Denman Home, Glen Iris

A quiet reorder, held by brick and oak

Denman sits on a Glen Iris block that carried an interwar home worth keeping. Pleysier Perkins returns the front rooms to their period and pulls the plan open at the rear, so the daily living is set against the northern garden.

The material palette runs to warm brick, rift-sawn oak and a spine of honed stone. Detailing stays quiet. Cornices are strap-set to the height of the original rooms and joinery lands flush with the plaster. The stair reads as a single piece rather than a set of parts.

The landscape by Vivid Green Landscapes reads as the fifth elevation from the kitchen. Planting is set close to the glazing so the interior colour shifts with the garden. Coordination through the roof plane, the box gutters and the concealed downpipes is where the delivery gets tested.

Photography by Capture Media. TCON runs a long trade sequence to hold those lines clean and to keep the retained front and the new rear working as one continuous piece of construction.