Yallingup's Lomond Residence

Winner of the 2025 HIA Western Australian Housing Awards

Contemporary house exterior featuring stone façade and native garden landscaping

published on 9 January 2026

3 minutes read

Three themes emerge from the context of this Yallingup Ridge residence: an honest, tactile materiality, a careful dialogue with its semi-rural setting, and a calibrated generosity of space. Designed by Naked Architecture and built by Dunsborough-based Phil Kelleher Homes on a two-acre site, the project’s story is anchored in Western Australia’s landscape and craft traditions while embracing contemporary amenity. Its recognition at the 2025 HIA South West Housing Awards—taking out Innovation in Housing and Custom Built Home of the Year—confirms the rigour behind that balance.

“Lomond was about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in residential construction while keeping it deeply connected to the South West landscape”
Phil Kelleher, managing director
Phil Kelleher Homes

Material choices do much of the narrative lifting. Rammed earth is used not only as an accent but as a structural and atmospheric element, giving the interiors a quiet gravitas and the exterior a grounded silhouette. Natural stone is threaded through feature walls, its grain and colour modulation echoing local geology. Together, these elements supply thermal mass, textural depth and a sense of permanence. The palette builds from these earthy anchors: light, bright surfaces amplify daylight, while warm mineral tones soften transitions between rooms, ensuring the high ceilings read as uplifting rather than cavernous.

Rammed earth wall texture close-up

Matt Moyes

The semi-rural property invites a landscape strategy of restraint and specificity. Native plantings stitch the architecture into the country without mimicry, supporting biodiversity and long-term resilience while keeping water use in check. Views are framed to the bush rather than imposed upon it, with the mass of rammed earth tempering glare and heat, and the stone detailing mediating thresholds between inside and out.

Aerial view of Lomond Residence nestled within the native bush

Spatially, the house pursues generosity with discipline. High ceilings and a luminous colour palette open the living zones, allowing the material richness to remain legible from multiple vantage points. In the kitchen, high-end appliances are integrated with crafted joinery, and a built-in wine store signals a measured indulgence aligned with the region’s epicurean culture. These decisions speak to innovation as more than technology: it is the thoughtful orchestration of materials, climate, and everyday rituals.

Stone facade house entrance and native Australian garden

Contemporary house exterior with stone and metal façade

Completed in 2025, this collaboration between Naked Architecture and Phil Kelleher Homes demonstrates how grounded material expression and native landscape sensibilities can elevate contemporary rural living—quietly confident, technically resolved and unmistakably of its place.