Inside a Stunning Beach House Inspired by Wabi-Sabi Living (House Tour)

This The Local Project video is sponsored by Dulux Colour Forecast, celebrating 25 years of trend forecasting. This is a beautiful part of Australia. This site has had many incarnations and we stand on the shoulders of many who were here before us, including the traditional owners, the Gubbi Gubbi people. My name's Frank Macchia, I'm the designer of Boomba, the home that we're in here. We're located in Little Cove, Noosa Heads. It is a magical site. We are literally bordered by the green lush of the National Park on the eastern side and a magnificent bay ocean with world-class surfing points on the northern side. We wanted to make sure that we didn't dominate this site. We wanted to make sure that we did something that respected everything that was here before. We needed to make sure that the home was private, secure, nurturing, comfortable, as well as being open and connected to this site. There were challenges with that because we are on a prominent corner and there are a lot of tourists who park here and are here every day. So there was a number of techniques we used or ideas that we had to keep this home discreet. One of it was to layer it within the site. The second idea was to minimise the palette, to keep the palette very, very simple and not have too many tricky elements that are jarring and protruding. The landscaping for this home plays a very critical role because on the one hand we want to feel connected to the magic of the environment that we're around, but on the other hand we want to have a sense of feeling private within our own retreat. So it's a doing exactly what it needs to do. There were many influences for the design of Boombah Home. Fortuitously during the design process, Andrew and Catherine went on a holiday to Sri Lanka and stayed in some of Geoffrey Barwar's homes. This gave them the confidence when they came back to create a pull-apart home. There's a series of pavilions and the pavilions are connected by either open courtyards, linkways or verandas, partially closed, partially opened, open to sky or glass. We've got the perfect climate here to do that in Noosa. The other added bonus of doing this is that these linkways, these courtyards become extra rooms that can be utilised. The living pavilion that we're in at the moment has big panels of glass sliding doors that just disappear and it looks like an open three-sided pavilion. Throughout the day, through different times of the year, you can choose how much you've shut down and how much you open up. But the real magic in this house is the interplay and the dance between the dark and the light. We've had a great opportunity here to elevate the main part of this house above the vegetation so we could get the east and the northern light coming in and at the same time, by keeping the pallet dark and by having lots of timber screens that act as a veil, we're able to orchestrate the light in a way that is quite profound. The materiality of the home is quite minimal. We've used natural materials such as timber, which we stained dark, concrete, which was also stained dark, and a lot of our fixtures and fittings have been hand-built on-site with copper. The selection of these materials were made also with an appreciation for the Wabi Sabi idea of the material becoming more beautiful as time goes on. And the hope is that this home then integrates into the site more and more over the years. What I'm most proud of with this home is it has become what it was intended to become, a space for a family to connect and to come together and share wonderful moments on one of the best sites in the country. This The Local Project video is sponsored by the 2024 Dulux Colour Forecast. The Dulux Colour Forecast for 2024 comprises three emotive palettes inspired by a desire to convey warmth, to find joy in nostalgic references, and to revel in creative storytelling. With its rich sun-baked hues, the Solstice palette is inspired by the sun as a life force to evoke feelings of strength and joy. The Muse palette strikes a balance between nostalgia and contemporary design, celebrating iconic design details from the 1960s through to the 80s. And the Journey palette acknowledges the power of culture, travel and storytelling, with a nod to eclectic bohemian charm. Dulux Colour Forecast, proudly celebrating 25 years of trend forecasting.