Home Tour! Our Luxury Beach House. Full Walkthrough w Interior Designer. House Tour

Hi guys, Lucy here from Hunting for George and welcome back to a brand new Let Us In Home tour. I thought what better home to show you through than the one that we have spent the last year building and renovating. If you've been following our journey then you already know we are in Lawn in Victoria along the Great Ocean Road and this is The Beach House. Okay before we go inside go get your bearings and check out that view. After you. This is a 1930s weather board that has just undergone a massive makeover. We essentially wanted to create a modern coastal retreat and this is our dining room that greets you as soon as you walk through the doors. I'm going to open these up so we can look out on that view again. I really wanted to bring curtains into this space and I love that curved track so we've got four panels of these and they're all free flow so that way we can just move them around depending on how the sun is coming into this space. So the feature and the hero of this room is undoubtedly the very generous circular dining table with the Lazy Lucy. This has been given a serious workout. We have so many wonderful meals on this table. This is a 10 seater, it's very generous and it's very much the hero but the other hero in this room which is very simple and refined is this buffet. So I actually designed this unit to basically maximize and bring in as much storage as possible which the old home was definitely lacking. So we've got these drawers here with soft clothes, we've got plenty of glassware, we've also got a full dining set there as well. So we've got matching drawers on either side but over here, just extra storage. I've turned this into a little cheeky bar because why not? And then what I also really love most about this room is that we've actually got one of the original slides from 1969 so that shows the house in all of its glory and I like that that's the first thing that you see as soon as you walk through the door. So the dining room leads us on to the living space. In terms of the interior design, I very much wanted to keep a warm and earthy color palette but I did want to introduce some color and I have incorporated some green hues and you can see that through some of the pieces in this space. What I love most though, I love that we kept this. So this is original Lawn Riverstone, so this was existing in the home and we decided to keep this and we also kept the mantle as well. So this is a beautiful piece of red gum that John O's author made and it has a wonderful width to it and it also has a lot of strength and beautiful place to style as well. So in this space, we have got enough ample seating for seven, we've got a wonderful four-seater sofa, the two armchairs plus this occasional chair and to be honest with you though, it's not just this area because this circular table is so inclusive and so wide that also doubles as additional seating as well but not only that, the barstools in our kitchen. Come on in. So I love sitting up to this bar, I love this waterfall detail with the stone and to be honest with you, there is a lot I love about this kitchen. I'm really proud of it to be honest because when it came to the design, I was quite nervous because I was designing for John O's family and I wanted to make sure it was a welcoming interior. So my main focus was to yes, modernize it but also give it a lot of charm and a lot of nostalgia. So where to start with what I love? First of all, this tap. I'm going to show you this tap. Okay, so not your average tap, we've got cold filtered, we've got sparkling, we've also got instant boiling water as well. I'm going to go some sparkling water. So fancy, I love that. Literally drink a lot of sparkling water now. The other thing that I really love in this kitchen is also this oven. So we've opened this up a lot, we've got a very generous size oven. We actually repurposed this shelf from what was here before but I also really like this detail with these brushed pure gold towel rails and the fact that we've got these S hooks here. So we've just got additional storage for utensils, it's a much more practical space and also the other thing that kind of excites me which is maybe a bit sad but things like just clever handy pull-out drawers and also the same here. So it was all just about maximizing the space before we didn't have a lot of storage, the shelves were very narrow. So things like that have made this a very functional kitchen now. I also really wanted to introduce more bench space so I love having the addition of this breakfast bar. This gets used a lot actually and so I really like the fact that we've got additional bench space because essentially it's a small kitchen but it's really helpful to have this. Come through this cavity slider into the master. So the master, this was once just one room that led off that upper level so obviously you would have seen a cheeky hint of the ensuite but this has a wonderful view as well. It's probably the best view from one of the bedrooms so these beautiful hardwood timber frames. It's very soft, it's very calm, the color palette upstairs was all about creating a sense of warmth, a sense of softness and what I most like about this room is this addition of the bench seat. So I was able to customize these robes and I really wanted to have additional seating. I think it's quite important when you're in a bedroom to have somewhere to sit that's not just your bed. So there's more storage and we've also got that hanging rail and I think it just works really well with the mirror backing. It helps to reflect the view so I like the feeling that this creates in this room but we'll check out the bathroom. So it's a master, it's not a huge size however it's what you do with it guys so we have actually fit a lot into this room. What we wanted to focus on was to create single level living upstairs so hiding behind this cavity is a washer dryer combo so essentially we can now have single level living for the parents but when you're not using that you can just hide it away and the thing with this because we did squeeze that in it has made it a bit smaller but I wanted to make sure that it was as generous as possible so I fit in a 900 vanity which was essentially as wide as I could go. I got some pushback on this because it was very hard to get that washer dryer in with this 900 but I like the scale of that and I think what also helps is this circular mirrored cabinet it helps to open up the space a lot more. Okay after you we're gonna head downstairs. So at the bottom of the stairs we start to transition slightly into a slightly different energy come through into probably one of my most favorite rooms in this home this is the kids retreat. I just absolutely love this room it is filled with energy there