HOME SALLY CROXTON
SURPRISE PACKAGE A once understated lakeside home now screams ‘‘Look at me’’.
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here’s a host of intriguing surprises about this Eleebana house. Drive down the street and the property is on one side with Lake Macquarie sparkling at the end of the road. So it is a revelation to arrive at the modern glass and timberpanelled front door and look in past the gleaming dark-tiled open-plan living and kitchen area and see the water again. The street is on a sharp bend in Lake Macquarie and the house occupies a quiet, waterfront block. Its superb design maximises the scenic vista out past the pool with its natural-looking rock waterfall, across the lake to a bush-lined stretch of reserve. The next surprise is the home’s age. It is only after talking to James, who owns the house
with his wife Karen, that I discover the smart rendered property with a Colorbond roof is not the new build it BEFORE: The original 1970s-style facade. appears from the street. They They decided to get professional advice then have lived there for 10 years, with their three opted to go with the major changes proposed sons, aged 7, 10 and 12, in what was originally for both inside and out. The design and a 1970s-style brick and tile house. documentation was done by Seymour Lawler James says it was the decision to have a new Architects and architectural consultation kitchen that acted as the catalyst for the during the building works was by Mark Lawler complete transformation of the split-level Architects with Stephen Coon as project property. architect. The builder was Steve Martin, whose “The kitchen wasn’t in the best spot so we keen eye for detail ensured a high standard of had to improve it,” he says. “Our en suite work. occupied the north-east aspect of the home Stephen says the original street facade which was probably where the kitchen should presented a “bizarre roof form”. He says the have been.”
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