A Minimalist Home Made of Timber, Concrete and Stone (House Tour)

Located on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula, Barwon Heads House by Adam Kane Architects sees an old weatherboard house transformed into a minimalist home by a contemporary extension that both sympathises and contrasts with the original house on site. Playing with the elements of dark and light, the minimalist architecture utilises dark concrete and metal together with custom-stained timber from Made by Storey, resulting in an interior that is simultaneously constrained and carefree, shadowy and bright. The transition from the old house to the new minimalist home is a journey of compression and release, through a dark, constrained hallway into an open-plan, voluminous space. Lined in Made by Storey engineered wooden boards in a custom colour and naturally illuminated by expansive windows, this space is pared back to its essence, creating a minimalist expression of detail, space, and form. Two key elements of the design emphasise and make use of the significant volume of the new extension. An LED light strip i