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With its main street Newcastle location and shop front facade, you would never guess there's a spacious Newcastle apartment behind these walls. And before its transformation into an inner city home, this big old building was in fact a Pizza Hut.
The building started its life as two joint warehouses in 1906. Before buying the property, the owners approached EJE Architecture and asked them to evaluate the site. Once they had confirmation the former fast food shop could be transformed into a comfortable home, they purchased the property and the renovations began.
Over the years, the building had been refurbished several times. Despite this, the structure was basically unchanged, giving the architects 280 square metres of floor space to work with. This made it easy to create the open plan living area and divide the building into rooms.
With its large floor space, the building only has a 1.4 metre deep light well. This made it difficult to incorporate natural light and ventilation into the home. After careful consideration, it was decided the best way to ventilate and light each room in the house was by the creation of a central indoor courtyard.
The courtyard is attached to a rear balcony and channels natural light inside. It's in effect a large light well, with a polycarbonate roof capturing the sun. A glass wall off the living room emits light, as does a series of open brick archways along the adjoining wall.
The open plan design of the courtyard also enables cross ventilation. In winter, it is possible to close the courtyard off from the balcony with very large, heavy looking timber doors. The area attracts a lot of birds, especially pigeons, so timber framed screens on the balcony stop the birds flying inside the house when the courtyard doors are open.
The owners wanted to maintain much of the building's original appearance. So, they decided to make the exposed brickwork and original timber beams a feature of the home, rather than to hide them away during the renovation. This required the brick archways to be stripped of several layers of paint.
Another important part of the renovation was patching and polishing the timber floorboards. These run through most of the house, except for the balcony and courtyard, which are paved.
The owners run a home decorating store called Villa Clone, and thus took charge of the furnishings themselves. A bright red feature wall in the open plan living room blends with the exposed bricks. Richly coloured furniture, is carefully placed to maximise the space and complement the structure and style of the property. |
More Info
For more information contact EJE Architecture.
412 King Street
Newcastle NSW 2300
Ph: 02 4929 2353
Fax: 02 4926 3069
E-mail: mail@eje.com.au
www.eje.com.au
For more information on Villa Clone contact the store.
140 King Street
Newcastle NSW
Ph: 02 4926 2769
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