Drummoyne Alterations and Additions

This was a challenging, while interesting project: a Victorian heritage house with a mezzanine yurt at the rear that had been added in the 1980's. A combination of the yurt and the original laundry/kitchen layout meant that the house failed to integrate with the yard, didn't provide a suitable relationship between the kitchen and dining/living area, failed to deliver privacy to upstairs bedrooms and offered poor circulation downstairs.  The project involved demolishing the yurt and several small service rooms at the rear and decommissioning the scullery stairs. A large living dining/dining/kitchen area was added at the rear with timber doors opening onto the yard. The side rear veranda was enclosed and became the main corridor connecting the new addition with the original house. This change aided movement around the ground floor by aggregating all circulation along the eastern side of the house. Door openings to the original kitchen and storage room were closed up and new ones opened onto the new corridor. The old kitchen was redesigned to be a new bathroom.

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