Malvern East 01
By Beatrix Rowe
The Bowerbird Home
Location: Malvern East, VICTORIA
Builder: Good Constructions
Landscape: Good Soil & Water
Photography: Sharyn Cairns
Awards and
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From the exterior, the black front gate and refreshed white façade of the villa hide a transformation inside. A self-described ugly duckling, with tinges of 1960s villa, has been transformed into a cohesive, light-filled family home that embraces the clients’ love of cooking and collecting.
With an appreciation for the villa’s good bones and the client’s bowerbird tendencies, the floorplan was able to re-interpreted, to take better advantage of light and garden surrounds. A key priority was to open up the living spaces and invest in a new kitchen that better articulates the chef who lives here.
A new relationship with the outside through picture windows and glazed doors, sees the original small, dark and disconnected kitchen/dining area reborn, with the kitchen now bathed in sunshine rather than artificial light.
The contemporary design features a muted palette of deliberately layered natural materials, that allows the client’s collections to resonate rather than overwhelm in the space. Objects and art are repositioned, rehung and rejuvenated through integration of the collections into the interior concept.
The love of natural materials is expressed through handmade terracotta tiles, the use of rattan, timbers and select pieces of marble in the kitchen, ensuite and powder room and a steel glazed entry wall. Custom joinery continues this handmade story; making the home feel as if it has been there a long time, gathering history and memories, like the art and furniture that occupies the spaces.
Shortlisted for the DIA Designers Australia Awards
Shortlisted for the IDEA awards
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We are a Melbourne-based interior design studio. We design authentic, contemporary interior spaces that respond to place, function, light and form. We are inquisitive, understated and considered in our design approach. We remain a consciously boutique interior design practice that values personal involvement and oversight of all projects.
We love to know, interpret and understand our Clients’ living and working patterns. We use the power of design to solve problems and through our design approach, find better ways to live, work and connect. We carefully think through the way people really like to live, behind closed doors; and how to work optimally in retail, hospitality and other commercial spaces.
We are rigorous and pay great attention to every detail of the spaces being created – the natural materials selected, the custom detailing, the relationship to light and the needs of people who will inhabit the spaces. We value beauty and longevity.
We love custom features, carefully curated natural materials and inspired furniture, art and objects. We believe aesthetics and functionality should work hand in hand. We are detail driven and value well executed solutions to create a cohesive space.
We bring to each project more than 25 years’ experience across materials, furniture, art and interior possibilities as well as space planning, construction knowledge and design thinking expertise. We are collaborative. We draw upon a vast network of local contacts to build and craft our interiors and bring our projects to life.
The product design arm of BEATRIX ROWE is a natural extension of the studio’s work and values. We design and produce mirrors, furniture and sculptures, teaming up with Australian makers.
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