Clients had a large wasted space area upstairs and wanted to better utilize the area. They decided to add a large laundry area that provided tons of storage and workspace to properly do laundry. This family of 5 has deeply benefited from creating this more functional beautiful laundry space.

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.

ソルトレイクシティにある高級な広いトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家事室 (L型、ドロップインシンク、落し込みパネル扉のキャビネット、青いキャビネット、珪岩カウンター、ベージュキッチンパネル、磁器タイルのキッチンパネル、グレーの壁、磁器タイルの床、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、ベージュの床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

ヒューストンにあるラグジュアリーな巨大なトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな洗濯室 (コの字型、エプロンフロントシンク、落し込みパネル扉のキャビネット、青いキャビネット、白い壁、レンガの床、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、白い床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

サンフランシスコにあるお手頃価格の広いトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家事室 (ll型、エプロンフロントシンク、シェーカースタイル扉のキャビネット、グレーのキャビネット、クオーツストーンカウンター、白いキッチンパネル、クオーツストーンのキッチンパネル、白い壁、淡色無垢フローリング、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

Mud room perfect for everyone to organize after school and rainy days.
サンフランシスコにある高級な中くらいなビーチスタイルのおしゃれなランドリークローゼット (ll型、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、木材カウンター、ベージュの壁、スレートの床、グレーの床、茶色いキッチンカウンター) の写真

オマハにあるビーチスタイルのおしゃれなランドリールームの写真

We updated this laundry room by installing Medallion Silverline Jackson Flat Panel cabinets in white icing color. The countertops are a custom Natural Black Walnut wood top with a Mockett charging station and a Porter single basin farmhouse sink and Moen Arbor high arc faucet. The backsplash is Ice White Wow Subway Tile. The floor is Durango Tumbled tile.

ローリーにあるトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな洗濯室 (L型、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、マルチカラーのキッチンパネル、マルチカラーの壁、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、マルチカラーの床、白いキッチンカウンター、壁紙) の写真

シカゴにあるトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれなランドリールームの写真

Our clients were living in a Northwood Hills home in Dallas that was built in 1968. Some updates had been done but none really to the main living areas in the front of the house. They love to entertain and do so frequently but the layout of their house wasn’t very functional. There was a galley kitchen, which was mostly shut off to the rest of the home. They were not using the formal living and dining room in front of your house, so they wanted to see how this space could be better utilized. They wanted to create a more open and updated kitchen space that fits their lifestyle. One idea was to turn part of this space into an office, utilizing the bay window with the view out of the front of the house. Storage was also a necessity, as they entertain often and need space for storing those items they use for entertaining. They would also like to incorporate a wet bar somewhere! We demoed the brick and paneling from all of the existing walls and put up drywall. The openings on either side of the fireplace and through the entryway were widened and the kitchen was completely opened up. The fireplace surround is changed to a modern Emser Esplanade Trail tile, versus the chunky rock it was previously. The ceiling was raised and leveled out and the beams were removed throughout the entire area. Beautiful Olympus quartzite countertops were installed throughout the kitchen and butler’s pantry with white Chandler cabinets and Grace 4”x12” Bianco tile backsplash. A large two level island with bar seating for guests was built to create a little separation between the kitchen and dining room. Contrasting black Chandler cabinets were used for the island, as well as for the bar area, all with the same 6” Emtek Alexander pulls. A Blanco low divide metallic gray kitchen sink was placed in the center of the island with a Kohler Bellera kitchen faucet in vibrant stainless. To finish off the look three Iconic Classic Globe Small Pendants in Antiqued Nickel pendant lights were hung above the island. Black Supreme granite countertops with a cool leathered finish were installed in the wet bar, The backsplash is Choice Fawn gloss 4x12” tile, which created a little different look than in the kitchen. A hammered copper Hayden square sink was installed in the bar, giving it that cool bar feel with the black Chandler cabinets. Off the kitchen was a laundry room and powder bath that were also updated. They wanted to have a little fun with these spaces, so the clients chose a geometric black and white Bella Mori 9x9” porcelain tile. Coordinating black and white polka dot wallpaper was installed in the laundry room and a fun floral black and white wallpaper in the powder bath. A dark bronze Metal Mirror with a shelf was installed above the porcelain pedestal sink with simple floating black shelves for storage. Their butlers pantry, the added storage space, and the overall functionality has made entertaining so much easier and keeps unwanted things out of sight, whether the guests are sitting at the island or at the wet bar! The clients absolutely love their new space and the way in which has transformed their lives and really love entertaining even more now!

タンパにあるビーチスタイルのおしゃれなランドリールームの写真

The stacked washer and dryer are a compact solution for a tight space. The heat pump dryer us ductless, saving energy and money.
サンフランシスコにあるお手頃価格の小さなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家事室 (I型、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、グレーのキッチンパネル、磁器タイルのキッチンパネル、グレーの壁、クッションフロア、上下配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、茶色い床、黄色いキッチンカウンター) の写真

Polytec Createc New Ultra White Gloss Melamine Doors, with 20mm Caesarstone Snow Benchtop
ニューカッスルにあるお手頃価格の中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれなランドリールーム (左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機) の写真

ポートランドにある中くらいなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな洗濯室 (I型、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、グレーのキャビネット、白い壁、スレートの床、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、茶色い床、グレーのキッチンカウンター) の写真

I'll do laundry in here all day.
コロンバスにある高級な中くらいなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな洗濯室 (I型、ドロップインシンク、落し込みパネル扉のキャビネット、黒いキャビネット、人工大理石カウンター、白い壁、セラミックタイルの床、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、マルチカラーの床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

This is a photo of a mudroom with a dog washing station. Built by ULFBUILT - Vail contractors.
デンバ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家事室 (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、赤いキッチンパネル、セラミックタイルのキッチンパネル、白い壁、ベージュの床、黒いキッチンカウンター) の写真

シドニーにあるラグジュアリーな小さなトランジショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家事室 (コの字型、シングルシンク、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、グレーの壁、セラミックタイルの床、上下配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、茶色い床、白いキッチンカウンター) の写真

ボストンにあるお手頃価格の小さなトラディショナルスタイルのおしゃれな家事室 (ll型、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、ステンレスカウンター、オレンジの壁、無垢フローリング、左右配置の洗濯機・乾燥機、茶色い床、マルチカラーのキッチンカウンター) の写真