Ceramic Studio Conversion

Featuring ceramic pendant lights made by our client, this project was a conversion of her ceramics studio into a retirement retreat. Designed for a well-travelled couple, intending to continue travelling with extended periods of living overseas, the living room features backlit glass display shelving for their travel treasures. It enables them to rent out their large family home and use this studio in their back yard as their Melbourne pad between trips away. A small, but flexible space enabling indoor-outdoor living. The kitchen's central island bench is on wheels, with two positions envisaged for it, a central country kitchen table to sit around and prepare food, or pushed across to the bifold window to act as a serving area for an outdoor bar. The bathroom has corner sliding doors to open up to the bedroom and private garden, away from the second guest room and ensuite bathroom on the other side of the courtyard. Photography: Jane McDougall