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Arriving at Debbie Vanderhoek and John Gordon's reworked eastern suburbs terrace, the visitor feels an overwhelming sense of poetry. Stepping stones set in a black pebble-bottomed causeway leapfrog from the front gate and continue underneath the door to form a watery corridor leading into the house.
Vanderhoek cheerfully admits that when planning their new home she and Gordon were design pirates, appropriating ideas from five-star hotels they had visited. These concepts were sketched for architects Nadia Cohen and Mitch Lichtman of Folk Lichtman & Associates to interpret and incorporate into their design.
The brief was somewhat unusual - a Balinese terrace house with New York loft overtones. The idea was to capture the tranquillity of Balinese indoor/outdoor design combined with the openness of loft living .
The Asian influence is evident in the blurring of the inside and out. Downstairs, three-leaf, interlocking steel doors slide into side cavities. A wide, long bench extends out from the informal lounge area, ending in a pontoon over a slatelined pool .
Upstairs the main bedroom opens onto a balcony overlooking the back garden.
The house was divided into two pavilions joined by a staircase with a glazed roof that infuses the centre of the house with light.
Skylights have been added to good effect, not only adding light but also framing the sky and reinforcing the contact with nature.
Natural textures and colours predominate, and the overwhelming feeling is of serenity .
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