Period home
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Henry House
Henry House is a 140-year-old Victorian terrace house that has been refurbished and extended with a contemporary rear ground level extension. This Victorian is one of a pair of double-storey, single-fronted terraces that was originally built in 1878, and is part of the rich history of buildings that line this street in East Melbourne.
The house had undergone an earlier renovation by the previous tenants that widened the footprint of the rear ground level rooms to take advantage of the full width of the narrow site. However this earlier renovation still lacked a strong connection with the backyard which had succumbed to overgrowth over time.
The current owners wanted the rear to open up to the garden and have a functional outdoor liv... More
Project • By Vita Architecture • Private Houses
The Meadows
The brief called for increasing the amount of natural daylight across the house and reconfiguring the layout in order to create a functional and beautiful set of spaces. In turn, the house was gutted, opened out to create open plan living and open rooms flooded with natural daylight.
The original property was a double height billiard hall built in the 1870s. Over the years, it had seen multiple owners who had cut and carved the space into a series of interconnected dark rooms and corridors. Loaded with hidden charm, our response was to open the space back up.
Our specifications included a material palette of timbers and silestone is consistently spread across the house, with differing treatment to the silestone depending on it’s ap... More
Project • By Joshua Mulders Architects • Private Houses
Blinker House (Hunters Hill House)
The Blinker House is located within a heritage conservation area within the suburb of Hunters Hill, close to the centre of Sydney. The site and surrounding properties are typically freestanding homes on medium and larger sized garden blocks. The existing house is an exceptional example of an Australian period home circa 1927. A 1980’s renovation existed to the rear of the house which did not fit the current owner’s requirements and expectations of family moving into the future. The primary brief was to create a more modern, open plan layout to the rear with some modification to the existing internal bedrooms to the front. The neighbouring home has a position so that the entertainment area backs directly onto the rear of the subject property... More