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With Cassandra Fenaughty
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Cassandra Fenaughty is a landscape architect with more than 20 years’ experience. She is the founder and owner of an innovative renovation design consultancy, creating photo-real renovation concepts for clients looking to visualise their dream renovation before it begins. For more visit cassandrafenaughty.com.
HOME FRONT
With property prices on the rise, residents are either renovating with new-found equity or flipping to make a profit. The first impression of a home is the most important, and this is a home’s facade, the street appeal.
Many homes on the Sunshine Coast have similar characteristics to this weatherboard beach house – a double-storey, flat facade with little or no articulation. These homes can be challenging to renovate, but our client’s love for a sleek modern look gave us some great inspiration on how to convert this old beach house into a modern and chic home.
With the brief to keep the Dulux Monument colour dominant, and to create a modern facade within a sensible budget, we set to work with how best to transform the street appeal of this property.
Breaking up the front face was the first step. We did this by creating a continuous awning for the full-length of the front, which also provides shade to the ground floor. This awning can be constructed as either a solid roof structure or a combination of solid roofing including vine frames to add a splash of green to break up the Monument tones. If the owners want to splurge, a small green roof section could also be added.
This awning structure also feeds into the new entry, which provides a functional foyer zone as well as a design feature that brings in timber tones to add warmth and a natural element to the facade.
The second storey of the home also has
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the need for more definition. We achieved this by designing wider external window framing and window shades, which also provide protection from the aft ernoon sun.
The addition of a soft entry path takes the edge off the modern frontage and incorporates a human and inviting scale, welcoming the homeowners and their guests to the home.
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