Yarra Street

Architecture: Maxa Design
Interiors: Hearth Studios + HeHe Design
Landscape Design: Esjay Landscapes + Platylobium
Photography: Marnie Hawson

With a gentle push, a wall of tilt windows opens up to connect the heart of this family home with the great outdoors. Warm timber cladding meets landscaped gardens and the surrounding bush.

View of a modern house with wooden panel walls, large glass sliding doors, and surrounding greenery with tropical plants.
A family enjoying time outside a modern house with wooden exterior and large windows, surrounded by trees and rocks.

A series of vegetable gardens, chicken yards and play spaces create areas for everyone to enjoy outside with every part of the sloping block maximised.

A woman and two children playing on a slide in a lush backyard with a dog, trees, and various plants.

In the home office, walls feature surplus OSP panels. Every fixture from the windows to the desk uses reclaimed materials from other sites.

Man working on a laptop at a wooden desk in a room with oriented strand board walls and a window with a view outside. There are potted plants on a white surface to the right.
Family enjoying a backyard firepit with two children and two adults sitting on a wooden bench, surrounded by trees and plants.
Modern house exterior with wooden siding and a small landscaped garden with trees and rocks.
Modern dining area with wooden table and chairs, large glass window overlooking a garden with trees and a wooden fence.
Modern dining area with a wooden table, six chairs, a vase with flowers, and large windows showing a garden with trees, plants, and a wooden fence.

Every aspect of the extension has a connection with the outdoors. 

The flooring is a completely insulated burnished slab, while the joinery features American Oak veneer, and stonetops are tundra marble.

Woman in a beige dress is washing dishes at a kitchen sink with wooden cabinets and gray countertops.
Modern kitchen with wooden cabinets, granite island, black chairs, pendant lights, small window, potted plant, and wall-mounted TV.
Woman working on a laptop at a white desk in a minimalist home office with white walls, wooden floors, decorative plants, and built-in white cabinets.
Bedroom with white bed, multiple pillows, wooden headboard, modern pendant lights, large window with black frame, greenery outside, and wooden trim
A modern bathroom with a white bathtub, black walls, and a wooden accent wall. There are hanging plants, a woven basket with towels, and a window high on the wall letting in natural light.
A minimalist entryway with a black console table holding decorative vases and a basket, a large abstract black-and-white artwork above, a tall black mirror on the right, and three woven pendant lights overhead.

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