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Quirk House

Contemporary addition and alteration to a well-loved heritage terrace home.

North House Projects has reconfigured the dwelling in Sydney's Inner West to suit the needs of a growing family. The work is understated chiefly from the streetscape as the team has worked to preserve the heritage frontage akin to neighbouring homes. Clues, however, have been left throughout the house, manifesting the period materials used for the original build of the home.

Designed by Studio Panetta, very close consultation with the homeowner has resulted in a thoughtful interior design that has future-proofed the home for the growing family. By utilising movable walls in the room centre of the house, a multi-use space can morph into the family's needs.

Additional fenestrations, clearstory windows and skylights bathes highly used spaces in natural light, which terraces of the era lacked immensely.

Project architect | Studio Panetta

Builder | North House Projects

Graced with the same green hue, access to the street-facing balcony on the home's northern side is via the main bedroom.
Previous home occupants have left a timestamp through layering various materials used during the respective construction periods. These have been celebrated, making centrepieces and visual interests of the home.
Quirk House
Quirk House
The narrow hallway leading to the home's original termination is a vestibule to the light-saturated open-plan kitchen and adjacent dining spaces.
As the need for a growing family evolves, the operable walls allow the occupants to reconfigure the space as needed- maximising the versatility of a small footprint structure.
The clearstory windows define the southern extension form, allowing incidental natural light to enter, blanketing open plan kitchen and adjacent dining space. Further, the originality theme extends to the contemporary build through the exposed texture of
Quirk House
Quirk House
The inbuilt bench braced by the bay window above and sliding doors to the outdoor offer a casual setting for dinner with views of the surrounding vegetation.
Quirk House
The open plan spaces allow for separate tasks to be completed whilst still in connection.

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