Cohesive Considerations – Casa Lunga by Mim Design

On Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Casa Lunga by Mim Design is a balance of considered materials and design choices that encourage its owners to live cohesively with their surrounds. Inspired by the atmospheric qualities of the coastline, Mim Design has created a home that reflects the Mornington Peninsula lifestyle.

With an abundance of natural light and seamless connections to the outdoors, Casa Lunga – ‘long house’ in Italian – can be lived in and enjoyed any time of the year. “It is a home that can be appreciated all year round, where the customary partitions that separate the interior from the exterior are dissolved,” says Miriam Fanning, Principal at Mim Design.

With an abundance of natural light and seamless connections to the outdoors, Casa Lunga – ‘long house’ in Italian – can be lived in and enjoyed any time of the year.

The home’s proximity to the shore and the locale’s well-established vegetation were key factors in Mim Design’s execution. “Both attributes guided the planning and detailing for the linear interior, producing cohesive spaces that ebb and flow out of sanctum terraces,” says Miriam. “Building on the prevailing architectural features, we worked to create undulating and rectilinear forms, framed aspects and considered layering of elements.

“The design also responds to the site’s restriction on the north boundary by locating the garden not to the rear but alongside the property,” she says. The kitchen, dining and living room are combined into one extended space, adding to the composition of the home’s elongated form. This space then opens up through banks of sliding doors to the exterior entertainment areas and pool deck.

The interiors are marked by a soft, calm material palette that relates back to the natural landscape and is “conducive to a home of restorative calm,” says Lisa Ransom, Associate at Mim Design.

The interiors are marked by a soft, calm material palette that relates back to the natural landscape and is “conducive to a home of restorative calm,” says Lisa Ransom, Associate at Mim Design. It includes Onde Rosa marble and Moroccan handmade tiles in the kitchen and European oak floorboards in the open plan kitchen and living space. Porcelain chalk tiles feature in both bathrooms while the ensuite is enhanced with sky-pink marble and a wealth of natural light from skylights. In the living spaces, ceiling rafters with integrated lighting add architectural interest and a sophisticated glow. “The rafters flow seamlessly into the exteriors to allow both faculties to be one and the same,” Lisa adds.

Reflective of Mim Design’s approach to design and styling, Casa Lunga weaves together interior and exterior spaces in a cohesive and considered way. By challenging the tropes around what coastal living should look like, it becomes a home that can be enjoyed and relished in every season.