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With a prominent garage out front, seen from the street at night, a new entrance offers a warm and welcoming navigational cue to visitors. The street elevation shows the existing building with it's new dark-stained cedar cladding, aluminium roofing and en
The entrance has perforated metal panels defined with gold piping when lit up at night.
Perforated metal screens adopt the metaphor of a shirt cuff to define the entry. 
The house sits right on the water and is overlooked by houses above, making the roof a fifth elevation for the architects to consider.
A view of The Tailored Home from the waters of Hobson Bay in Parnell.
An outdoor room is the perfect waterside place to lounge during the warmer months.
View of the main living area and, above, the master bedroom with its sheltered balcony.
Lots of texture and pattern adds interest to the natural palette of materials.
Louves help to shade the interior from the northern sunlight and create a horizontal pinstriped effect on the exterior and in the shadows cast on the floor.
At high tide, the kitchen and dining area sits right beside the water.
Floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and louvres offer options to open and close down the waterfront façade, adding protection and privacy.
A glazed part of the roof draws light into the main kitchen/living space.
The main entrance enjoys a view of trees on the other side of the house.
A cedar-cladd overhang provides shelter over the front entrance.
The mesh creates a fabric-like bias through directional back lighting
Internal screening matches the exterior features.
Perforated metal panels adds a fabric-like texture to features throughout the house.
Shadows cast by the louvres.
Narrow boards of black-stained cedar cladding create a pinstriped effect.
A new skylight fills the stairwell with light.
The guest bathroom on the upper-level enjoys a waterfront view.
The master bedroom and en suite bathroom.

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Lloyd Hartley Architects