Room by Room Front of House The Kitchen Seaside Lounge Family Lounge The Bathrooms The Master Laundry Kids Bedrooms Outdoor Kitchen & Dining Pool and backyard
The Project The Land The Architect The Design Building Features The Build
Our Partners BUILDSTRONG DULUX Melteca Laminam CAESARSTONE BLUM OUTDURE VIDASPACE Viking Roofspec Rosenfeld Kidson Cavalier Bremworth KITCHEN HUB Schneider Electric TEAMTURF
 

DESIGN inspiration

Before we did any actual designing, we gathered a bunch of inspiration from Pinterest, Magazines and Architectural/designer blogs to help us define the look and feel of the house before we even started talking to the Architect. 

This stage in building should be one of the first things that we suggest anyone do, and is so essential! 

You really need to be sure you know what you like and don't like before you talk with your architect, and through creating Pinterest and mood boards you will get an understanding of reoccuring styles, colours, shapes and textures that you like to assist the architect in being able to accommodate your preferences.

 
 

DESIGN INSPIRATION BOARDS

OVERALL LOOK & FEEL

It’s important prior to your planning with the Architect to understand what your overall look and feel is that you are attracted to! Here are some of our initial sources of inspiration that helped guide the Architect

CLADDING

We have decided to go with a beautiful cedar from Rosenfeld Kidson & Co. With a slim profile of 75 mm on the garage portion of the house, and a wider profile of 110 mm on the main body of the house. Using two stains that are quite dark, but will be contrasted beautifully by the lush green bush that surrounds the house.

STONE WORK

Right from the beginning, Alex has been adamant that a ‘Stone Wall’ would be a prominent part of the house design, both externally and internally. We have done lot’s of research on types of stone and rock walls and how to make it reasonably affordable.

 

interior

The interior design of the house has been heavily inspired by our local surroundings. Being placed in the bush and taking the textural inspiration from the stone and clay cliffs at the local beach. Texture and colour scheme to work in the natural environment have been super important to get right.

kitchen design

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As the heart of the home, the Kitchen design is the central room of the house. We wanted to make a feature with coloured cabinetry and textured surfaces

colour inspiration

Deciding on a colour palette prior to making all of your design decisions is an absolute must-do! We were inspired by our local Island Bay surroundings to help draw together our final interior colour palette