A study in restraint and continuity.

What makes this house so uniquely beautiful is how much they left alone. The old stone cottage is still the heart of it all, so much so that the team decided to keep the thick double walls exactly as they were and turned that space into the kitchen, so this rough, heavy stone ends up being the anchor for everything built around it. The same materials carry through the rest of the design: corrugated roofs, timber ceilings, stone pillars, plus verandas and decks that stretch the living areas out into the land. The beautiful setting surrounds House T, sitting at the bottom of a small lush valley, looking out over farmland and a stretch of sea. A 100-year-old coral tree canopies the building and seems to be in view from almost anywhere on the property, bringing that natural feeling into a man-made space.

Inside, they didn't try to make everything match. The window frames are reclaimed timber from the original cottage, and they sit right next to green zellige tiles, stone splashbacks with heavy veining, and arched doorways painted olive and forest green. Old stone next to new plaster - a wonderful marriage of old and new.