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Winter Street

Winter Street

Malvern

This project involved the renovation and extension of a stunning double fronted Victorian house. IF Architecture’s bold pink and blue interiors were influenced by the original leadlight entry.

Eckersley Garden Architecture seamlessly connected the house and the pool with their landscape design.

Architecture & Interior Design
IF Architecture

Landscape Architecture
Eckersley Garden Architecture

Photography
Sharyn Cairns

The Fido team delivered on time & on budget, despite the complexities that arose from the pandemic.

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Blairgowrie Beach Club

Blairgowrie Beach Club

Blairgowrie

Our clients’ brief was for the beach house to have “funkis”, a Scandinavian functional style. Bower Architecture & Interiors certainly delivered, with a light coloured timber facade defined with vertical blades & minimal, light interiors, opening the house to the peninsula as well as onto the tennis court.

Architect
Bower Architecture & Interiors

Photography
Shannon McGrath

Stylist
Jess Kneebone

Landscape Design
Kate LePage Garden Design

Landscape
Peninsula Green Landscapes

“Fido Projects delivered a beautiful sense of craft to the Blairgowrie Beach Club in the resolution of the many complex carpentry details. Exceptional timberwork was paramount in the successful realising of Fio & Katarina’s coastal home”

Anna Dutton Lourié
Bower Architecture & Interiors

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Casa di Campo

Casa di Campo

Werribee South

Conceived as an inward facing courtyard house, Casa di Campo is a place of sanctuary and escape amongst the surrounding farmland. The plan is designed around one large central garden and small periphery courtyards with lush landscape view and protect the home from the elements.

The material pallet is deliberately paired back and earthy, inspired by the broader surrounding landscape.

Architect
Neil Architecture

Photography
Tom Blachford

Landscape Architect
Acre

Landscape Construction
Form Landscaping

Featured
The Local Project 2023
Dezeen 2023
Victorian Architecture Awards 2023 Shortlist

“It was a pleasure to work with Fido Projects on the Casa di Campo house. Their attention to quality and architectural details was considered and meticulous. Fido’s exceptional craftsmanship together with their responsiveness and commitment to the project allowed us to realise our vision of creating a sanctuary for our clients.”

David Neil
Neil Architecture

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Somers Beach House

Somers

Somers

Somers Beach House occupies a prominent beach fronted property overlooking Westernport, Phillip Island and Bass Strait beyond. The Wellard Architects designed house has two generous levels acting independently of one another as an inter-generational holiday house.

A detailed build sequence meant that we completed the boat shed on the water’s edge first, before commencing the expressed steel structure of the main house on the steepest section of the site.

Architect
Wellard Architects

Landscape Architect
Fiona Brockhoff Design

Photography
Derek Swalwell

Styling
Natalie James

Featured
Habitus Living in March 2023
Australian Interior Design Awards 2023 Shortlist

“Tim and the team at Fido Projects are a pleasure to deal with. Not only do they go to the extra effort of following through and reviewing complex details with the design team before executing on site, but they are wonderful communicators and have obviously focused on working together with trades that share their same vision and appreciation for detail. Fido’s follow up service post completion is also excellent. Relationships are a cornerstone of their business and it shows.”

Huw Wellard, Founder
Wellard Architects

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Flinders House

Flinders House

Flinders

Nestled within an existing garden on the Mornington Peninsula, Flinders House unites Modernism with the contemporary. The original house was built in the 1980s and first renovated in 2002. The clients (one a retired architect) were eager to spend more time in their holiday home, with the capacity to host friends and family. As return clients, working again with Fido Projects & Fooman Architects, the team embarked on the highly collaborative work of renovating once more.

Architecture
Foomann Architects

Photography
Willem-Dirk du Toit

Landscape Design
Phillip Johnson Landscapes

Featured
The Local Project in 2022
Houses Awards 2023 Shortlist

“The fastidious and demanding detail involved in the building, crafted with care by builders up to the task, provide depth to a home that initially presents as simple. The junctions were complex to achieve but help to create a home that is intended to feel relaxed, grounded and at ease.”

