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The home and income in Wellington’s Eastbourne designed by Gerald Parsonson of Parsonson Architects. Gerald says the clients were wonderful to work with. “We had a really good dialogue going.”
The boardwalk approach to the main front door passes underneath the upstairs apartment. There is a courtyard next to the front door. “As you walk down the restrained boardwalk, there is a sense of release as you get to the courtyard and go in the front door,” says Gerald.
In a space next to the kitchen there is capability to add a lift to the house if required in later years. Gerald says lifts are becoming more popular. “Particularly in Wellington, we often have quite steep sites. So that adds quite a bit of value for people.”
The built-in window seat is one of many options in the house for a sunny spot to sit. Sturdy timber shelving adds weight to the room, and the clients helped choose the mid-century furnishings.
The blue doors slide away to open the den to the lounge. “That flexible room was quite important, a room that they could close down to watch TV or be part of the living main living space.” The house also has a study/workroom.
An existing pōhutukawa tree is on the corner of the property. “The master bedroom looks through the pōhutukawa tree out to the street, which is quite pretty.”
“The house has a relationship to the beach. There are a lot of decks, there's an outdoor shower and you can walk straight into the bathroom from the outside.”
“We used the battens on the stairwell wall to run the handrail through small circular cutouts. The idea just popped out of my head at one point. It can be tricky to know how to do your brackets for the handrails.”
The upstairs one-bedroom apartment shares its design style with the main house. There are glimpses of sea view from the kitchen sink.
With its water views and pops of colour, the rental apartment is always popular, says Gerald. “It’s like a little retreat up there.”
A cosy house was part of the brief. “It can get windy in Wellington so it was about having places to be in the sun and being able to close up one side and open up to another. It's a really warm house. It's very well insulated.”

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Parsonson Architects was established in 1987 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand. The practice has focused primarily on individual houses and aims to produce work with a high level of sensitivity and discipline, engaging the spirit of each owner and site. More recently projects have included apartment buildings, retail fit outs in North America and Europe and competition entries across a variety of building types and project scales.

The practice is recognised as consistently delivering work of excellence, represented by the major awards and regular features in both local and international architecture and design publications. 

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