David helps you navigate the complexities of renovating or building a new home.
David helps you navigate the complexities of renovating or building a new home.
The challenge
A collaborative project with Alwill Architecture, our clients required extensive works to their existing semi-detached dwelling to correct some unsympathetic additions completed in the 90’s. The existing upper floor provided two bedrooms, however ceilings heights and amenity were poor, made worse by convoluted circulation spaces and a poorly located stair. Bathrooms were too small for family use, and ceiling heights too low.
The solution
We proposed the removal of the majority of the existing rear addition and the construction of a new two storey addition. A centralised stair provides efficient access to two new bedrooms on the upper storey, each with ensuite bathroom.
At ground level an existing bathroom is retained and enlarged, while a new kitchen, living and dining area opens onto the existing rear garden. Stair voids and skylights bring much needed light and ventilation into the ground floor of the dwelling.
New north facing windows at the upper level are treated with sliding timber screens to soften this facade and provide privacy, while a Juliet balcony to the master bedroom capitalises on the leafy outlook to a public park at the rear.
In collaboration with Alwill Architecture
Status: DA Approved
Planning/Heritage: Damian O-Toole
Hydraulics: JDH