Coastal Connection – Macmasters Beach House by Polly Harbison Design
Overlooking a sublime stretch of seafront paradise, Macmasters Beach House by Polly Harbison Design rests upon the coastal landscape with a delicate footprint yet emphatic presence. Expansive glazed doors create a sense of openness that is balanced by the grounding presence of Eco Outdoor natural sandstone flooring, creating a dwelling intimately connected with the environment.
Serving as a beachside retreat, Macmasters Beach House has been crafted with connection as a cornerstone of its design. Intimately tucked amongst bushland, the beach shack becomes an ideal entertainer’s escape, welcoming a large family and many friends to gather inside or out to enjoy views of greenery, water, sun and sand. At ease with its environment, an expansive terrace of Eco Outdoor sandstone flooring wraps the entire holiday home, forming an outdoor room that acts as a conduit between landscape and architecture.
Heartily belonging to context with its material palette, the home’s heavily distressed sandstone floor presents a rugged and raw extension of the beach that continues through the internal space and spans its terrace edges to meet nature. Realising the vision to achieve a richly textured surface that would feel at once rough and soft, Polly Harbison Design’s use of Eco Outdoor’s Beauford Sandstone flooring aptly grounds the beach shack. “The darker tones of the stone helped reduce the summer glare and create a richer, more varied finish. It is the softness of the stone underfoot; the way it feels to walk on bare feet that makes it exceptional,” says Polly. “Everyone who visits the house is surprised how soft and warm it feels. This tactile quality sets it apart.”
Meticulously developed in close partnership with experts specialising in the restoration of French castles, Eco Outdoor’s Beauford Sandstone flooring has been curated to deliver matchless character. Part of the brand’s Antique range, the natural flooring surface is sage with history and hand finished, imparting each stone tile with a unique patina and personality. Designed for interior and exterior use that is perfectly exemplified in Macmasters Beach House’s all-encompassing application, Eco Outdoor’s products bridge a connection between space and material, calling upon the environment to shape and inspire.
