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It is always a challenge to renovate and extend a traditional heritage home, but for designer Zoe Murphy, it was an exciting opportunity to create something both beautiful and genre-bending.
A family home for Zoe, husband Ben with children Myra, 10, and Roy, 8, the inner-city Victorian terrace was full of heritage features, but needed a few adaptations for modern family living.
"We bought it about five years ago and it already had a small renovation on the back," Zoe explains. "It was quite cute, but small. So, we lived in it for two years while we drew up some plans, redesigned it and built it during the first COVID lockdown period."
The renovation
The front four rooms of the house were largely untouched structurally, but updated through the use of rich, moody colours, while Zoe concentrated her efforts on the rear of the house, working with architects Cera Stribley to create a new open-plan living and dining area, along with a second storey.
"The previous owners had put a small mid-century extension on the back, which I was quite impressed by," she says. "I wanted to replicate that because I really quite liked the juxtaposition of the two periods."
Part of the new design involved the choice of PGH's elegant and streamlined Morada Linear bricks in Blanco, which were used in the new open-plan living space, fireplace surround and extending to the outside.
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