Garden House

Natural materials, bright light-filled spaces and an openness to the great outdoors will always be a beloved signature of Australian interiors. When conceiving the interiors of the Garden House, we were drawn to the concepts of timelessness, tranquility and escape. Garden House embodies the client’s combined passions for art, gardens, and colour.

SCOPE

Interior Design, Furnishing, Object and Art

Architecture

Polly Harbison Design

Landscape

Tom Ellicott

PHOTOGRAPHY

Anson Smart

Awards

Winner 2021 Australian Interior Design Awards (AIDA) Residential Decoration

Winner 2021 Belle Fanuli Interior Design Awards Best Residential Interior, Best Residential Kitchen Design and Best Residential Interior – Readers’ Choice

Architect, Polly Harbison, conceived a single storey addition that would connect the home to the garden by way of spatial manipulation. “A sequence of increasing scales create this sort of warped perspective effect to really draw the garden into the house. The floors are stepped down to the garden level and culminate in a four- metre-high space, increasing in width as well as height."

The garden has a grove of trees in the middle and a heady mix of flowers in every shape and colour. The clients wanted their house to have a similar combination of rich colours and textures, yet with the same feeling of calm. The unusually long garden was everything to this family, and they wanted to feel as if they were living in it. So was born the Garden Room, a space more suited to a Luca Guadagnino film set than here among the battle-axe blocks of Sydney’s North Shore.

The materiality and texture of the house are both warm and rich, whilst the monastic form and scale of the architecture instil a sense of calm . Most importantly, the building carefully frames and reveals the clients love for their garden. The landscape is the mesmerising star of the show.

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