Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

New for 2014: American Olean Laurel Heights Gray Summit 12 x 24 in a brick pattern on the floor and 12 x 18 on the wall, with 2 x 4 brick-joint mosaics on the wall.. Photo courtesy of American Olean.

a corner tub-shower provides for flexibility in use, with a custom two-sided enclosure opens the space to the colorful material palette of coral color tile, plywood, and matte laminate surfaces

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Pascal Otlinghaus

Il pavimento è, e deve essere, anche il gioco di materie: nella loro successione, deve istituire “sequenze” di materie e così di colore, come di dimensioni e di forme: il pavimento è un “finito” fantastico e preciso, è una progressione o successione. Nei abbiamo creato pattern geometrici usando le cementine esagonali.

Modern styled bathroom with ceiling beams and a 5-panel Shaker door

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Bring the babbling brook into your home with pebble accents in your shower.

Das Master Badezimmer befindet sich im oberen Stockwerk des Hauses. Der Entwurf des Waschtisches hat uns sehr viel Freude gemacht. Er besteht aus Altholzeiche, ist entsprechend behandelt, damit Wasserflecken dem Holz nichts anhaben können. Zwei Aufsatzwaschebcken von Villeroy & Boch sowie die englischen Armaturen tragen zu seiner Einzigartigkeit bei. Die Ablage sind wie der Waschtisch maß gefertigt.

For the bathroom, we gave it an updated yet, classic feel. This project brought an outdated bathroom into a more open, bright, and sellable transitional bathroom.