DESKTOP

MOBILE

Designed by: Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere, CSA Craig Steere Architects

Photography by: Blake Hobson

This home was conceived as a timeless yet contemporary residence that balances bold materiality with warmth, uniting concrete, stone, metal, and timber into a tactile, enduring palette.

Designed with openness, natural light, and passive solar strategies at its core, the architecture responds sensitively to the site and its microclimate, ensuring comfort, privacy, and a constant dialogue with the landscape.

Its refined proportions and material choices enrich the streetscape, contributing to the evolving neighbourhood character while respecting context through setbacks and massing that reduce overshadowing and present a predominantly two-storey form to the street.

Internally, the spatial organisation offers both flexibility and adaptability. A sectional sofa and dining space are part of the interior appeal.
Internally, the spatial organisation offers both flexibility and adaptability.

Internally, the spatial organisation offers both flexibility and adaptability.

Children’s and adults’ zones are clearly defined, balancing independence with shared family spaces.

Multi-functional rooms, such as a home office that can serve as a guest suite, ensure the house evolves with the family’s changing needs.

Expansive living areas embrace natural light and maintain a seamless connection between indoors and outdoors, supported by close collaboration with the landscape designer to create layered private and public spaces that encourage engagement with the environment.

The kitchen island is dressed in an attractive green, veined quartzite.
The kitchen island is dressed in an attractive green, veined quartzite.

Sustainability and performance underpin the design.

Thermal modelling informed a finely tuned passive solar strategy, while collaboration with engineers enabled the integration of a significant four-storey structure without sacrificing openness.

The home maximises natural ventilation and daylight to reduce reliance on artificial systems, supported by solar PV with battery storage, efficient appliances, underfloor heating, and water-saving fixtures.

Durable, low-maintenance, and locally sourced materials were selected to ensure long-term resilience, reduced upkeep, and alignment with a built-to-last philosophy.

The generous backyard in ground pool.
The generous backyard pool.

Ultimately, the project embodies flexibility, functionality, and comfort while maintaining a refined architectural presence.

It strengthens the cultural fabric of its neighbourhood, balancing privacy and openness, permanence and adaptability, technical performance and lived warmth.

See the bathroom in this home

Find more design ideas and inspiration at trendsideas.com

Credit List

Architect
Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere, CSA Craig Steere Architects
Group home builder/builder
Minchim and Sims
Kitchen designer
Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere
Interior designer
Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere
Landscape
Concept Origin
Cladding
Main body cladding – Equitone NATURA N154; ground floor cladding – James Hardie Scyon Axon with paint finish Dulux Monument; top floor metal cladding – Metroll Mac Interlocking Panel in Monument Colorbond Ultra; rendered walls – Sto Stolit K; Splitface stone tile cladding – Eros Split Face Stone, from Bernini
Timber lined soffits and walls
Victorian Ash V-Joint Boards with WOCA Black Stain, from Mortlock
Perforated aluminium mesh screening
Custom designed by architect
Aluminium windows
AWS and Breezeway, from Westec Doors and Windows
Louvred roofs
Skyview Aluminium Roof, from Executive Blinds and Awnings
Exterior blinds
Vental 80a2 Aluminium Venetians, from Executive Blinds and Awnings
Decking
Millboard Antique Oak, from Austim
Porcelain wall and floor tiles
Mirage Norr 2.0, Supplier: European Ceramics
Cabinetry hardware
Blum
Kitchen benchtop
Natural stone slabs (Hiroshi Green), from Bernini/Zuccari; porcelain sheets (Dekton Eter), from Consentino
Reeded glass splashback
From Glass Australia
Curtains
Perth Window Decor
Stone floor and wall tiles
Meridian Limestone, from Bernini
Timber flooring
Woodpecker Flooring – Coswick Brown Sugar
Ground floor cabinetry
Laminate – Polytec Cafe Oak and Thermolaminated Polytec in White Matte
Vanity cabinetry
Eveneer timber veneer
Baths
Reece Kado Lux; Apaiser Sapphire
Bath mixer
Astra Walker Metropolis
Powder room porcelain wall panels
Florim Tesori Anelli Bianco, from European Ceramics
Bath pod wall and floor tile
Gigacer Graphite, Supplier: European Ceramics
General lighting
Alti Lighting
Feature lighting
Entry – Alex Earl Antler Pendant; kitchen island pendants – Marset Ambrosia Pendants, from Mobilia; dining room pendants – Marset – Bohemia Pendant, from Mobilia
Awards
Trends International Design Awards (TIDA) Homes – Runner Up

This home was conceived as a timeless yet contemporary residence that balances bold materiality with warmth, uniting concrete, stone, metal, and timber into a tactile, enduring palette.

