Located in Melbourne, Australia, this modern single family house was completely redesigned Nexus Design.

Description by Nexus Design
We streamlined a Victorian terrace into a machine for modern family living. Every millimetre was considered meticulously, resulting in a vast and spacious ambience. A portable work space, play space, toy storage, and changeable dining space: all designed to be highly functional with intense colour and repetition of pattern.
Simplicity, function and good design were our brief and two existing furniture pieces that set the standard for our selections. We used black & white on fixed fittings which referenced historic black and white tiles of the renovated terrace and also new sleek black, white and timber architectural palette. This morphed it into black and white stripes, Hound?s-tooth and ?Puppytooth? fabrics. The main living area has an intense family of blues, from navy to three shades of sky blue, a direct reference to the framed sky view as seen from the front door. A purple over scaled Houndstooth custom rug grounds the living area and links to the Jacaranda tree. We added blackened timber joinery to the invite-only library space and a round, swivelling sofa in velvety burnt orange on a circular rug, the nourishing, private heart of the home where bedtime stories are read, parents collapse with a book or snuggle by the fire in winter. The client?s curved Arco lamp, uses true to its design purpose and reduced the need f...