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One Wybelenna Brisbane, Australia by Shaun Lockyer Architects

Welcome to our gallery featuring the beautiful One Wybelenna Brisbane. A stunning home by Queensland architects; Shaun Lockyer Architects. All photographs were taken by Scott Burrows.

One Wybelenna Brisbane Summary:

One Wybelenna was a house born out of a remnant of a Robin Gibson cottage that existed on the site and was a bit of a landmark in the area. The design, inspired by the work of both Gibson (and Neutra in turn) is a contemporary re-interpretation of the modernist language and remains a narrative throughout the design down to the “orb” fireplace.

The house enjoys a long, linear plan with all rooms designed to soak up winter sun and give direct pool and garden access for the long summers. The house, despite its size, has a strong sustainability agenda and includes turf roofs, 140,000L of water, 15KW of solar power, recycled materials (stone and timber) along with all the “first principal” design ideas that one would expect.

Conceptual Framework:

This project was born out of a remnant of a Robin Gibson cottage that existed on the site. The design, inspired by the work of both Gibson (and Neutra in turn) is a contemporary re- interpretation of the modernist language. The planning is defined by stone blades that bisect the house and delineate living zones and pavilions.

A 25m pool defines the northern edge of the property and is bookended with dramatic outdoor living areas, both enjoying tall volumes and fire places. A turf roof covers the garaging and allows the house to ground itself into the existing contour of the land. A natural palette of zinc, tallowwood, slate and travertine create a robust aesthetic that aims toward a timeless architecture.

The house enjoys a long, linear plan with all rooms designed to soak up winter sun.

Public and Cultural Benefits:

The old Gibson cottage was a well known structure along Moggil Road that resonated with passers-by and people irrespective of their architectural understanding. The continued dialogue of this language of architecture and the sustained existence of a stone pavilion in the original location maintains the house’s place in locals’ memory.

In addition to this, the boundary fencing has been pulled back off the street to give over a significant landscape zone to the public realm, and in so doing maintains the sense of the house as a pavilion in the landscape.

Relationship of Built Form to Context:

The new guest pavilion sits on the original footprint of the Gibson cottage and re-uses the original stone (as has been preserved in every location possible). In addition to this, the original structural language and methods have been reinterpreted into a contemporary equivalent while avoiding mimicry of any form.

Program Resolution: Functional Performance Assessed Against the Brief

The planning of the house is all about functional living (therefore zoned for family living) while equally prioritising solar orientation (and view). To this end, the linear nature of the house addresses and responds to both of these agendas.

Integration of Allied Disciplines:

The structural method, integration of stone masons and landscape design are key aspects of the design and were considered from the outset, as was the environmental design strategy.

Response to Client Needs:

The clients were particularly concerned with preservation of habitat and reuse of original site materials whilst maintaining a contemporary, reinterpretation of the original architecture. To this end, the original swimming pool was reused as a water tank and all of the existing stone was reclaimed.
The turf roof provides an ongoing habitat for a plover (native bird species) family originally occupying the site, whilst simultaneously reducing glare and allowing the house to merge within the preserved landscape.

Sustainability

One Wybelenna, while a luxury house, has a strong sustainability agenda. Apart from the obvious ‘first principal’ approach to the design with regards to northern sun, cross flow ventilation and thermal mass, a number of more sophisticated ideas have been incorporated.

The house has been thermally engineered and wind patterns mapped, turf roofs as well as 140,000L of water (in the reused shell of the old swimming pool), 15kw of solar power, recycled timber (and some of the stone) and low-e glass. 300 additional trees have also been planted in the waterway area.

