Darling Indicate Past Times Alexander &Co.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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Working inside heritage walls together with alongside a express footprint, Alexander &Co have transformed a Victorian cottage inward Darling Point, Sydney, into a richly personalised 'house of rooms' for a identify unit of measurement of five. Wanting to regain the spirit of the building, rather than exactly recreate its history, Alexander &Co sought to dismantle the components of a abode typical of the surrounding neighbourhood earlier scaling it dorsum to gibe the specifics of the site. With a novel contemporary floorplan, together with elements that describe from historic references alongside a focus on textured finishes together with the manus made, the resulting abode is beautiful inward its exploration of finding the contemporary together with grand inside what is historic together with compact.
The novel flooring programme included the relocation of stairs, rooms together with amenities every mo good every mo external works. In the absence of ‘open plan', the architects’ pursuit throughout was to exercise a story of rooms together with a abode inward which each inhabitant could discovery their ain usage, favourite nook or world arena. Alexander &Co catered to each parent's special needs for privacy together with adult space, along alongside ample amenity for their kids including divide rooms alongside desks, wardrobes together with play areas. The lower flooring rooms together with express garden render infinite for the children at both repast together with play times, every mo good every mo for the identify unit of measurement to operate at dissimilar times of the day.
Similarly, the involvement inward the textured, manus constructed together with materially robust spirit of the abode was a subject the architects maintained during the blueprint of this project. All surfaces convey been deliberately manus detailed together with finished from polished plaster together with painted tidelines to ceiling lining boards together with contemporary wall panelling.
In the kitchen, 2 pot railings together with calorie-free fittings inward corporation brass are encouraged to patina alongside time, reflecting the authenticity of cloth selections inside the home.
Alexander &Co too explored several historic references throughout including the application of traditional paved limestone floors inward the kitchen together with scullery, a grand cardinal stairwell together with light-well together with the hearth of the grand rooms every mo good every mo contemporary interpretations of traditional wall panelling shown throughout. Upstairs, the identify unit of measurement bath was designed every mo an abstract of a traditional winter-garden alongside steel-framed skylight together with timber ceiling panelling.
Showing enough of innovation, acre existence sympathetic to its surrounding heritage environment, this beautiful abode is detailed to experience valuable inside its small-scale footprint, acre however telling a grand internal story. Youthful but too reverential, Darling Point is a delicate, slightly feminine report inward the business office of the contemporary classic.
Project courtesy of Alexander &CO. together with v2com