SERVICE
Design
LOCATION
Carnegie
Considered dialogue between family lifestyle and contemporary rigour
Conceived as a considered dialogue between family lifestyle and contemporary rigour, this Carnegie residence demonstrates what is possible when material honesty drives every design decision.
The street facade announces its intentions clearly, recycled red brick anchors the ground plane, warm and tactile against the crisp geometry of charcoal vertical-clad cladding above. A timber picket boundary, modest in scale but carefully detailed, mediates between the public realm and a home that rewards closer inspection. The double garage sits discreetly to one side, refusing to dominate.
Inside, the planning is assured. A ground-floor master suite with walk-in robe and ensuite, finished in richly veined stone with brass tapware and a skylight-washed ceiling, provides a private retreat well away from the home's social heart. That heart beats in a generous open-plan kitchen, dining and living zone where polished concrete floors and the exposed brick feature wall create an almost industrial warmth. The Tundra Grey stone kitchen island anchors the space, its honed surface echoing the tones of the ensuite beyond. Sliding glazed walls dissolve the boundary to a covered pergola and entertaining terrace.
Upstairs, three children's bedrooms share a family bathroom finished entirely in terrazzo, the aggregate warm and speckled, pairing beautifully with vertical white subway tile above the datum line. A separate bathroom serves the first floor with marble-look stone and brushed brass, a quieter but no less resolved palette.
Throughout, the house resists the impulse to over-specify. Spotted gum floors in the upper levels, hydronic slab heating below and cavity sliders preserving acoustic separation.