The Design Team

Shaun Lockyer – Design Principal; Shane Marsh – Project Architect; Lucy Hyndman – Architect; Richard Pain – Draftsman; Corinne Bolton – Interior Designer Structural Engineer: Bligh Tanner (Rod Bligh)
Landscaping: Boss Landscapes (Jim & Micky Stewart)
Arborist: Bunya Solutions (Peter Bishop)

Website Link: http://lockyerarchitects.com.au/project/one-wybelenna-2012/
Floor Area: 1012 sqm

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Modern Living Room Interior Design Decorating Ideas

Living Room Interior Design -Exquisite modern luxurious living area with highly polished timber flooring, white lounge furniture and walls and an olive green patterned feature wall

This image is a simply exquisite example of living room interior design showing a modern luxurious living area with highly polished timber flooring, white lounge furniture and walls and an olive green patterned feature wall.

Living room areas can be modern, or minimalist, comfortable and relaxing or classic and sophisticated. As people, we often all like different things and have different tastes in decor, furnishings and decoration. The living rooms we display in this gallery are for those people that love modern, and contemporary.

Here you’ll find a number of sensationally designed living rooms that have been decorated with style and care. The furnishings and furniture that have gone into completing these rooms are high quality and are chosen either for the symbiotic tonings of the whole room, or else they have been selected to create accents and standouts from would otherwise be a fairly blank canvas of color.

The living space in any home can become anything you wish it to be. If you like the style of the decor presented here and would like to recreate something similar, its a matter of staring with a blank canvas, set the room color and tonings. White always makes for the greatest flexibility. Then its a matter of choosing the furniture and then the color accents which are usually the soft furnishings.

A stunning white living room and furniture showing the real effectiveness of adding color to a room with vivid purple display cabinet and carpet rug against a dark brown timber flooring

Cream leather L shaped lounge suite with matching lamp, floor rug and table on a light timber floor set against individual book shelves against a concrete wall.

Sun drenched living area in elevated apartment with ocean outlook. White walls, white modern furniture, and brown timber flooring features in this minimalist styled room

Stunning distant city views from this awesome large open plan living area with designer sofa, matching beautiful large floor rug, egg chair, white walls, timber panelled flooring and an awesome modern wall cabinet

Fantastic contemporary living area. Grey walls with large artwork, white lounge furniture and large floor rug set the scene against grey floor tiles

This is a cosy compact living room with large entertainment unit, simple lounge seating, timber flooring and lovely chocolate brown floor rug

A really relaxed modern living area with ample comfortable soft cushioned seating, tiled flooring and architectural walls all in neutral earthy tones apart from red corner arm sofa

Cosy living area with interesting honey colored timber tiled ceiling, caramel brown walls, cream carpet and a simple corner lounge suite all in matching neutral tones

Beautiful living room area at the foot of stairs. Creative wallpaper on the walls, a floor rug on grey tiles, timber wall panel with TV and a contemporary sofa and chair give a comfortable feeling to this contemporary home.

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Wall Art, Wallpaper & Interior Decoration Ideas

The above image which shows dark grey painted walls with a feature brick wall and stunning green toned wall art tree pictures shows the effects f thinking about your wall color, your adornment of those walls with pictures or paintings and also the impact of texture by way of the brick.

Walls are where a home really comes to life. A home with no decoration of its walls is often lifeless and empty. Even minimalist lovers put something (but not a lot) on their walls for visual effect. The decoration of your home’s walls is most often by way of paintings, or art, or even just a really impactive for of wallpaper, or perhaps a feature wall with just a standout color on one wall, or even some really expensive patterned wallpaper that again provides a visual focal point.

Many people choose to use texture as well as color on their walls. Texture add a new sense of dimension to a room and provides more flexibility to add additional features to create that visual effect.

This gallery shows a number of examples of various rooms in the house and how these rooms have been transformed from boring bland spaces to rooms with life, and vitality along with a sense of what make’s these rooms part of a genuine home

Green interior walls with yellow inset shelves and colored vases

Classic vintage style furniture and vertical lined wallpaper with four blank wall canvasses.

