Daw Park — Renovation

A growing family, a heritage-fronted home, and no wish to move out for the build.

The answer was to build the place they'd live in first.

Stage one delivered the pool, the pool house and the rear garden. The pool house, with its own kitchenette, bathroom, sauna and office, then became home while stage two opened up the main house behind its heritage frontage: a new rear extension, a reworked floor plan built around open-plan and outdoor living, and a renovation of every room.

We timed the slab to go down the day before Christmas Eve so it could cure over the break, with framing straight after, and had the roof on and locked up before the winter rains.

Details

‍Stage one (2023 – 2024):

Pool and spa · Gable pool house with kitchenette, bathroom, sauna and office · Honed white polished concrete floors · Wet-lay limestone paving · Irregular sandstone feature walling · Curved burnished concrete fire pit with limestone crazy pave · Lawns, planting, automated irrigation and garden lighting

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Stage two (2025 – 2026):

Heritage frontage retained · Rear demolition and new extension · Floor plan reworked for open-plan and outdoor living · Renovation to every room · Honed white polished concrete with underfloor heating · Herringbone timber hallway · Arched openings, high ceilings, skylights · Full plumbing, electrical and sewer upgrade · Front landscape to follow

Living in it

‍Old meeting new, done in the right order. The heritage face stays as it was, while behind it, skylights and high ceilings pull light deep into the house and arched openings lead straight out to the garden built in stage one. Pale concrete floors stay warm underfoot through winter, and the pool, the fire pit and the pool house were part of family life long before the main house was finished.