Residential · Garden Family Home

Wren Garden House

A garden-facing home layered with warm timber, soft colour and rooms that follow the sun.

Location
Willowbank
Completed
2023
Area
275 m²
Category
Residential
Dining room with timber floors, pendant lights and a table set for dinner

Wren Garden House was renovated for a family who wanted their home to feel connected to the garden in every room. We worked from the light inwards — breakfast in the east, a living room that holds the afternoon sun, and a study tucked into the greenest corner of the plan.

Timber carries through the house in different forms: oak floors, a walnut coffee table, a dining table made by a local maker to sit twelve. Colour arrives in layers rather than statements — clay, moss, tobacco and a single deep green wall that anchors the sitting room.

The scheme is deliberately unfussy. Textiles are washable, finishes tolerate real family life, and storage is built in wherever a room threatened to become cluttered. The result feels collected over time rather than installed in a fortnight.

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