Residential

Mornington Home

Mornington

In another joint effort with our friends at Foomann Architects, this holiday home was built on a steep & constrained triangular block to harness the spectacular views over Port Phillip Bay & the Mornington Yacht Club.

The structure consisted of a pre-fabricated timber column & beam grid, solid timber floor panels & SIPs wall panels. The house was then wrapped in vertical & horizontal spotted gum cladding, the unadorned facade rising as a soft monolith when entering the property.

Fido also coordinated the extensive landscape & swimming pool works.

Architecture
Foomann Architecture

Photography
Willem-Dirk du Toit

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Barnet Street

Yarraville

For this renovated Edwardian home in Melbourne’s inner-west, we worked with Studio MKN (their first project) to create seamless connectivity between the home’s expansive garden and its generous internal living space. The solution: a full-width steel window, welcoming natural light onto a contemporary dining and kitchen space. Functional and minimal, the kitchen features subtle 2-pac, veneer and Carrara marble cabinetry, which complements new, solid American Oak floors.

Design
Studio MKN

Photography
Nicole England

Ruby Street

Ormond

In another close collaboration with our friends at Foomann Architects, we worked together to sensitively extend and update a classic mid-century home while retaining its original design features. For the first-floor extension we mirrored an existing skillion roof, while robust Corten cladding was chosen to echo the façade’s warm timber details.
Detailed joinery and expansive wall space was also carefully considered inside the home to accommodate the clients’ extensive art collection.

Architecture
Foomann Architects

Photography
Willem-Dirk du Toit

Art Curation
Clark Art Projects

Styling
Esme Parker

Featured
Design Files in September 2018
Habitus Living in December 2018
Domain in January 2019