is so much character I love these bunk beds these I mean these were all DIY we made these ourselves but I really wanted to focus on bringing in energy and color into this space to make it incredibly playful and to be honest with you this room was all about maximizing and creating zones so we've obviously got our sleeping quarters here we've got a tv unit here and also a sort of a casual living space with play mat for toys but over here because this was an old pokey space this actually used to be a garage so we're dealing with some pretty low ceiling heights in this space so I thought I'm going to embrace the pokiness of it and create a smaller area so we've actually put in a desk we've also put in a cot so this is both you know a study but also a nursery as well and for the nursery it's very handy having this curtain so you can pull that back to have a slightly darker space. And stepping down we've got this slightly elevated living room as well so this not only is a very comfy couch but it's also a queen sofa bed so if we do have guests overflow we can just roll this on out and we've got another queen bed but otherwise it's a very comfy couch and I love the green it's consistent with some of those green notes that we're starting to see throughout the home. Let's open up these doors again that timber hardwood I love those sliding doors leading us on to the lower deck I like most about this space is that it actually is enclosed and this is very much I guess kind of the messy second entrance it's far more casual surfboards you know hooks you know your beach towels so if you've got sandy feet you come in down here you have yourself an outdoor shower before you head inside. So lots of doors to open let's open this one welcome to the lower bathroom I really do like the simplicity in this room it's got a wonderful tone to it I really like the softness of the tiles I love this left align vanity and I love this ceiling mount showerhead if you know me then you know that I love a very large pimping freestanding bath this is not that however what it lacks in you know grandeur it definitely makes up for in volume so this was literally the smallest bath is 1.5 meters and so we've got a 1.5 meter bath but it's super deep so I'm definitely in my happy place I will eventually get to have a house that has a freestanding bath but for now I'm very happy with that. So here we have our laundry so in the old house we didn't actually have a laundry there was just literally a washer dryer that was in the bathroom so it is very special to be able to have a dedicated space in terms of the color palette and the material choice is very consistent so we've got the same bench top that we had in the kitchen these tiles are the same that we just saw in the bathroom and also this brushed pure gold as well all these hardwares and these fixtures are all the same consistent throughout I also love this touch of this towel rail again which is great for hanging space and also for drying more cavity sliders hiding in here once was the smallest room in the home to be fair it still is the smallest room in the home but what we did in this space was actually open it up a lot so before this was closed off so what we've actually done is gone in under the stairs so we've given this a lot more space and so this is actually a really functional room now so I just wanted to maximize this space as much as possible and also I wanted to bring in some fun and some color as well to make it quite an energetic interior this room did have its own ensuite originally so we've just pimped it up I mean it's teeny tiny but it's pimping and I love it the main challenge with this room because it was existing and we were retrofitting we basically just needed to elevate it so that it matched the elegance of all the new interiors that will bring you into this space there's more come on okay down the hallway in our new wing we've got two bedrooms first welcome to the green room so this particular part of the home was all part of this new extension and we have two rooms that essentially quite similar in terms of their layout but I wanted to differentiate them in terms of their color palette so this one is very much inspired by nature and the bush surrounds so we have gone with this wonderful green tone I love so much about this room in terms of these earthy notes I really love the shelf from this bed and the fact that I've been able to have that to style with but the artwork's wonderful the tones are rich and textural but probably what I like most are these green tiles I just love this ensuite so so much it's got the most wonderful feeling in here it is so rich and it just really feels part of its environment it's got some wonderful natural light coming through that window and we've started to play around I wanted to add in some different notes so I've gone heavier with this dark basin and this black butt vanity so I've tried to sort of change it up a little bit with the interiors in this lower level it's slightly more textural and slightly more energetic last room of the house after you so the blue room it is very much all about that view to be honest so this is inspired by the ocean it's got a very large window looking out onto the ocean and to match we have got our own blue ensuite same layout everything the same it's just a very different feeling because of the color of these tiles and the different colors of the towels so it's interesting just how two very similar ensuites do have different feels but they still are quite cohesive okay time to go back up after you ah it's thirsty work this house is a lot bigger than it used to be we'll head outside it's probably one of my most favorite spots in the home if not the favorite this is the new deck we've supersized it it was very narrow and small before we have got a very generous outdoor dining table which gets used so much plus the drinks trolley always very handy and the addition of this outdoor kitchen and barbecue was so very important we use this so much we do a lot of cooking a lot of entertaining so this was incredibly important and i like the heaviness of that black as well it's very much a statement piece the other thing that i really wanted to do out here was to bring in these couches for an additional living space this is a really beautiful place to sit even on an overcast day like today or when the sun's out underneath this beautiful umbrella so that guys that is the beach house that has been our project it has been quite the journey if you haven't watched our renovation then do check it out and if you have been watching then thank you for following we hope you've enjoyed it cheers thanks for watching guys i hope you enjoyed this home tour let me know what you thought in the comments below and be sure to like and subscribe we've got plenty more home tours coming your way