Jamie Sormann, Founder
Foomann Architects

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Threes

Threes

Albert Park

In late 2018, Vogue Living described the house as “rich but reductive, demonstrative but quiet, unified but effervescing with unique expressions.” For this home, an ornate, heritage Victorian terrace, the vision was to balance old and new, for a smart, contemporary makeover.

We worked with interior designers Golden to bring the residence to life.
For us it was the third, unrelated project on the same street, and proved that when it comes to design, and life, good things really do come in threes.

Interior Design
Golden

Photography
Sharyn Cairns

Art Direction
Marsha Golemac

“Fido Projects have a passion for good design and it is reflected in the quality and detail of their work. Collaborating with this talented team makes for a smooth experience for the client, designer and trades, no task is too hard. It is Fido’s great communication, organisation and attention to detail that makes for such an enjoyable process for all.”

Kylie Dorotic Director
Design by Golden

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Point Lonsdale House

Point Lonsdale House

Point Lonsdale

Simplicity at its finest achieved by a paring back of traditional building elements creating a modern take on the humble beach shack. Extensive use of Blackbutt timber for external cladding, internal wall and ceiling lining and floors, custom off-form concrete bath and shower provide contrasting textures. Extensive glazing and custom steel windows & doors open to native coastal gardens and tranquil spaces.

Architect
Edition Office

Photography
Ben Hosking

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Tower House

Tower House

Inner Melbourne

The vision for this home was that of a classic, yet contemporary residence that could endure through time, and retain a sense of elegance—always. More importantly however, it had to be practical. The request from the owner: “We didn’t want a home that looked too pristine to live in.” To meet the brief, we worked with architect Dylan Farrell to strip the existing modern Italianate-style house of its finishes, rejig the floor plan, and enlarge entrance-ways to create a new rhythm where space is opened up and infinitely more liveable. We also completed minor external works in and around the garden, designed thoughtfully by Paul Bangay.

Described by Farrell as showcasing a “high level of craftsmanship, and a low level of showmanship,” the finished design is inspired by the work of Christian Liaigre and Joseph Dirand. It’s stylish without shouting it. The home featured on the cover of Belle Magazine in April, 2018.

Design
Dylan Farrell

Landscape Design
Paul Bangay

Photography
Prue Ruscoe

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House A

House A

Alphington

House A (for Alphington), located in Melbourne’s inner north, was the proud Winner of the 2017 Victorian Architecture Award, Residential Architecture – Houses (New) category.
Responding to the inclined nature of its block, the house creates a feeling of a country escape — it’s design leading outward to a timber deck, where landscaping by Lygon St Nursery echoes the natural environment.

Timber plays a significant role here, both internally and externally, with rough-sawn Stringy Bark cladding the outside of the house and featuring inside too—this time, in dressed form, to clad walls and screening the staircase.

American Oak floors further complement the Australian hardwoods.
The windows, most of which are floor to above-ceiling height were custom built on-site by us.

Architecture
Walter & Walter.

Photography
Platform Eight.

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Halo House

Halo House

Glen Iris

Taking inspiration from the ‘halo effect,’ a biological term used to describe the thriving ecosystems surrounding icebergs in the Southern Antarctic Ocean; Halo House provides a sanctuary for its inhabitants, while allowing for increased activity in and around its perimeter. Designed by Breathe Architecture with landscape design by Eckersley Garden Architecture, the home was scaled to house a large family and a home business, with a focus on collective wellbeing.

Halo House also incorporates Breathe’s customary sustainable design, including a large solar PV array, electric heat pumps for hydronic heating and hot water, rain water tanks, as well as passive solar design features, operable shading and low impact material selections such as natural concrete, painted recycled brick and raw brass. All materials were locally sourced and environmentally sustainable where possible.

Halo House featured in Habitus Magazine in October 2018, and ArchitectureAU in October 2017.

Architecture
Breathe Architecture

Landscape Design
Eckersley Garden Architecture

Photography
Dianna Snape

“Fido went above and beyond. They brought more to the project than we could ever have imagined. They took total responsibility for the successful delivery of the project and thought through every detail proactively identifying and solving issues before they ever turned into problems. Fido added value every step of the way”

Jeremy McLeod
Director Breathe Architecture

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