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.
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.
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.
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
ArchitectMark de Rozanio/Craig Steere, CSA Craig Steere Architects | Group home builder/builderMinchim and Sims |
Kitchen designerMark de Rozanio/Craig Steere | Interior designerMark de Rozanio/Craig Steere |
LandscapeConcept Origin | CladdingMain 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 wallsVictorian Ash V-Joint Boards with WOCA Black Stain, from Mortlock | Perforated aluminium mesh screeningCustom designed by architect |
Aluminium windowsAWS and Breezeway, from Westec Doors and Windows | Louvred roofsSkyview Aluminium Roof, from Executive Blinds and Awnings |
Exterior blindsVental 80a2 Aluminium Venetians, from Executive Blinds and Awnings | DeckingMillboard Antique Oak, from Austim |
Porcelain wall and floor tilesMirage Norr 2.0, Supplier: European Ceramics | Cabinetry hardwareBlum |
Kitchen benchtopNatural stone slabs (Hiroshi Green), from Bernini/Zuccari; porcelain sheets (Dekton Eter), from Consentino | Reeded glass splashbackFrom Glass Australia |
CurtainsPerth Window Decor | Stone floor and wall tilesMeridian Limestone, from Bernini |
Timber flooringWoodpecker Flooring – Coswick Brown Sugar | Ground floor cabinetryLaminate – Polytec Cafe Oak and Thermolaminated Polytec in White Matte |
Vanity cabinetryEveneer timber veneer | BathsReece Kado Lux; Apaiser Sapphire |
Bath mixerAstra Walker Metropolis | Powder room porcelain wall panelsFlorim Tesori Anelli Bianco, from European Ceramics |
Bath pod wall and floor tileGigacer Graphite, Supplier: European Ceramics | General lightingAlti Lighting |
Feature lightingEntry – Alex Earl Antler Pendant; kitchen island pendants – Marset Ambrosia Pendants, from Mobilia; dining room pendants – Marset – Bohemia Pendant, from Mobilia | AwardsTrends 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.
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.
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.
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
ArchitectMark de Rozanio/Craig Steere, CSA Craig Steere Architects | Group home builder/builderMinchim and Sims |
Kitchen designerMark de Rozanio/Craig Steere | Interior designerMark de Rozanio/Craig Steere |
LandscapeConcept Origin | CladdingMain 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 wallsVictorian Ash V-Joint Boards with WOCA Black Stain, from Mortlock | Perforated aluminium mesh screeningCustom designed by architect |
Aluminium windowsAWS and Breezeway, from Westec Doors and Windows | Louvred roofsSkyview Aluminium Roof, from Executive Blinds and Awnings |
Exterior blindsVental 80a2 Aluminium Venetians, from Executive Blinds and Awnings | DeckingMillboard Antique Oak, from Austim |
Porcelain wall and floor tilesMirage Norr 2.0, Supplier: European Ceramics | Cabinetry hardwareBlum |
Kitchen benchtopNatural stone slabs (Hiroshi Green), from Bernini/Zuccari; porcelain sheets (Dekton Eter), from Consentino | Reeded glass splashbackFrom Glass Australia |
CurtainsPerth Window Decor | Stone floor and wall tilesMeridian Limestone, from Bernini |
Timber flooringWoodpecker Flooring – Coswick Brown Sugar | Ground floor cabinetryLaminate – Polytec Cafe Oak and Thermolaminated Polytec in White Matte |
Vanity cabinetryEveneer timber veneer | BathsReece Kado Lux; Apaiser Sapphire |
Bath mixerAstra Walker Metropolis | Powder room porcelain wall panelsFlorim Tesori Anelli Bianco, from European Ceramics |
Bath pod wall and floor tileGigacer Graphite, Supplier: European Ceramics | General lightingAlti Lighting |
Feature lightingEntry – Alex Earl Antler Pendant; kitchen island pendants – Marset Ambrosia Pendants, from Mobilia; dining room pendants – Marset – Bohemia Pendant, from Mobilia | AwardsTrends International Design Awards (TIDA) Homes – Runner Up |
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