If a home with texture gets your heart racing, you’ve come to the right place. Think terrazzo flooring, steel and reeded glass doors, timber batten and natural stone kitchen island. All found within the four walls of this beautiful modern art deco home.
We take a look around Wattle Valley Road, a project curated by Anna Wood, Interior Designer at Picchio Interiors.
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Home to a family of 4, Wattle Valley Road was crying out for a makeover.
“This home is situated in a leafy street in Camberwell, Victoria. It’s an art deco home with a lot of period features. Prior to this renovation, the family was stuck with a bad ’90s reno,” Anna says.
“It has 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and had a really disjointed layout. The family was living with a ’90s kitchen and really struggling for space.
“The kitchen was very pokey and it had a virtually inaccessible laundry. There was dead space and an empty carport at the back door of the property. It was space that just wasn’t being utilised.
“My task was to help improve the flow of the home and update the floor plan. They wanted a solution to create a much bigger, useable kitchen and pantry, as well as a services space — laundry, mudroom, storage.
The brief was to modernise the interior but stay sympathetic to the art deco surrounds. The family was also keen on a monochrome colour palette.
What Anna created was a modern art deco home with layer upon layer of glorious texture.
“The home is definitely art deco in architecture with a lot of period features. The new extension has a modern aesthetic but with a definite nod to the art deco surrounds of the original home,” Anna explains.
“Many of the textured elements took their inspiration from details and shapes of the original home. Reeded glass inserts in the steel sliding doors directly reference some of the original glass in the front door and the 1930s double lounge room doors.
“Following the design principle of repetition, the battening on the island and in the mudroom followed suit accordingly.
“The terrazzo flooring is also a modern take on the original terrazzo used on the front porch of the home and is very much at home in a modern art deco building.
“The marble mosaic, zig zag floor in the main downstairs bathroom is reminiscent of many of the shapes used in the art deco era.”
The monochrome palette of this modern art deco masterpiece is anything but plain.
“I just love the natural stone used in the kitchen, pantry and living spaces. It’s like a work of art. I also can’t get enough of the reeded glass and steel doors that so elegantly separate the zones of the home,” gushes Anna.
“The improved flow and functionality of the home has made such a huge improvement to how the family lives with their home now. Seeing them enjoy and love being in their home is the best feeling.”
Credits
Builder — Shepherd Builders
Photography — Suzi Appel
Styling — Michelle Hart, Bask Interiors
Thank you so much to Anna for showing us around this modern art deco beauty. To see more projects from Picchio Interiors, be sure to take a look at their website, or scroll their Instagram feed. We’re not sure which feature we love the most. The reeded glass doors? The terrazzo floors? That fabulous zig zag tiled bathroom? What’s your fave? Tell us in the comment section below.
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