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Photo of a medium sized contemporary bathroom in Reims with medium wood cabinets, a corner shower, beige tiles, ceramic tiles, beige walls, ceramic flooring, a console sink, wooden worktops, an open shower and flat-panel cabinets.

Remodelled en-suite in Griffith, Canberra
Inspiration for a small contemporary ensuite bathroom in Canberra - Queanbeyan with white cabinets, a double shower, a one-piece toilet, white tiles, metro tiles, white walls, porcelain flooring, a vessel sink, marble worktops, grey floors, a hinged door and flat-panel cabinets.

Small contemporary balcony in Surrey with a roof extension and feature lighting.

Our main bathroom at our #NewSpacesxMonash project is simple in design, but packs a punch on functionality and space. Storage to service three kids as they grow was imperative, so the bathroom features a massive 1800mm custom vanity by @topshelf joinery including tall cabinet. A ‘wet-area’ design encompasses both the back-to-wall bath and shower space, with a hand-held shower positioned between for ease of cleaning, especially for the kids in the bath on hair washing night! This open shower design also means less shower screens to keep clean

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

This is an example of a medium sized contemporary galley open plan kitchen in Kent with flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets and medium hardwood flooring.

The clients of this fantastic project contracted New Spaces and Baxter Design to work together to collaboratively design and price the extension to their existing cottage home in Narrabundah. Together with Baxter Design, we worked closely with the owners through the design process, ensuring that the project was aligned with their desires for their home, and their budget. Following the successful design process, New Spaces were contracted to build the extension. The facade design features reclaimed brick, paired with a dark timber cladding for the ultimate contemporary look, joining with the contrasting cottage through a linkway. Internally, a large and bright lounge room features solid blackbutt timber flooring, and is accompanied by a delightfully pink powder room. Views to the gum trees are taken in at both ends of the staircase leading up to a generous master bedroom. The uniquely green ensuite has been planned for and finished to the highest degree, and features a custom vanity and quality fixtures. The smooth build of this extension was achieved according to the client's expectations and budget. It is a testament to the success of the design and build process, which involves thorough planning, cost analysis, and reduces the instances of variations and unknowns.

Photo Credit: Tommy Williams
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary back terrace with a roof extension.

Granny Flat with skillion roof and red door pop
Small contemporary detached guesthouse in Sydney.

Peter Landers
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary home in Cambridgeshire.

Extension to grade 2 listed building
This is an example of a large and white contemporary bungalow brick house exterior in Kent with a hip roof.

Shoootin
Design ideas for a large contemporary galley open plan kitchen in Paris with red cabinets, red splashback and grey worktops.

Denis Oeuillet
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary guest bedroom in Lyon with red walls, light hardwood flooring and no fireplace.

Denis Oeuillet
Photo of a medium sized contemporary open plan dining room in Lyon with red walls, light hardwood flooring and a wood burning stove.

Contemporary ensuite with red feature tiles, our clients selected. The nib wall provides separation of the toilet and the frameless showerscreen gives a more open feeling, as does the wall hung vanity. Natural light and fresh air from the highlight window is a great feature.

View from kitchen to the front door
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary galley kitchen/diner in Dublin with an integrated sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, engineered stone countertops, red splashback, glass sheet splashback, stainless steel appliances, ceramic flooring and an island.

Aménagement cuisine avec ilot
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary single-wall open plan kitchen in Dijon with a submerged sink, beaded cabinets, red cabinets, laminate countertops, grey splashback, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances, ceramic flooring and an island.

To answer the Australiana brief we used barn-like massing offset by intricate timber detailing.
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary side veranda in Gold Coast - Tweed with tiled flooring and a roof extension.

glass sided balcony with planters
Medium sized contemporary glass railing balcony in Other with a roof extension.