Three contemporary paintings under lamps against an unpainted concrete wall in an empty room

Sensational tan colored rough brick wall in a room with armchairs and potted palm plant

Elegant, modern bedroom with framed art and contemporary matching wallpaper

Open plan modern luxury home interior living room with stone wall and fireplace

Fascinating unpainted concrete wall with a number of featured multi colored hexagonal shapes and matching furnishings

Interior design of modern white living room with big white sofa, beige colored painted walls and massive contemporary wall mural

Interior of a modern living room, with wooden floor, floral wallpaper and two brown modern armchairs with fabric matching the wallpaper

Bright and colorful retro modern living room with purple and yellow painted walls and orange ceiling

Contemporary red white and black modern living room with black couch concrete wall with colorful matching art picture

Luxurious modern interior bedroom with interesting up arrow design wallpaper, matching lights and a contrasting cream headboard

Modern style bedroom interior with purple fabric wallpaper and grey block effect feature over the bed

Contemporary black and white living room with two leather armchair in front a geometrical wallpaper and grey painted wall with black and white art piece

Living room with glossy wallpaper, and a luxury couch with similar fabric and a ceiling lamp and recessed wall lighting

White vases contrasted against the effect of a multi colored shelf and wall

Open plan designer living room and kitchen area with black floral motif wallpaper on white wall

Interior scene with classic armchair and lamp with a black on dark grey designer wallpaper

Beautiful modern patterned red and white floral type wallpaper with contrasting sofa and trendy lamp

Modern interior living room with exclusive black on grey patterned wallpaper with prominent tv and speakers set

Stairs, Stairways, Staircases and Steps

Staircases -Interior of Modern Entrance Hall with Black and White Stairs

For homes that have two, three or more levels, when it comes to the design and build stage, staircases are often an afterthought, and consequently a set of stairs can look out of place or not suiting the overall look of the home. Whereas on the other hand, with enough consideration, thought, and planning, a set of stairs can be come a real focal feature of a home.

Its important whether you have an older home, are building a new one, or are simply doing a makeover to spend the time and effort researching the ways of creating a set of stairs, where in your home to locate them and then the way they are built and crafted.

The treads, the risers, the style, the width, the balustrades, the handrails. In fact all the components that go into a set of stairs should be considered with respect to the look and feel of the rest of the home. By doing that, you will end up with a staircase you can be proud of and that will add value to your home.

Interior of the above home’s contemporary modern entrance hallway with its contrasting black and white stairs makes a real statement. With the solid white walls, and floor, having the white steps on black provides a real focal point and makes these stairs a positive feature of this home

This shot shows part of modern hallway interior with a metal staircase created in a minimalism style, and stainless steel handrail. The pot plant and the flooring add a unique contrast to this stairway

This is a spiral staircase in the modern wooden house. Spiral staircases are typically used where there is limited space to include a full scale set of stairs.

This modern staircase is crafted completely in oak timber. It has a feel of quality and a look of class and with oak being a hard wearing timber, this stairway is likely to maintain its finish and look of quality for years to come

This room has the ultimate in minimalist interior staircases with a set of handsfree freestanding stairs. With each step practically cantilevered from the wall, with no handrail, the look is effective and stunning. No kids allowed

A stunning smart spiral black staircase in a modern open plan apartment. leading to an upper landing it takes up very little floor space and sits relatively unobtrusively against a wall. The winding handrail is a focal feature for this amazing staircase

This is a very classy home corridor with fancy dark colored wooden stairs. The retro chair, the bespoke metal handrail and the two toned floor tiles add to the interestingness of this corridor

A stunning marbled entranceway with marble staircase and timber and metal hand railing, a feature inlay in the marble floor adds to the sophistication and a stylish lift with see through walls completes the picture

This modern house interior features an impressive looking contemporary staircase with steel side stringers, stretched wire reinforcing as the balustrade and a timber handrail to match the steps and the highly polished timber floor. A small landing halfway up adds to the interest

A cool modern staircase in an exposed brick walled home with tiled floor. The dark colored wood of the steps and the matching colored door create the contrast against the exposed bricks and the stainless steel balustrade and dark metal handrail create a very stylish look

An open foyer in a modern home with white walls and contrasting blue carpeted spiral stairs with enclosed balustrade and light colored timber handrail.

