This beau­ti­ful exam­ple of a mid-cen­tu­ry home, was up until recent­ly the res­i­dence of the orig­i­nal archi­tect Har­ry Ernst who designed it in 1968. A strong col­lab­o­ra­tion with the new own­ers Andrew and Eliza, Bow­er Archi­tec­ture and Inte­ri­ors and Fiona Brock­hhoff Design cre­at­ed a light and warm, faith­ful­ly restored and ren­o­vat­ed court­yard home. The orig­i­nal inbuilt teak fur­ni­ture was removed from site, repaired, mod­i­fied, restored and rein­te­grat­ed back into the new home. Due to the unavail­abil­i­ty on Teak veneer, a suit­able alter­na­tive was found in Queens­land Red Cedar after an exten­sive search and sam­pling process. 

This tim­ber was then used in the new pieces of fur­ni­ture and doors and assist in the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the exist­ing fur­ni­ture. Orig­i­nal light fit­tings were ren­o­vat­ed, relamped and repur­posed. Sol­id teak tim­ber to match the exist­ing door frames was sourced from ship builders in New South Wales. The gold­en cir­cu­lar sky­lights were spun from sheet met­al in Mel­bourne. Great care was tak­en in the inte­gra­tion of new high per­for­mance large dou­ble glazed tim­ber win­dows. Crisp Projects are immense­ly proud of this project and grate­ful to the own­ers for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to help in the restora­tion and sav­ing of a Bay­side Mid Cen­tu­ry Modern.