How do you add to a Heritage Bungalow without pasting old character onto the new additions?

One of our earliest projects. Our clients, (one a heritage consultant) were seeking a house that would open up to the rear garden, but be sympathetic to the heritage listed Californian Bungalow.

The additions reinterpret the ‘lean-to’ roof and then reinvert the roof towards the garden as a skillion that borrows detailing from the bungalow’s projecting awnings and exposed timber rafters.

Facing north-west, external louvre blinds protect the interior from the harsh sun, yet on those occasions when extended family come over, the back opens up like a big verandah over a deck that allows the life of the party and the home to spill out to the exterior.

The result is true contemporary living with a respect for the character of the existing house thereby truly ‘modernising the bungalow’.