A door worth walking up to
The chevron front door was built off site in a joiner's workshop and took longer to make than most kitchens.
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Knockdown RebuildGarran · South Canberra2022
Garran Family Rebuild
The old house came down; the new one announces itself with a hand-set chevron front door.
TypeKnockdown Rebuild
LocationGarran, South Canberra
Delivered2022
Build time12 months
The Brief
How this home came to be.
The family had lived on this Garran block for eighteen years and weren't ready to leave the street — just the house. A full rebuild let them keep the address and the jacaranda out front while starting completely fresh behind the door.
That front door became the signature of the build: a chevron-patterned solid timber statement piece, set into a recessed portico with hidden lighting that washes the pattern at night.
Site area
830 m²
Internal
276 m²
Bedrooms
5
Bathrooms
3
Garage
Double
Star rating
7.4
Photographs
On site.
Shot over three visits — dawn, midday and dusk — so the material palette reads the way the family will actually live in it.
What's inside
The specification, in plain English.
Every line here is something we insisted on — not something added to fatten a quote.
- 01Full knockdown rebuild, original jacaranda tree retained
- 02Solid timber chevron-pattern front door, custom-built
- 03Recessed entry portico with concealed uplighting
- 04Engineered stair with integrated riser lighting
- 05Zoned ducted air conditioning across two storeys
- 06Study nook and mudroom built into the entry sequence
Signature moments
The things worth
pointing out.
Small decisions that only reveal themselves once you're living in the house. These are ours for this project.
Light that follows the stair
Riser lighting was recessed into each stair tread on a dusk sensor, so the staircase never needs a wall switch after dark.
The tree stayed
The build was set out specifically to protect the root zone of the jacaranda the family had grown up under.
Where it stands
Garran,
South Canberra.
- Client
- Return client — original home built in 2010
- Build time
- 12 months
- Delivered
- 2022
