An Art Collector's Luxury Home Tour! 🙌 You Won't Believe This Architectural Warehouse Conversion!

Hi, guys. Lucy here from Hunting for George. Today, I am in Paran, and I have a very unconventional home to take you through. It's part art gallery, part residence, and it's unlike anything else I've ever seen. Let's take a look. So I said this was unlike any other. This is essentially a building within a building. So that front facade is an original warehouse, so it's flanked by those existing brick walls. But this glass door is actually the front entrance to this home. So the ground floor of this home is actually dedicated to a gallery space. And in fact, the clients, the homeowners, went to the architect, and their brief was art first, home second. There is just so much to take in in this space. I really am quite lost for words. As soon as I walked through that front door, this digital artwork caught my eye, and I loved the movement in here. And there's so much catching for your attention, but this is actually an incredible gravitational pull leading you towards the back of this home. Through here, we have a powder room. Through here, we have the home office. Very well said. So this is encased by this internal courtyard, again, with that existing brick wall from the original warehouse. We have a home gym, a very enviable home gym at that. Another powder room here, a shower, toilet, everything you need after a sweaty session. I love the artwork. I can see a Stormy Mills on the artwork out there. And as well as that, there's this beautiful vertical garden. So any place that can have art has definitely found art. Watch your step. So here we come through into the dining room. So this is off that open plan gallery area. I love how dramatic it is in here, this long banquet table with very indulgent styling. And again, the way just every wall is just celebrated with artwork. This hanging piece is so special. It's casting the most beautiful amount of shadow. We have another internal courtyard, which faces onto a very cozy ground floor living space. I really love how intimate it feels here. We've got these lower lying ceilings with this charred timber on the ceiling. And also, it's just so rich and indulgent. It's dedicated to warmth and the fire. We are surrounded by the fireplace as well as this beautiful artwork. And these wonderful indigenous pieces with ochre and beautiful warm tones from a range of different indigenous artists. That red velvet curtain is very special as well. I said this was about a gallery space, and galleries are also fantastic for entertaining. So in order to throw a party, you need supplies. So this is a ground floor entertainer's kitchen, ready for all the guests. We also have a laundry through there as well, and a double garage. But I'm going to take you upstairs. It's time. I love these carpeted stairs. So soft. So quiet. I'm going to choose a bottle of wine for dinner. Don't mind me. So now that we've transitioned up to this upper level, we're now in the heart of the home. And it means cozier living, lower lying ceilings, and it's just has such a wonderful warmth as well. Through here, we have a butler's pantry. Love the black and white marble contrast on this island. It's incredibly dark and moody in here, but there's a wonderful amount of light coming through. That gives you a peek of what's to come. But as well as opening those curtains up, I also wanted to open up this because I do love a very clever hidden TV. I love those details within a home. Just the colors, the artwork in this home are absolutely sensational. There is so much to see, but first I want to take you through to the master bedroom. Brace yourselves. You can go first. The interior design and styling of this room, I am just all for it. I just feel like I'm some sort of jungle queen. I love the playful wallpaper. I love the rich, deep green tones and these goldy mustards. That Cape Bergen artwork is just so perfect in that space. And you can also hear beautiful running water, which is coming from that suspended pool, which I need to show you very, very soon. But okay, this quite literally blew my mind. This might actually have to be the most exciting and just the most indulgent walk-in rope I have ever seen. I mean, some of these pieces are incredible. What do you mean some? Actually, all of the pieces are incredible. Pull-out shoe storage. Oh my God. I think we just found the fifth sex in the city character. This is amazing. But it continues. The indulgence continues. Come on through. Welcome to the master en suite. Very generous proportions in here. I absolutely love these deep aquatic blue tiles. We saw them on that lower level powder room as well. They're very dramatic and I literally have no words. Our en suite opens up to a nice private, secluded courtyard space leading onto our pool area and spa. We have three bedrooms on this upper level. We have a bathroom, two bedrooms and an en suite at the rear of this building. First, the bathroom. I love how unique every single interior is in this home. Okay. Believe it or not, not done yet. This space in the home, because you get a sense of the scale and you can see the three different levels. You can see down to that ground floor and that internal courtyard. The level that we're on now with this suspended pool, which I'm about to take you out to, and the full extent of it, this staircase actually goes up to the rooftop, which let's check out this rooftop, shall we? But we're going to go this way. I love how those doors open completely up to this terrace area. So this is still on this upper level, but we do have a rooftop terrace. What do you think? Not your average home, is it? Do you know what? There's a lot to take in and a lot more detail that I need to show you about this house. So let's go downstairs. I'm going to get a drink and let's sit down and take a closer look at this house. I'm generally quite parched after all that. That was actually quite the walk. This home is completely unconventional and it's just so damn confident. And I really am quite taken back and intimidated by how much cool factor this home