Light that hides its source
LED strip lighting is recessed into the underside of every open shelf. You see the glow, never the fitting.
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Mitchell ACT 2911
Australia
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Custom HomeJacka · Gungahlin2024
Purcell Residence II
A Jacka family home planned around the kitchen, with the everyday mess kept out of sight.
The family came to us with a clear list: four bedrooms, a room for grandparents to stay, and a kitchen big enough for everyone to cook together on a Sunday. Because we offer design and construction in Canberra under one contract, we could work through the plan with them, drawing by drawing, until the kitchen sat at the centre of the house, with living, dining and the rear garden all opening off it.
The kitchen itself pairs smoked oak and painted timber joinery, with backlit open shelving either side of the rangehood and a butler's pantry hidden behind a full-height door, so the mess of cooking never reaches the dining table.
Site area
700 m²
Internal
256 m²
Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
3
Garage
Double
Star rating
7.6
Photographs
On site in Jacka.
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- 01Kitchen, living and dining planned as one connected space
- 02Two-tone joinery in smoked oak veneer and satin-painted timber
- 03Backlit open shelving either side of the rangehood
- 04Butler's pantry with its own sink and dishwasher
- 05Guest bedroom with its own ensuite for visiting family
- 067-star thermal shell with upgraded wall and ceiling insulation
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 pantry that disappears
The butler's pantry door is flush-finished in the same veneer as the cabinetry either side, so at a glance it isn't there at all.
A room for visiting family
The guest bedroom sits at the opposite end of the house from the main suite, with its own ensuite, so grandparents can stay for a week without anyone feeling in the way.
Where it stands
Jacka,
Gungahlin.
- Client
- Growing family
- Build time
- 12 months
- Delivered
- 2024
