Muted Restraint – Ivory House by Homeroom Studio and Tecture

Founded on a base of luminescence, Ivory House sees complementary muted tones create an idyllic and calm interior experience. Homeroom Studio and Tecture layer openness with a clean and linear approach, embedding a timelessness and natural connection into the resulting home.

The owner of Ivory House, interior designer and Homeroom Studio Creative Director Romy Dankner collaborated on the project, resulting in a uniquely personal and considered home. Working with Tecture, the aim was to create a home that could facilitate daily life and serve as a place of reprise for the family of five. Located in Caulfield South, the established and leafy surrounds invite something of grandeur – a quality the resulting home achieves with a contemporary approach and a sense of disconnection and seclusion.

The embedded relationship between natural light and the interior experience plays an important role in creating the feeling of peace among the chaos of family life.

Concealed behind its private façade of timber and glass, the ensuing home of calm and stillness awaits. The embedded relationship between natural light and the interior experience plays an important role in creating the feeling of peace among the chaos of family life. Through a focus on a muted base palette, textures and nuances in finishes, moments of interest are created through how light animates surfaces throughout the day. The integrated joinery and furniture follow a similar design language to the home’s linear nature by reinforcing linework and the removal of overly ornate detailing. The common materiality and palette at play helps to emphasise a quietening of the spaces.

Ivory House is as introspective as it is connective. Opening to the north, the main living space connects to the landscape and the integrated pool as an extension of the interior. By aligning and positioning active zones with an indoor-outdoor orientation, natural light fills the spaces and ensures a lessened reliance on outside energy sources whilst also encouraging a free-flowing movement between inside and out.

Ivory House is as introspective as it is connective.

Despite the home’s muted palette, the selection of its collective parts and an emphasis on almond and chalky tones ensures warmth fills Ivory House. Homeroom Studio and Tecture embed clever detailing and an attentive rigor to ensure its continued support of family life.