"Pastel", was designed with family at its core, combining refined architectural details with elegant interiors. A meticulously curated material palette and colour theme brings a contrasting visual rendition between robust and elegant, blending the bold addition of concrete elements with the warmth of natural timber detailing.
The kitchen and living area open onto a fully equipped alfresco perfect for the modern family lifestyle, providing ample backyard space for children to play.
This home is a testament of how clever design can combine great aesthetic value with all the space required for a premium lifestyle, scaled to a single level structure, Linear + Sophisticated + Bold.
This is Pastel.
This home's located in Bicton. It's a southern suburb of Perth and it's a beautiful leafy
green suburb. This block is especially located on a peppermint lined street which is quite
beautiful as long as you don't have to pick up the leaves. But also with close cafes nearby
and the river just down the road so you certainly start to integrate that within the design of the
home. So when designing this home we obviously wanted something that was going to be longevity
for the family so timeless in design and also suit their needs. They came in definitely wanting
a single-story home, easy maintenance, good for kids, family living, light and bright so the use
of natural light was really important for them and just keeping a really simple material palette.
I think there's this beautiful idea of living on one level and living through the spaces
and then seeing also those borrowed views through the spaces.
This site was really, we internalised all those views, you know we didn't have any distractions
outside of the site so it was all about the architecture of the site and the gardens and
the indoor-outdoor living and how they all interrelated. The style of this home is really
quite unique and in a single level home you want to create some beautiful interest and some street
appeal so as you walk up to the face of this home you've got this beautiful timber that just wraps
around it sort of hides the garage door it flows from outdoors in. So we walk through the front
door and the timber follows us through into the home and then to the right is this beautiful
concrete roof that just stands out it flows again that's the ceiling of concrete from outside to in.
And that's bookended at the back of the home with the alfresco space where again you've got
this beautiful soft curved lines with the shadows playing on the footprint of the home.
It's quite beautiful.
Even when we're first designing the home with the architect as an interior designer I'm brought on
very early just to get an understanding on how the client lives and understanding their space
to make sure that the functionality of the inside is actually going to work. The architect and I
work very closely together and then when they're designing the home with all the beautiful curves
and the materials we like to reflect that internally so with the interior you can
see subtle hints of curves and softness which also reflects the architecture of the home.
It comes across still very textual and warm but not over the top. So the client definitely had
a brief with their materials they love concrete they love timber and they love texture so it was
actually quite easy coming up with a colour scheme and we just kept it really simple introduced some
beautiful sort of grid textual tiles that just gave it a point of difference and you know wasn't
down the typical track of what most people put. My favourite space is the kitchen I think it's
really simplistic but it also reflects the curves that the architecture has and it's really warm
and inviting and you can just imagine yourself with a family here cooking a beautiful dinner and
just really enjoying it. By opening up you know these beautiful doors they can flow indoor and
outdoor and entertain with all their friends and then the home can be broken down as well and
shut down into various zones so the young boys could be going to bed a bit earlier or you know
be in their space to play games and whatever but and separate from the adults so that was really
important as well. For the home I think the beauty of it is when they move in it's going to constantly
evolve probably in two years time as the family grows it will look different but the beauty of
this design is it will be timeless. All these homes are developed through this beautiful
level of collaboration it's with the designers that are involved the clients are really important
aspect to that because that's where the inspiration starts with their lifestyle
and then the team you know in the Urbane office are amazing and you know they'll put all those
elements together and bring it to fruition and always has to be this multidisciplinary approach
to collaboration because there's so many elements involved in creating a family space
so input from all those stakeholders is an important part of that process. It's all about
listening and if you're a good listener you can collect all this information and then
you know put the all those pieces of the puzzle together to create a beautiful home.
