SPACE TO SOAR

CUSTOMISED FOR A FAMILY OF FIVE, A SPACIOUS AND SUMPTUOUS NEW BUILD SOUTH OF SYDNEY RETAINS TOUCHES OF THE PAST AND HONOURS THE COLOURS AND TEXTURES OF ITS SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE

- KARINA MACHADO

Melanie and Frank had always shared a dream of laying down roots where it all began. The idea took shape in 2009 when they lived in their first home, a two-bedroom beachside apartment in the Illawarra region of NSW, close to the suburb where they’d both grown up. “We always wanted to come back to where we grew up,” says Melanie. “We were looking around and we found the property and it had a little cottage on it. It was over 100 years old, but the land size was really large, and we always knew we wanted to build. It was that dream to build a beautiful house for our family.”