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For homeowner and builder Blaine horton the brief was simple:
create something unique while reworking the typical family home.
“there is beauty to be found in simplicity,” enthuses tobin, “and this
was an opportunity to showcase that. our focus was on not being too
complex, or shape making for the sake of it. But rather to pull back the
ideas and achieve a timeless end result.”
From the street, the two-storey gabled form, with its single level
adjoining pavilion, ignites a sense of familiarity, drawing on the ’60s
and ’70s modernist style of architecture that dotted pre-quake
Christchurch.
Part of the success on the exterior is the uninterrupted lines of the
vertical cedar paneling across both the home and the garage. “the
cladding over the garage is flush mounted,” explains Tobin. A design
decision that transforms a mundane, essential component of the home,
into something beautiful.
While inside the simplicity of the design continues, there is no
disguising that the home is something special. Welcomed into a double
height, voluminous entry you are enveloped in a light, bright interior –
in total contrast to outside.
“It is a nice surprise,” offers tobin. “there is a sense of connection
achieved between inside and out, with the black cedar paneling running
the length of the entry and up the stairwell, but this is off-set by the
contrast of the white living space and windows out to the garden.”
Breaking the mass of the house, the entry provides a beautiful
connection between inside and out, and also between the upper
and lower levels with a custom-made floating staircase leading to the
master suite and two of the three double bedrooms.
Painted resene Black-White, the interior colour palette is simple in
its offering, but vast in its appeal with, once again, a sense of elegance
and timelessness drawing you in. running the length of the gabled
pavilion is the heart of the home, the open-plan kitchen/living/dining
area. Essential to family life the large space effortlessly acts as one, while
is also seamlessly able to function as individual spaces with a considered
lighting plan working to provide definition.
Breaking down the requirements of a traditional family home, tobin
and Blair recognised the need for privacy when it came to family
bedrooms (all discreetly tucked away on the upper level) and multiple
living spaces.
the southern side of the home (located behind the garage) is single
storey in its form and houses a formal living area and guest bedroom.
this wing of the home brings a sense of longevity to the livability of the
home, with the second living area providing scope for a growing family,
and the guest bedroom and bathroom the option for an alternate
master should the stairs become too much.
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