Sweet Cottage in Victoria Park

The clients had a small space at the rear of an existing older house on a corner lot.  Opposite a major shopping centre but with North to the street, they had decided they wanted to put their living area with a large entertaining balcony up top facing the road with a courtyard below off a smaller living room.  Authority regulations limited the enclosure of the front fence but future planting will give them enough privacy at ground level.  A requirement to emulate the surrounding houses of the 1900-1940's meant the top was built in framework clad in lapped board cladding.  Windows had to be broken up, roof pitches steeper and rafter tails exposed.  However these all help make the home one of character to compliment the older homes surrounding. A garage door was not allowed to face the street however significant arguments were presented and approval was granted early in 2011 for the home to be built.

Completed late in 2012 and with the landscaping established, the home makes a sweet addition to the surrounding period homes of early 1900's.