Hargrave Street Project

Hargrave Street

The brief for this terrace renovation was simple. The client wanted more natural light, privacy from neighbours, contemporary but timeless finishes, a large double garage on an elevated terrace and a plunge pool in a small courtyard.

Photography by Prue Ruscoe

Terrace house front facade with black iron fence and white walls

Our design team smartly broke down the bulk of the garage through a beautiful interplay of layered landscaping, textures and splayed form. A very skinny, low steel vetoing wall gave the opportunity for a little garden bed on the lower level. Once established, this garden will spill over the edge of the retaining wall and soften the view.

The next layer of the garage is a horizontal band of recycled painted bricks providing a lovely sense of texture and play with the natural light. Finally, a beautiful band of form concrete which is splayed to create a crisp edge to the top of the garage and support another layer of rooftop garden. Combined it creates the perfect backdrop to a small courtyard space.

A series of small rafters running through the skylight void provides privacy from the neighbour's upper story windows. The rafters continue from inside to outside and connect to the garage which visually ties the design together and creates a lovely inside/outside transition.

The internal palette was kept simple. Concrete floors, white joinery with accents of oak and natural stone on work surfaces. Again, this refined selection of materials were used to play as a backdrop to the client's beautiful collection of artwork and furniture.

White interior with dark timber floor and French doors opening to a green courtyard

Oak bench with black steel legs sits below an artwork next to floor to ceiling window

Below a rafted skylight sits an oak dining table and custom timber banquette

Modern kitchen interior with concrete flooring, rafted skylight, stone top island and timber furniture

Open black frame glass doors of an understair cupboard sits beneath a white staircase

View looking into a contemporary living room from a green feature courtyard

An open hidden door shows a red painted and wallpapered powder room

A modern curved timber and black leather armchair sits in front of open French doors

White bathroom interior with a Carrara stone top vanity below a rectangle mirror

A modern staircase with a white steel balustrade and floating timber steps

Modern white bathroom interior with vertical kit kat tiles and light grey stone floor

A small attic ceiling nook in a white home interior

A timber deck and small aqua pool sits in front of a white brick wall with a splayed concrete hanging garden

Modern terrace courtyard with timber deck and small pool infront of a white brick wall and hanging garden

Hargrave Street

The brief for this terrace renovation was simple. The client wanted more natural light, privacy from neighbours, contemporary but timeless finishes, a large double garage on an elevated terrace and a plunge pool in a small courtyard. ​

The brief for this terrace renovation was simple. The client wanted more natural light, privacy from neighbours, contemporary but timeless finishes, a large double garage on an elevated terrace and a plunge pool in a small courtyard.