Barry St Renovation

​Project Name: Barry St Renovation

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This renovation of a traditional Victorian Terrace house in a superb location, just off High Street, Northcote was the epitome of breathing life back into a cold, leaky and rundown home. The original home was dark and claustrophobic with many small add-ons combining to make a great mess of rooms without any purpose or function.

With interior design from the all inspiring Heartly Design Studio the home opened up into a beautiful, spacious and light-filled home.

The construction process got off to a rocky start (pun intended) with an excessive amount of rock found in the ground. We remove boulder after boulder. As is typical with a Victorian Terrace the home was built boundary to boundary on a very narrow site. We had to be very careful on the removal of some boulders to ensure the neighbouring foundations weren’t bearing on them. All in all it was a laborious but efficient process of rock removal.

The works added a second story with two bedrooms and an ensuite while totally reconfiguring and opening up the ground floor living space below. Adding a second story exposed the home to the harsh western sun. A solution for this was to increase the insulation to the first floor externals walls.

The dirt. and the rock at the beginning of a project is always forgotten about when the home is completed and clients get to move into a home as beautiful, high performing and comfortable as this one.