Garden Residence

The ground floor combines living, dining and a stone-topped island table in one continuous volume. A curved, timber-clad feature wall separates the lounge from the dining area without closing it off, while full-height glazing brings the garden into view from every seat.

Upstairs the home divides into private suites. An elders’ bedroom has its own dressing room; guest and secondary bedrooms each combine sleeping, study and storage within built-in joinery; and a third-floor principal suite pairs the bedroom with a walk-in wardrobe. A separate tea room provides a quieter room for gathering.

Across every level, storage is built into the architecture — flush wardrobe fronts, integrated desks, window seats and display cabinetry — so that the furniture itself can remain few in number and considered in form.

The language is warm minimalism: strong architectural lines softened by rounded edges, upholstered forms and diffuse light. Coffered ceilings conceal linear lighting that washes walls rather than pointing at them, and timber wainscot wraps the bedrooms at a consistent height.

Curves are used deliberately against the geometry of the house — an organic-form coffee table, a rounded feature wall, a ring pendant above the round dining table, the curved backs of the lounge and dining chairs. Colour comes from materials rather than paint: cognac leather, rust-toned drapery, the grain of dark and pale timbers.

In the tea room the tone shifts slightly, with backlit shelving, a veined stone panel and a round-backed timber chair offering a restrained nod to Asian tea culture.