Princes Street House demonstrates how strategic, light-touch interventions can transform the experience of a home.
Working within a modest budget, the scope was confined to a redesign of the main bedroom suite and a subtle reworking of the living spaces to strengthen their connection to the existing Japanese garden. The result is a design that celebrates the small pleasures a home can offer us in our everyday lives.
Location: Mornington, VIC
Status: Completed, 2020
Builder: Bluline Projects
Photography: Peter Marko
The clients purchased this home to serve as a gathering point for their children and grandchildren. While the existing structure was sound, the layout was compartmentalised and ill-suited to large gatherings.
The design process began by testing significant interventions, including a major extension and a detached rear studio, to test the site’s full potential, but these initial concept designs ultimately highlighted the value of working within the existing footprint.
The plan was reconfigured to create a more generous main bedroom suite that supports ageing in place, introducing wider circulation, a more functional bathroom arrangement, and moments of delight through a curved shower and a circular skylight.
Blackbutt joinery, brass handles and tapware, and softly textured bathroom surfaces enrich the everyday rituals of living, lending even the most ordinary moments a quiet sense of beauty.