The project consists of the restoration and relocation of a barn from Northern Pennsylvania to a 30-acre site on the Cahaba River in Alabama. The century-old barn was meticulously documented, disassembled and transported to the site as a “kit of parts.” A plinth was crafted with local stone to serve as a base for the reconstructed barn and provide basement areas for a guest suite, storage and parking. At reassembly, a craftsman from Pennsylvania was recruited to assure that the barn’s structure and joinery were consistent with its original construction. Conscious of environmental economy, the center of the home is anchored by a large Russian Stove that heats the entire house and creates a focal point within the double height living space. A rooftop lantern and open porches bring light into the interior space. The bedroom suite was designed as discrete loft space to preserve the integrity of the double height volume. Artifacts recovered from the site were also utilized within the space - the frame of and old wagon was hung above the kitchen to create an intimate space within vault of the living area.

PENNSYLVANIA BARN A century-old barn was meticulously documented, disassembled, and transported from Pennsylvania to a farm in Alabama. In its new location, local stone serves as a base for the reconstructed barn that provides areas for a guest suite, storage, and parking. A craftsman from Pennsylvania was recruited to ensure that the barn’s structure and joinery were consistent with its original construction. The center of the home is anchored by a Russian stove that sits in the open barn frame and heats the entire house. The bedroom suite is designed as a discrete loft space to allow for privacy from the main living area. A rooftop “lantern” was added along with open porches to bring light into the interiors. Artifacts recovered from the barn’s original site were also utilized within the home, such as the frame of an old wagon that now hangs above the kitchen.

In today’s homes, whether you’re running a business from your residence or managing household tasks and schedules, a home office is a common essential. Organizing your home office extends beyond simply placing your computer; it’s about determining the optimal space for essential documents and ensuring your desk’s height promotes comfort. At The Tailored Closet, we go beyond aesthetics to maximize your home office’s functionality. We design an ergonomically-friendly workspace while meticulously arranging electronic cords, printers, recycling bins, shredders, and trashcans. Our goal is to create a home office that enhances your productivity by fostering organization. Imagine transforming your home office into a multi-purpose haven. One creative use is incorporating a guest room into your design. The Tailored Closet offers the option of integrating a Murphy bed into your home office layout, ensuring you’re always ready to host guests graciously, all without sacrificing an entire room. Our approach at The Tailored Closet involves the strategic use of cabinets, shelves, and bins, tailored to your unique work style. We offer a diverse range of finishes and styles to seamlessly blend with your existing decor. With our customized home office designs, you’ll enjoy an efficient, adaptable, and hard-working space that suits your needs.

- PROCESS PHOTOS - Kitchen Nearing completion, this residence is situated in an ideal location that offers the dual comforts of seclusion and proximity to Portland's urban center. A comprehensive remodel and addition, this traditional Swiss Chalet structure has undergone a substantial transition from rustic cabin to modern dwelling. With a focus on optimizing function and achieving a clean, contemporary Northwest aesthetic, the choice to expose and refinish the existing wood ceilings speaks to the story of the original structure. Design Services include finish and fixture selection and specification, production of Interior Construction Documents, custom casework design, and general consultation. Space Planning and Architectural Design/Detailing by Revent Architecture.

In today’s homes, whether you’re running a business from your residence or managing household tasks and schedules, a home office is a common essential. Organizing your home office extends beyond simply placing your computer; it’s about determining the optimal space for essential documents and ensuring your desk’s height promotes comfort. At The Tailored Closet, we go beyond aesthetics to maximize your home office’s functionality. We design an ergonomically-friendly workspace while meticulously arranging electronic cords, printers, recycling bins, shredders, and trashcans. Our goal is to create a home office that enhances your productivity by fostering organization. Imagine transforming your home office into a multi-purpose haven. One creative use is incorporating a guest room into your design. The Tailored Closet offers the option of integrating a Murphy bed into your home office layout, ensuring you’re always ready to host guests graciously, all without sacrificing an entire room. Our approach at The Tailored Closet involves the strategic use of cabinets, shelves, and bins, tailored to your unique work style. We offer a diverse range of finishes and styles to seamlessly blend with your existing decor. With our customized home office designs, you’ll enjoy an efficient, adaptable, and hard-working space that suits your needs.