Designed with openness, natural light, and passive solar strategies at its core, the architecture responds sensitively to the site and its microclimate, ensuring comfort, privacy, and a constant dialogue with the landscape.

Its refined proportions and material choices enrich the streetscape, contributing to the evolving neighbourhood character while respecting context through setbacks and massing that reduce overshadowing and present a predominantly two-storey form to the street.

Internally, the spatial organisation offers both flexibility and adaptability. A sectional sofa and dining space are part of the interior appeal.
Internally, the spatial organisation offers both flexibility and adaptability.

Internally, the spatial organisation offers both flexibility and adaptability.

Children’s and adults’ zones are clearly defined, balancing independence with shared family spaces.

Multi-functional rooms, such as a home office that can serve as a guest suite, ensure the house evolves with the family’s changing needs.

Expansive living areas embrace natural light and maintain a seamless connection between indoors and outdoors, supported by close collaboration with the landscape designer to create layered private and public spaces that encourage engagement with the environment.

The kitchen island is dressed in an attractive green, veined quartzite.
The kitchen island is dressed in an attractive green, veined quartzite.

Sustainability and performance underpin the design.

Thermal modelling informed a finely tuned passive solar strategy, while collaboration with engineers enabled the integration of a significant four-storey structure without sacrificing openness.

The home maximises natural ventilation and daylight to reduce reliance on artificial systems, supported by solar PV with battery storage, efficient appliances, underfloor heating, and water-saving fixtures.

Durable, low-maintenance, and locally sourced materials were selected to ensure long-term resilience, reduced upkeep, and alignment with a built-to-last philosophy.

The generous backyard in ground pool.
The generous backyard pool.

Ultimately, the project embodies flexibility, functionality, and comfort while maintaining a refined architectural presence.

It strengthens the cultural fabric of its neighbourhood, balancing privacy and openness, permanence and adaptability, technical performance and lived warmth.

See the bathroom in this home

Find more design ideas and inspiration at trendsideas.com

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Credit List

Architect
Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere, CSA Craig Steere Architects
Group home builder/builder
Minchim and Sims
Kitchen designer
Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere
Interior designer
Mark de Rozanio/Craig Steere
Landscape
Concept Origin
Cladding
Main body cladding – Equitone NATURA N154; ground floor cladding – James Hardie Scyon Axon with paint finish Dulux Monument; top floor metal cladding – Metroll Mac Interlocking Panel in Monument Colorbond Ultra; rendered walls – Sto Stolit K; Splitface stone tile cladding – Eros Split Face Stone, from Bernini
Timber lined soffits and walls
Victorian Ash V-Joint Boards with WOCA Black Stain, from Mortlock
Perforated aluminium mesh screening
Custom designed by architect
Aluminium windows
AWS and Breezeway, from Westec Doors and Windows
Louvred roofs
Skyview Aluminium Roof, from Executive Blinds and Awnings
Exterior blinds
Vental 80a2 Aluminium Venetians, from Executive Blinds and Awnings
Decking
Millboard Antique Oak, from Austim
Porcelain wall and floor tiles
Mirage Norr 2.0, Supplier: European Ceramics
Cabinetry hardware
Blum
Kitchen benchtop
Natural stone slabs (Hiroshi Green), from Bernini/Zuccari; porcelain sheets (Dekton Eter), from Consentino
Reeded glass splashback
From Glass Australia
Curtains
Perth Window Decor
Stone floor and wall tiles
Meridian Limestone, from Bernini
Timber flooring
Woodpecker Flooring – Coswick Brown Sugar
Ground floor cabinetry
Laminate – Polytec Cafe Oak and Thermolaminated Polytec in White Matte
Vanity cabinetry
Eveneer timber veneer
Baths
Reece Kado Lux; Apaiser Sapphire
Bath mixer
Astra Walker Metropolis
Powder room porcelain wall panels
Florim Tesori Anelli Bianco, from European Ceramics
Bath pod wall and floor tile
Gigacer Graphite, Supplier: European Ceramics
General lighting
Alti Lighting
Feature lighting
Entry – Alex Earl Antler Pendant; kitchen island pendants – Marset Ambrosia Pendants, from Mobilia; dining room pendants – Marset – Bohemia Pendant, from Mobilia
Awards
Trends International Design Awards (TIDA) Homes – Runner Up

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