2-story Inspiration

We would like to build a house inspired by the 1958 house next door. Ideally we will replicate the modernist style and create floor to ceiling windows upstairs & downstairs too. I love the way the house is accessed via the stairs up the side, entering into the upstairs kitchen living area. It is such an uplifting feeling to walk into an elevated view right in the heart of the home. We would hopefully have another living area downstairs too rather than a garage. The idea is to set the house back so we can have plenty of North-facing garden at the front to look out onto (and to give some privacy).

 

This house by renowned Melbourne Architect Robin Boyd is a fantastic benchmark for the sort of feel we would like to create. It is from the same era.

Another simple geometric floor-to-ceiling window house. If it were mine I would sink it into the landscape with plenty of planting!

More excellent  2-story simplicity (Robin Boyd again)

our new spot!

Here is the patch where we will soon be living. Its a lovely leafy block at the end of a dead-end street close to the creek.

Here it is from the back. It has a nice little elevation so we plan to build up and make the most of the view. The trees on the right of this picture are full of Bell Birds which make a distinctive rain-foresty call. I absloutely love the sound and it makes me feel like I am suddenly transported out of the heart of Melbourne into the bush.

The block was formerly used by the house next door as a big garden. Aparantly the original owners had cows grazing here. We have always joked that we need our own cow to fulfill the neverending milk requirements of our house of 5. I have plans for a in-ground trampoline however, which probably wouldn't mix well with a personal mobile milk suppling beast.