In today’s homes, whether you’re running a business from your residence or managing household tasks and schedules, a home office is a common essential. Organizing your home office extends beyond simply placing your computer; it’s about determining the optimal space for essential documents and ensuring your desk’s height promotes comfort. At The Tailored Closet, we go beyond aesthetics to maximize your home office’s functionality. We design an ergonomically-friendly workspace while meticulously arranging electronic cords, printers, recycling bins, shredders, and trashcans. Our goal is to create a home office that enhances your productivity by fostering organization. Imagine transforming your home office into a multi-purpose haven. One creative use is incorporating a guest room into your design. The Tailored Closet offers the option of integrating a Murphy bed into your home office layout, ensuring you’re always ready to host guests graciously, all without sacrificing an entire room. Our approach at The Tailored Closet involves the strategic use of cabinets, shelves, and bins, tailored to your unique work style. We offer a diverse range of finishes and styles to seamlessly blend with your existing decor. With our customized home office designs, you’ll enjoy an efficient, adaptable, and hard-working space that suits your needs.

In today’s homes, whether you’re running a business from your residence or managing household tasks and schedules, a home office is a common essential. Organizing your home office extends beyond simply placing your computer; it’s about determining the optimal space for essential documents and ensuring your desk’s height promotes comfort. At The Tailored Closet, we go beyond aesthetics to maximize your home office’s functionality. We design an ergonomically-friendly workspace while meticulously arranging electronic cords, printers, recycling bins, shredders, and trashcans. Our goal is to create a home office that enhances your productivity by fostering organization. Imagine transforming your home office into a multi-purpose haven. One creative use is incorporating a guest room into your design. The Tailored Closet offers the option of integrating a Murphy bed into your home office layout, ensuring you’re always ready to host guests graciously, all without sacrificing an entire room. Our approach at The Tailored Closet involves the strategic use of cabinets, shelves, and bins, tailored to your unique work style. We offer a diverse range of finishes and styles to seamlessly blend with your existing decor. With our customized home office designs, you’ll enjoy an efficient, adaptable, and hard-working space that suits your needs.

Langhorne Carpet Company proudly announces its latest collaboration with Vermont Custom Rug Company’s David Hunt on an elegant reproduction of the early 19th century worsted wool carpet for the dining room of historic Hyde Hall. A National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site in Springfield, NY, eight miles north of Cooperstown, Hyde Hall is considered “one of the finest examples of the neoclassical country houses in the United States.” The agricultural estate was the project and prize of wealthy British-born landowner George Clarke (1768-1835). Clarke owned 120,000 acres in New York’s Leatherstocking Region and designed Hyde Hall on the bank of Otsego Lake with Albany architect Philip Hooker. The mansion, the estate’s centerpiece, was constructed from 1817 to 1835. Today, Hyde Hall resides within Glimmerglass State Park. Recent years have brought Hyde Hall a meticulous, history-driven, artisan-fueled restoration to recreate Clarke’s precise original vision. David Hunt chose Langhorne Carpet Company to recreate the Brussels looped pile carpet for the property’s dining room. Made from the finest worsted wool, a yarn used today almost exclusively in apparel, Brussels carpets were a 19th-century status symbol among America’s wealthiest citizens, including presidents and major landowners. According to Clarke’s scrupulously kept ledgers, in 1831 he purchased “122 linear yards of Brussels body carpet, along with 24 yards of Brussels border carpet from the showroom of Lowe & Connah in New York City for the sum of $308.00. A hefty amount for the period,” said Hunt. The carpet—which, Hunt said, may well be one of the first examples Wilton carpet woven in the United States—remained in the dining room through the end of the 19th century. As for the two tuffets? They not only survive—they also remain covered in the original textile. This existence of these original tuffets for nearly two centuries, said Hunt, is both incredibly rare and fortuitous. “Having a documented portion of the original carpet, intact 186 years after manufacture, is, for the textile historian, a gold mine of information. Although the border portion of the design remains most visible, having the ability to document and verify the yarn quality, sett (pattern) of the weave and most importantly the original colors is huge.” Hunt “dissected” the tuffets to reveal the yarn that, like in all Wilton weaves, is buried beneath the textile’s back, unexposed to sunlight, air, or cleaning agents. When he did, he found the carpet’s original colors and pattern. From there, he and Langhorne used a black-and-white photograph of the original carpet to create a botanical pattern for the field that would, he said, “honor the style of the border.” He then turned over the work to Langhorne, to create the patterns, match the dye colors, and weave the carpets on narrow looms much like the ones used 200 years ago. Langhorne, he added, is the only mill in the United States—and one of very few in the entire world—capable of doing such a job. “Langhorne has this wonderful capability to do all sorts of different things. I don’t think a lot of people understand that option is out there, and it’s a lot easier than you think to do it,” he said. What’s more, “They’re real people, working people—the folks on the loom, the weavers, the folks in the office: Except for the clothing, they’re the same type of people you would have found in a mill 200 years ago. It takes special people to do this, and that’s Langhorne.”

