{"id":99002,"date":"2026-11-12T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99002"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:08:05","slug":"pettit-sevitts-modernist-charm-lives-on-in-sydneys-new-line-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99002","title":{"rendered":"Pettit &#038; Sevitt\u2019s modernist charm lives on in Sydney\u2019s New Line House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/10\/62fdeec9-d8f2-4466-bbb9-b4e4292012d3_20e5ff6a.jpg?itok=kLNVkQTG&amp;v=1794298322\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201c\u2018Are you sure you want to put these beams back in?\u2019\u201d The builders asked that question again and again, recalls the owner of New Line House, in Sydney\u2019s East Ryde. \u201cAnd every time we said, \u2018Yep.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The stained Oregon beams date back to the house\u2019s beginnings as a Lowline, the flat-roofed, single-level, linear model from the company behind some of Australia\u2019s best-loved modernist homes: Pettit &amp; Sevitt. Removed and later reinstated, the beams may no longer be structural but remain as a memory of the old house.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Today\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/homes\/article\/3373927\/pettit-sevitts-modernist-charm-lives-sydneys-new-line-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2018Are you sure you want to put these beams back in?\u2019\u201d The builders asked that question again and again, recalls the owner of New Line&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6551,1196,700,1514,32602,32600,32601,32603],"class_list":["post-99002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-charm","tag-house","tag-line","tag-lives","tag-modernist","tag-pettit","tag-sevitts","tag-sydneys","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}