With a brief calling for open-plan living and brighter interiors, this 1920s Parkview home offered Meshworks numerous opportunities for intervention. Resembling a Dutch barn without the characteristic gable ends, the house’s original geometric, faceted profile and dormer windows gave it a quirky elegance beyond its more conventional heritage features such as pressed metal ceilings and Oregon pine floors. Meshworks proposed a string of largely interior alterations.

Upstairs, a compartmentalised loft space was opened out and extended north, letting in more light and air for its new incarnation as a playroom and writing studio. Downstairs, with the removal of several walls, the heart of the house, the kitchen, was opened up on three sides to light and garden views and remodelled. The dark cubicles of the main bedroom suite - a decade-old addition - were collapsed into a larger, combined bathroom and dressing space. In balancing the new work with the house’s heritage aspects, we left traces of these layers of history wherever possible.