https://pipafineart.com/products/antique-apothecary-vintage-botanical-herbs-illustration-digital-artwork-loose-print. "Antique Apothecary" invites you to bring the charm of a vintage botanical illustration into your home. This digitally created artwork, reminiscent of classic scientific sketches, presents a collection of delicate botanicals rendered in meticulous detail. The muted tones and intricate linework evoke a sense of history and discovery, reminiscent of antique apothecary guides and their meticulous documentation of nature's wonders. Printed on high-quality photo paper with premium inks, "Antique Apothecary" adds a touch of understated elegance and vintage charm to any space. Whether displayed in your pantry, kitchen, dining room, or office, this versatile art print complements a variety of décor styles, from rustic farmhouse to modern minimalist. Let the subtle beauty of "Antique Apothecary" transport you to a bygone era, where the study of nature and the pursuit of knowledge intertwined.

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

Brief: Incorporate two new wings running 90-degrees to the original building; master bedroom wing and kids wing. In effect, creating a U-shaped design with a central courtyard in between and almost twice the usable floor area to accommodate a large family and friends.” Key design features: • U-shaped design with separate master bedroom wing on the west side and kids wing on the east side, connected by the original homestead which runs west-to-east. • The central courtyard features a generous outdoor entertainment area, including a swimming pool, spa and landscaped gardens, all overlooking the Moorabool River which runs through Bannockburn. • The extensively landscaped gardens. • Open-plan central living area within the original homestead wing, which features raked ceilings with fully-restored exposed timber trusses and a modern kitchen, complete with Butler’s Pantry hidden behind. • Spotted Gum timber flooring in the main living and circulation spaces. • James Hardies Stria and Matrix compressed fibre-cement sheet cladding systems. (Extremely durable and suitable for a BAL-29 site). Some of the key design decisions included: • Meticulously designing these renovations to meet all of the new bushfire Australian Standards and regulations for a BAL-29 property. • By incorporating the west and east wings, helping to protect the north-facing outdoor entertainment spaces from the strong south and south-westerly winds. • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the main circulation spaces. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces on both the north and south sides of the house. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 5.5-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Spotted Gum timber flooring. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Rain water storage for non-potable use; toilets, washing machine and gardens. • Sand-based, water-saving septic system. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction (house). • 5 months major landscaping (pool, courtyard, decks/pergolas and main gardens on the north and south sides of the house).

Brief: Incorporate two new wings running 90-degrees to the original building; master bedroom wing and kids wing. In effect, creating a U-shaped design with a central courtyard in between and almost twice the usable floor area to accommodate a large family and friends.” Key design features: • U-shaped design with separate master bedroom wing on the west side and kids wing on the east side, connected by the original homestead which runs west-to-east. • The central courtyard features a generous outdoor entertainment area, including a swimming pool, spa and landscaped gardens, all overlooking the Moorabool River which runs through Bannockburn. • The extensively landscaped gardens. • Open-plan central living area within the original homestead wing, which features raked ceilings with fully-restored exposed timber trusses and a modern kitchen, complete with Butler’s Pantry hidden behind. • Spotted Gum timber flooring in the main living and circulation spaces. • James Hardies Stria and Matrix compressed fibre-cement sheet cladding systems. (Extremely durable and suitable for a BAL-29 site). Some of the key design decisions included: • Meticulously designing these renovations to meet all of the new bushfire Australian Standards and regulations for a BAL-29 property. • By incorporating the west and east wings, helping to protect the north-facing outdoor entertainment spaces from the strong south and south-westerly winds. • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the main circulation spaces. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces on both the north and south sides of the house. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 5.5-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Spotted Gum timber flooring. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Rain water storage for non-potable use; toilets, washing machine and gardens. • Sand-based, water-saving septic system. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction (house). • 5 months major landscaping (pool, courtyard, decks/pergolas and main gardens on the north and south sides of the house).

