The kitchen and dining area incorporates statement Madame Brass pendants, which define the dining area from the open plan kitchen.

Clerestory windows climb into the space made available by the gabled roof form – ensuring a light-filled living, dining and kitchen space.

Dining area with circular pendant and courtyard complete with beech tree in the background.

A hop, skip and jump to al fresco dining. - It started with the benchtop -

The kitchen is at the end of a large living and dining space reinforced with visually dominant recycled bridge beams. The kitchen had to respond to that spatial context and be well grounded with its layout.

The dining table top is in herringbone parquet, like the floor installed in the bedroom area, giving it continuity.

The exterior perspective of the renovated open-plan dining and kitchen area.

Main dining with view.

The designer was engaged to design and fully fit out the interiors for the whole renovation – kitchen, dining, living, bedrooms, bathrooms, laundry and deck areas.

When arriving at the lake house, the kitchen is immediately to your left, so it needed to provide a sense of arrival and a generous welcome.

King Arthur would have liked this – the custom designed organic shaped 10-seater dining table is intended not to have a head of the table so all family members or guests are seen as equal.

The kitchen is central to the home's living spaces.

Wood floors and wood cabinetry bring a natural feel to the dining/kitchen living space that opens to the covered outdoor room with room-height sliders.

This kitchen is about good company in terms of people as well as materials – the chef can talk to the guests and look at the views beyond them at the same time.

The bigger picture – the kitchen is close to the home's dining area.

Reaching the end of that hall, you now enter into one shared social space – taking in the dining room, kitchen and lounge.

Dining area viewed from the kitchen.

Kitchen, dining, and mountain range. - A strong home in a strong land -

Elegant and gracious interior spaces, such as this glass-wall surrounded dining area, offer an abundance of natural light and strong indoor-outdoor connections.

Looking back to kitchen from dining zone – entry porch is to the right.

Dining elevation with kitchen to the left. - Proud face, open heart -

Media room to the left, stairs to the right, front door straight ahead and kitchen/dining/living behind the photographer.

Part of the design brief was to make sure that the kitchen blended successfully into the open plan living area and that it would look like attractive furniture.

The vertical symmetrical shiplap-clad forms hide an existing structural post that the architect needed to retain.

Elimination of the entry hall and suppression of several walls provided a vast integrated living/ kitchen/dining room with views of Buenos Aires Square.

Dining area and pergola with overhead heating built in. Photography by Daniel Corden.

Kitchen and dining seen together. - Familiar yet dramatically different -

The owners approached Landmark Homes about the possibility of building the Showhome plan they liked but with changes that would make it perfectly suit them.

The layout allows the space to open up for indoor/outdoor entertaining with large glass bi-fold doors that connect the kitchen, dining and sunken living areas to the front deck – for a light, airy feel.