
“‘Are you sure you want to put these beams back in?’” The builders asked that question again and again, recalls the owner of New Line House, in Sydney’s East Ryde. “And every time we said, ‘Yep.’”
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“‘Are you sure you want to put these beams back in?’” The builders asked that question again and again, recalls the owner of New Line House, in Sydney’s East Ryde. “And every time we said, ‘Yep.’”
The stained Oregon beams date back to the house’s beginnings as a Lowline, the flat-roofed, single-level, linear model from the company behind some of Australia’s best-loved modernist homes: Pettit & Sevitt. Removed and later reinstated, the beams may no longer be structural but remain as a memory of the old house.
Today’s five-bedroom, 275 square metre (2,960 square foot) family home, completed in 2024 on the original footprint, is clearly of its time, yet unmistakably a product of its DNA, inheriting traits such as a palette of unfussy materials. Then there is the feel of the place: airy, unpretentious and generous.
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