PLAY THE BLUES

“THERE WAS POTENTIAL TO EXPLORE AND EMPHASISE SOME UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN MATERIALS AND SENSIBILITIES.”

ooking around this waterfront abode in Sydney’s Balmoral, you’d swear the beautifully composed colour palette had been lifted straight from its coastal surrounds. But just a few years earlier, when the home’s owners first moved in, this property was experiencing something of an awkward phase akin to adolescence. Built in the 1920s, the house had undergone “a pseudo-Tuscan style” renovation in the early 1990s that included the addition of a second storey and basement. This growth spurt certainly increased the floor area,