80s be gone

80s be gone is the complete internal renovation of an attached dwelling first built in the 1980s. The client's brief was direct: maximise the space, remove the eighties, and deliver a sharp, refined home.

The work centred on integrated joinery and the selective removal of walls to open up the plan. Where doors once stood, the joinery itself now forms the route between rooms, giving the interior a quiet sense of discovery as you move through it. Natural materials carry the palette throughout.

Several rooms turn to the site for their character. Carefully placed glass viewing panels frame the sandstone rock face at the rear of the property, artificially lit so it reads as a feature rather than a boundary.

The project covers 200 m2 across three levels on a 400 m2 site.

Architecture by Hobbs Jamieson Architecture, with Adam Hobbs as project architect. Photography by Luc Remond.