Light, tactility and controlled openness recur throughout. A long, low street elevation balances slimline Petersen brick with anodised aluminium framing; deep vertical louvres sit ahead of broad picture windows, tempering a west-facing outlook while still allowing air to pass through. At the centre, a timber entry door is flanked by operable screens; the threshold is staged by a sculpture to one side and silver birches to the other.
Rob Mills captures that intention: “This is a house with a real sense of welcome. We chose the tactility of timber for the doorway; louvered on either side for light and air, and solid in the centre. A Bruce Armstrong sculpture sits to the left and a series of Silver Birch trees have been planted to the right. Nature, art and natural materials define the facade.”
This is a house with a real sense of welcome...Rob Mills
Inside, a white spiral stair coils beneath a circular skylight, its curved balustrade and timber treads turning circulation into a sculptural event. A second oculus softens the main bathroom, where pale stone, timber joinery and crisp black-framed mirrors translate the exterior’s material dialogue into an intimate, luminous calm.
