Playful and Expressive – Collaroy House by TRD Studio

Combining a bold playfulness with a familiar residential warmth, Collaroy House references the known and the expressive. TRD Studio brings organic shapes together with a linear approach to conjure a family home able to transform as needed, while remaining robust and enduring.

Navigating its corner block in the same-named milieu of Collaroy, the family home balances privacy and retreat while catering to its family of four teenage boys. A mixture of low maintenance and embedded robustness forms the foundations of the home, with elevated moments of heightened luxury creating points of difference. Throughout, flow is accentuated by geometries used while timber adds a welcomed warmth to both the spaces and the inserted elements, grounding the home in its lightness.

Combining forces with architecture by Integrated Design Group, TRD Studio designs the interiors as a free moving series of connected spaces, able to be melded to suit the growing family and their needs as they change over time.

Collaroy House draws in natural light from its surrounds, further emphasising a feeling of openness through a neutral and white base palette throughout. The mixture of veined stone used in a monolithic manner creates moments of boldness, forming sculpture-type elements within the space, while elements like the organic and oversized sofa add a more fluid and dynamic insertion – both encouraging engagement in their own way. Integrated furniture and seating grounds the home in place, embedding a sense of permanency.

The lightness of the interiors is accentuated by soft pastel hues used in covering the built-in banquette seating, the bedheads and in the layering of tactile textures throughout. Moments of these colours are balanced with a calming ambiance throughout, crafting a consistent palette tying each space together. Opting to place the outdoor space in the centre of the house instead of at the back, the central living space opens to the outdoors and encourages a spill over into the external room. This placement ensures a sense of privacy is maintained and further brings in additional natural light and ventilation into the heart of the home.