refrigerator and freezer were custom made to measure based on our client's actual grip. And a special feeding tray for a beloved feline friend completes the space!

With clean, white countertops, white cabinets and stunning gold hardware accents, this space combines style with functionality.
ラグジュアリーな広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (エプロンフロントシンク、フラットパネ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、ベージュキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

Kitchen
マイアミにあるラグジュアリーな中くらいなモダン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、白いキャビネット、人工大理石カウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、黒い調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床、ベージュのキッチンカウンター) の写真

Architect: Sharratt Design & Company, Photography: Jim Kruger, LandMark Photography, Landscape & Retaining Walls: Yardscapes, Inc.
ミネアポリスにあるラグジュアリーな広いトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (エプロンフロントシンク、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、ベージュキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、御影石カウンター、パネルと同色の調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床) の写真

ハンブルクにあるラグジュアリーな広いモダンスタイルのおしゃれなキッチン (一体型シンク、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、コンクリートカウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、木材のキッチンパネル、白い調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床、グレーのキッチンカウンター) の写真

Full custom kitchen two-tone cabinets, with integrated appliances and lighting to match. Absolute stunner
ニューヨークにあるラグジュアリーな広いモダン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、白いキャビネット、ソープストーンカウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、石スラブのキッチンパネル、カラー調理設備、無垢フローリング、茶色い床、ベージュのキッチンカウンター) の写真

Photographer: Aaron Czeszynsk
サンフランシスコにあるラグジュアリーな広いビーチ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、白いキャビネット、ベージュキッチンパネル、サブウェイ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

ロサンゼルス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、フラットパネル扉のキャビネット、白いキャビネット、ベージュキッチンパネル、パネルと同色の調理設備、無垢フローリング) の写真

Dining room table and chairs by Roche Bobois, Houston Photo Credits; Jon McConnell Photography
ヒュー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 (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、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、石スラブのキッチンパネル、シルバーの調理設備、無垢フローリング) の写真