Two living rooms, by design
The front lounge and the rear family room sit at opposite ends of the house, so a movie night and a quiet conversation can happen at the same time.
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Custom HomeChifley · Woden Valley2022
McDonald Residence
A Chifley family home with two living areas and an outdoor kitchen for long summer evenings.
Families often come to home builders in Canberra asking for more room. This one, with three children heading into their teenage years, needed something more specific, space to be together and space to get away from each other. The plan gives them both: a formal lounge at the front of the house for quiet evenings, and a large family room at the back that opens onto the garden.
The outdoor kitchen was part of the brief from day one. It sits under cover against a brick wall, with a servery window through to the butler's pantry, so food and drinks pass straight out to the terrace without anyone walking through the house.
Site area
720 m²
Internal
290 m²
Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
3
Garage
Double
Star rating
7.2
Photographs
On site in Chifley.
Shot over three visits, at dawn, midday and dusk, so the material palette reads the way the family will actually live in it.
What's inside
The specification, in plain English.
Every line here is something we insisted on, not something added to fatten a quote.
Ask about this specification- 01Separate formal lounge and family living areas
- 02Covered outdoor kitchen with sink, bench space and weatherproof cabinetry
- 03Servery window linking the butler's pantry to the outdoor kitchen
- 04Main ensuite with a double vanity and twin mirrors
- 05Engineered timber flooring through all living areas
- 06Landscaped rear garden with stone retaining walls
Signature moments
The things worth
pointing out.
Small decisions that only reveal themselves once you're living in the house. These are ours for this project.
A window that does the walking
The servery window between the pantry and the outdoor kitchen turns a dozen trips through the house into a simple pass across the bench.
A double vanity for busy mornings
Each basin in the main ensuite has its own mirror and storage, so getting ready on a school morning never means waiting your turn.
Where it stands
Chifley,
Woden Valley.
- Client
- Family of five
- Build time
- 12 months
- Delivered
- 2022
