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The designing of the new Display Home, to be built at 48 Langdon Drive at Mernda Villages, Mernda has given Davis Sanders Homes the opportunity to showcase our custom design capabilities and demonstrate how some of the challenges of a small sloping site can be addressed economically, without compromising the floorplan. This 448m2 block, with its 1.4 metres of fall across the block, required a Display Home that could be reproduced by clients on their own sloping site. For that reason the home was designed in three separate sections so that each section could be moved up or down as the slope of the block required. This eye catching home with retro styling certainly gets your attention. With a colour scheme of brilliant red, shining black, vivid orange, charcoal and white, the homes vibrant palate certainly gets your attention as soon as you walk through the front door. The orange striated angled wall of the entry foyer gives you a hint of things to come without being over powering. The formal living room is located off the entry foyer and addresses a private court yard via French doors to the front of the home. Moving through the home, the central passageway directs you past 4 excellent sized bedrooms, main with walk through robe and ensuite, main bathroom and separate powder room. These bathrooms with their sticking colour schemes and textured high gloss tiles create outstanding points of interest within the home. A central stair case takes you up to the family room, meals area and kitchen which all open out to the undercover outdoor alfresco. The home has an abundance of light and open feel as all these areas address the garden and alfresco. The meals area and alfresco have a vaulted ceiling which not only adds interest and creates a feeling of space it also adds light and warm to this north facing aspect of the home. The kitchen combines vivid red 2pak overhead cupboards with a shiny black and red glass tiled splash back and stone benchtop in white all flanked by a feature wall to the laundry and walk in pantry. Davis Sanders Homes

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The faux marble tile we used in the master bath shower gives a high end look with a low cost price tag. The shower niche is great for storage space and is topped with a pop of blue herringbone glass mosaic. Custom glass shower enclosure, brushed nickle rain-head and fixtures, and a foot niche finish the space perfectly.

Full Bathroom remodel. All new tile, shower and tub.

There was no external window in this bathroom, so we used bright orange glass to give this bathroom a clean fresh feeling. The custom-made wall cabinets don't need handles because the mirror door overlaps the cabinet. They provide masses of storage space. We often put automatic lights and glass shelves in these cabinets.

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Bathroom remodel with espresso stained cabinets, granite and slate wall and floor tile. Cameron Sadeghpour Photography

Built in 1925, this 15-story neo-Renaissance cooperative building is located on Fifth Avenue at East 93rd Street in Carnegie Hill. The corner penthouse unit has terraces on four sides, with views directly over Central Park and the city skyline beyond. The project involved a gut renovation inside and out, down to the building structure, to transform the existing one bedroom/two bathroom layout into a two bedroom/three bathroom configuration which was facilitated by relocating the kitchen into the center of the apartment. The new floor plan employs layers to organize space from living and lounge areas on the West side, through cooking and dining space in the heart of the layout, to sleeping quarters on the East side. A glazed entry foyer and steel clad “pod”, act as a threshold between the first two layers. All exterior glazing, windows and doors were replaced with modern units to maximize light and thermal performance. This included erecting three new glass conservatories to create additional conditioned interior space for the Living Room, Dining Room and Master Bedroom respectively. Materials for the living areas include bronzed steel, dark walnut cabinetry and travertine marble contrasted with whitewashed Oak floor boards, honed concrete tile, white painted walls and floating ceilings. The kitchen and bathrooms are formed from white satin lacquer cabinetry, marble, back-painted glass and Venetian plaster. Exterior terraces are unified with the conservatories by large format concrete paving and a continuous steel handrail at the parapet wall. Photography by www.petermurdockphoto.com

Family bathroom was modernised but the 1960's feel remains. Dark matt vertical tiles contrast with small scale white hexagonal mosaics. Photo: Julia Hamson

This home renovation turned out to be our crowning jewel! It's absolutely incredible. Be sure to look at the before/after pictures.

Making way for a large beam for the first floor made this washroom a little tricky to plan. The vanity is raised on top of the space and eventually becomes a seat in the shower. The little alcove was perfect for towel storage.