‘Sumptuously nostalgic’: Dune House | ArchitectureAU

Dune Home celebrates the delicate artwork of motif, texture and tone, creating a spot that’s sumptuously nostalgic. The design attracts on a number of references, together with the native coastal panorama, mid-century architectural roots and Italian homeowners with a ardour for culinary delights and gatherings with household and buddies. Perth inside design agency Ohlo Studio collaborated with Simon Pendal Architect to finish the alterations and additions to the Fremantle home.

The kitchen performs a key function each functionally and spatially, performing as a bodily divider between the open-plan areas of the eating and lounge and the extra informal area of the household room. Because of this, the kitchen is designed to be skilled from either side, with its rattan again and timber entrance reflecting these opposing personalities. The opening framed between kitchen splashback and high-level cabinetry improves the visible connection between rooms whereas drawing pure mild into the kitchen to stability the sun-drenched areas on the other, road facet of the home.

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White ceramic benchtops act as a palate cleanser beside the dominant rust-coloured timber tones within the kitchen.

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Jack Lovel

Sapele timber veneer is used as the first end to cabinetry and the tonal consequence for the kitchen is an amazing feeling of richness and heat. White ceramic benchtops act as a palate cleanser to those extra dominant rust-coloured timber tones whereas offsetting the sandy shades of the travertine flooring. Tablet-shaped pull handles convey a stage of visible softness and echo motifs discovered elsewhere. The L-shaped plan of the kitchen keys in superbly to the adjoining window seat, which affords a cushty place for family and friends to share within the ceremony of meal preparation.

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Ohlo Studio has used minimal tonal variation, bringing focus to every room’s particulars.

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Jack Lovel

The mixture of white ceramic benchtops and timber cabinetry extends into the ensuite. Pure mild drawn down from the ceiling illuminates these finishes whereas highlighting the textural nuances of partitions completed in limewash render. Within the kids’s rest room, color is dialled up a notch and, along with the white and timber tones, a deep, dusty blue is utilized to textured partitions. The tumbled mosaic tiles of the Roman bathtub recall the delights of Italian holidays previous.

In designing for a “lifetime of ease with out extra,” Ohlo Studio has exercised nice restraint whereas giving ample weight to the main points that matter most. Nuanced and delicate finishes, minimal tonal variation and skilled mild management convey layers of pleasure to ceremonial rooms. These modest strikes uphold the traditions of constructing, baking and soaking, and be sure that they change into sensuous and memorable experiences at Dune Home.