This The Local Project video is sponsored by Cloudy Bay, first taste always.
The Greenhouse is an extension to a beautiful towering Federation Italianate home. The
house affords a beautiful view of the Derwent River and Hobart itself.
It's very close to the road but has a really beautiful historic
and established garden which sits on the southern side of the house.
It's got some really beautiful established trees, beautiful terraced sandstone retaining walls,
but also hand-built cubby house and chooks in the bottom of the yard as well.
The brief for this project was to build a new kitchen and dining room and living
space in a similar footprint to the previous 1980's glasshouse,
but also strangely, an ensuite and a walk-in robe on the upper level.
The two things were sort of incongruous to each other but
needed to be provided in this one new extension.
When you arrive at the home you actually come through the formal entry which is
the historic entry and through the main hall, and you tuck behind an existing
stair into what's more the service space. You walk into what's now the dining room.
Which connects you out to the veranda. And then you walk through that space into the kitchen
and actually another eating area to, a nook area with with another dining table. There's
a two-story void that sits over the dining room at the front to bring light down into the space.
The kitchen and dining room space open up to the rear courtyard but
they also open up to the front veranda as well via sliding doors.
The whole extension sits with a sandstone base which connects to
the front of the building in the garden by way of sandstone steps that go down.
The lower and the upper floor of the new extension are actually quite separate
programmatically. The lower floor is the kitchen dining the heart of the family living spaces,
but actually the upper floor is the main ensuite.
The
rear of the ensuite and robe open up to a two-story void which has the kitchen below.
The void is actually quite narrow so it's quite difficult for someone on the lower level to look
up and see you in the upper floor as well, but you can still talk to them if you need a cup of tea.
So the exterior of the Greenhouse is quite robust and so that will remain
quite consistent and not change over time but internally the materials chosen do have the
capacity to age and wear and soften over time so copper was chosen for the main island bench. The
timber on the floors is treated with a hard wax oil product which is barely perceptible
but maintains the timber in good condition and show the marks and wear and tear on the floor.
The furnishings all selected by the client are soft and generous
to offset the simplicity of detailing that's in the external skin of the building.
The home is filled with a lifetime of beautiful objects and they're all quite eclectic.
The new Greenhouse which is very rationally put together actually acts as a really
simple backdrop and highlights those beautiful collection of ornaments.
What I'm most proud about is that we worked really
closely with our clients to design them a home that they really love.
This The Local Project video is sponsored by Cloudy Bay.
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