A young family has bought an extremely sloping site atop the sand hills of the wonderfully named San Remo, a suburb just on the north side of Mandurah. With open views of the ocean available from the upper floor, the design became a single storey house from the street with the garage, living and master suite leading out to a balcony. Steps took you down to the lower floor with the minor bedrooms and rumpus room which lead out to ground level. Actually the slope was so extreme that the ground was still quickly falling away. All up a relatively simple home to deal with an extreme situation results in a wonderfully livable and fresh family home. Detailing was kept simple to meet budget requirements but done with style. Stainless steel yaughting wire balastrade was used to both balcony and internal staircase and round columns to the balcony and out front.
A Property investor purchased land in Shelley and split the home up the middle. I designed 2 x 2 storey homes for what were now street facing narrow lots. Family homes with a large backyard for outdoor entertaining so the living areas were placed at the rear of the home which is always a challenge to reduce the impact of the long passageway passed bedrooms. The homes were sucessful both in design and investment.
And the finished product sits well in the neighbourhood together with it's brother next door.