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

The design was a very close collaboration between AMG Architects and the husband and wife team, Jamie and Tarnya Lynch of Jamie Lynch Builders (one of Geelong’s most awarded reputable builders, who specialises in these types of ‘heritage-style house projects.’) Brief: The clients over a ‘hand-shake agreement’ with the original owner “Mr. Harris”, purchased this site and the derelict house under one important condition, “if they demolished the original house, the new house and surrounding landscaping, would remain in keeping with prevailing heritage-style neighbourhood.” Key design features: • From outside, facing the street, the house appears more like a renovation of an existing circa 1900’s house than a completely new 21st Century equivalent. This is due to the architect’s and builder’s meticulous attention to detail, recreating extremely convincing architectural elements that define this style of house; the proportions and scale of the house and its feature gabled-ended roofs, veranda, windows and doors, the choice of traditional materials, colours and finishes, even the intricately detailed front fence and entry gate. • Inside, the builder was able to recreate the luxurious high ceilings complete with wainscoting dado walls, elaborate cornices, mouldings and heritage detailing. • The builder was able to painstakingly restore and re-use the original Baltic timber flooring. When you walk in through the front door, these floor boards running longitudinally along the central corridor, draw your eye all the way down to the living spaces at the rear of the house. • At the rear of the house, we created a more contemporary New York Apartment industrial-style open-plan living area which featured tall raking ceilings with exposed trusses, feature red pressed brick walls (reusing old Geelong Red pressed bricks), a classic Cheminees Philippe free-standing cast-iron fire-place and large expanses of steel framed multi-panelled windows and doors, which allow daylight to flood into this space. • Beyond is an Alfresco deck area that helps to further blur the lines between inside and outside. • A modest sized plunge pool and contemporary landscaping creating a ‘soft’ transition between the house and rear detached garage structure. Some of the key design decisions included: • Creating a heritage-style house to suit the area. • Maximising the available living space on a long and narrow site, to accommodate a 4-Bedroom house and on-site secure parking (accessed via the rear laneway). • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the central corridor. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces; alfresco, pool and rear gardens. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 6-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Baltic pine timber floor boards. • Recycled Geelong Red pressed bricks. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction. • 3 months landscaping and final fit-out (hard and soft furnishings).

Brief: Incorporate two new wings running 90-degrees to the original building; master bedroom wing and kids wing. In effect, creating a U-shaped design with a central courtyard in between and almost twice the usable floor area to accommodate a large family and friends.” Key design features: • U-shaped design with separate master bedroom wing on the west side and kids wing on the east side, connected by the original homestead which runs west-to-east. • The central courtyard features a generous outdoor entertainment area, including a swimming pool, spa and landscaped gardens, all overlooking the Moorabool River which runs through Bannockburn. • The extensively landscaped gardens. • Open-plan central living area within the original homestead wing, which features raked ceilings with fully-restored exposed timber trusses and a modern kitchen, complete with Butler’s Pantry hidden behind. • Spotted Gum timber flooring in the main living and circulation spaces. • James Hardies Stria and Matrix compressed fibre-cement sheet cladding systems. (Extremely durable and suitable for a BAL-29 site). Some of the key design decisions included: • Meticulously designing these renovations to meet all of the new bushfire Australian Standards and regulations for a BAL-29 property. • By incorporating the west and east wings, helping to protect the north-facing outdoor entertainment spaces from the strong south and south-westerly winds. • Ensuring adequate natural light and ventilation to all areas of the house, including the main circulation spaces. • Open-plan living area and direct link through to the outdoor entertainment spaces on both the north and south sides of the house. Ecologically sustainable design principles used: • 5.5-Star Energy Rating. (i.e. Minimal draughts and energy transference through the building fabric due to meticulous building methodologies and techniques combined with extensive use of natural wool insulation in walls, ceilings and roof and double-glazed windows with high performance energy films). • Recycled Spotted Gum timber flooring. • Strategic location of windows to capture natural sunlight and prevailing breezes to help light and ventilate the house, respectively. • Rain water storage for non-potable use; toilets, washing machine and gardens. • Sand-based, water-saving septic system. • Energy efficient appliances. Project time frame [drop down]: • 6 months design and documentation (design and building drawings) • 12 months construction (house). • 5 months major landscaping (pool, courtyard, decks/pergolas and main gardens on the north and south sides of the house).