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Modern Master Bedroom Interior Design Ideas

Master Bedroom Interior Design Ideas on full display with this absolutely 'to die for' views

Planning your master bedroom interior design ideas for the most important bedroom in the home is what will give you a result and an overall design you can be proud of in one of the most important rooms in the home. It’s where you lay your head at night and spend almost a third of your life, therefore doesn’t it make sense to make it the most relaxing, comforting place it can be?

It should always be the largest bedroom in the home and ideally, it should have its own bathroom/ensuite. If you’re fortunate enough to have copious amounts of space to also include a chair or two, then you really do have what can be termed a master bedroom.

This gallery of Master bedrooms primarily includes bedrooms from the luxurious end of the market. Most of these are grand on scale and on decoration. There are several modern, contemporary styles as well for the more ‘modernistic decor lover’. Overall, the styles are quite opulent, reflecting vast wealth and individual style. Hopefully, these master bedrooms will you some ideas for your own home, especially when it comes to colors, layout, furnishings and materials.

You’ll note that most of the color schemes chosen by these master bedroom owners is neutral, earthy colored tones. This seems to be the current trend, and whilst some choose to brighten the rooms up with accents of bold color, others choose not to, it’s all about your own personal taste and choice.

The top image is our featured image for the page and features an apartment master bedroom, with a sensation elevated view, a very spacious minimalist decor with just a plant, a chair and a bed on a large rug. A small balcony completes the picture. Imagine waking up to this view each and every day.

This modern luxury master bedroom interior has timber rich detail finishes. Timber built in cabinetry, light colored timber floors, wooden table and chairs and luxurious creamy colored bed linen finish the picture.

This is a very large luxury master bedroom with neutral colored tonings and has its very own separate sitting room and even has enough space in the master room to fit an extended sofa.

This master bedroom is resplendent in its contrasting tones of black and blue along with neutral furnishing tones to balance the picture. Two neutral easy sitting chairs give the room an overall feeling and sense of comfort and relaxation.

This large master bedroom with its four poster bed makes a real opulent statement of luxury. With its dark chocolate colored furniture and bed frame, it is subtly balanced with green soft furnishings and cream colored carpeting and walls

With its subdued lightening and modern bed style and adjacent sofa, this room exudes sensuality, romance and sophistication. Finished in neutral toned soft furnishings, subtle wall art and modern patterned wallpaper, this master bedroom is perfect that late evening rendezvous with your lover.

A four poster bed is the central feature to this large master bedroom with dark timber floors, double french doors, turkish rug, and beautiful mauve colored walls.

A luxurious master bedroom with light timber features throughout the room. A modern fireplace sits directly in front of the bed with a steady supply of stacked wood for cold wintry evenings. An elevated TV completes the picture of snug nights, cuddled up in bed watching a movie.

If you love looking up into the stars and the night sky, then having double skylights like in this master bedroom will suit you down to the ground. With luxurious blue carpeting and contrasting chocolate brown bedding and soft grey walls, everything is set for a glorious evening display of stars.

This bedroom is fantastic for its voluminous space. It also boasts not only a Master bed that sits near classic windows but a full scale sitting area with two chairs, a sofa, and even a compact TV and video

This master bedroom has very solid looking light colored timber furniture and bed. Situated ona dark spotted carpet rug, the rest of the room is decorated with feminine soft furnishing touches in the window furnishings and the bed covers

This modern contemporary apartment master bedroom is outfitted with white featured furniture pieces accented with red soft furnishings. A chez longe for relaxing with a book, a study desk and poof stool complete the picture

This stunning master bedroom is massive. It has its own lounge area with a full corner lounge suite, as well an adjoining bathroom. The finish is modern and stylish and the wall and floor tonings are neutral whites and creams

Such a pretty master bedroom with an adjoining bathroom ensuite. It has a light colored tile floor and neutral wall decor, offset with pastel tonings in the soft furnishings and furniture

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