has. But at the same time, I really want to be its friend. The owners have been incredibly bold to really lead with the artwork for this home and have that kind of dictate the energy and the way this home really comes to life. The leading architects behind this design were Nick Travis and Justin Northrop from Techni Architects. And they are very well accustomed to that industrial meets residential design. But this really is quite a unique home. It's set on a 520 square meter block in Peran and it actually used to house an old textile warehouse. But recently, it was mainly just used for storage. The original warehouse building was built in 1920s and it was quite a simple and understated building. The architects, however, did want to keep that exterior brick facade and in fact, decided to create a building within a building. So the home is actually enveloped by those original brick walls of that warehouse. And from the street, you'd never actually guess what lies beneath this home. It kind of has an almost Alice in Wonderland aspect to it. As soon as you open that front door, you are just completely taken into another world. And it's one of just filled with so much energy and life. And it really does transport you into a totally different dialogue and none that you would ever anticipate ever coming across in a home. So the idea of that warehouse-style home is really celebrated on that ground level. And that is a very much an open plan gallery space. And you do feel like you could literally be in the middle of an art gallery in any part of the world, to be honest with you. Those inset floating walls hold the artwork beautifully. They are quite large and very generous in their proportions and they do allow for the artwork to be changed. And I've been told that the owner does like to change around the artwork from time to time. So there definitely is the space and the flexibility to do that. I was quite impressed with the scale of that ground floor because it is incredibly grand. There's very high ceilings, there's lots of robust materials, a very strong contrast with that steel cladding, those steel staircases, that off-form concrete. But they've also managed to bring a level of softness to it as well. I loved those low-lying ceilings in all of the different living areas, both in the ground floor and in the upper living areas as well. It's actually a traditional Japanese charred timber technique called shōshugi ban. My Japanese followers can let me know if I said that correctly or not. But it really does bring those living areas to life and add a wonderful sense of warmth to the space. The use of textures as well is incredibly important because it kind of has this sort of brutalist feel about it. I mean it is very robust, it's very much a warehouse vibe. So the concrete, the steel, those strong materials can often feel cold but they've managed to kind of pull that back slightly by adding levels of texture and warmth through those beautiful velvet plush curtains, the timber cladding that we spoke about and just the wonderful velvets throughout the home, the choice of decor and just the level of depth and texture and just colour. I think colour in the artwork is really what captivates me in this home and it's that energy and excitement that just keeps you sort of entertained. It's not a cool dark box, it's a cool dark box that has literally been brought to life by the owner's possessions and the artwork and this was very much the driving force for the architecture you know. It was all about the art, it was all about making that the hero so the architecture essentially just had to provide the perfect base in which for everything else to sing. So a lot of the artwork in this home is actually by Australian artists and look I can't mention them all but I can mention a few of them. I'm looking out onto these wonderful photographic prints from Tom Blatchford. That large artwork next to the fireplace is by Tim Storia and is joined by those natural warm colours of that stringy bark which is from a range of different Indigenous artists including Eddie Unning-Mirrakerry and Marcus Pascoe. Those swamp wallabies at the base of the stairs, I think they might be my favourite, they are beautiful sculptures by Peter Cooley. That very striking digital artwork by TeamLab, that is really pulling you to the back of that space. One of my favourite artworks though is probably the Kate Bergen, the Venetian room in the master bedroom. That artwork just completely sets the tone for that space, it really is this kind of urban jungle in there. I love the feeling, it's very indulgent and it's complemented beautifully by the interior design. Lush colours and very generous proportions are throughout this home but especially in that master bedroom with that walk-in robe and ensuite. The colour of those tiles was so rich and so just relaxing to be honest with you. The blue of those tiles just had a wonderful feeling, it added a lot of energy and just such a dynamic sense to that space. Speaking of energy as well, I really love the colour palette within the kitchen. I think that has been treated incredibly well, that dark marble meets the white marble, it complements beautifully, it's very dark, it's very moody but again it's just lifted by the natural light that's streaming through the windows and from the colour that's popping up from the artwork and the decor that surrounds it. One of my favourite aspects of this home is probably that staircase, in fact the architects refer to it as the knuckle and I really love how strong it is, it kind of just reveals the home in so many different angles and perspectives and it allows the most wonderful amount of lighting and it's where you truly get a sense for scale and you realise just how big this home is and I'm quite shocked that this home is actually only 520 square metres, it feels so much bigger than that when I'm here but they really have just maximised every single inch of this block and of course they've gone up and the ability to have those private courtyards as well as that rooftop terrace that really does create such an urban oasis. When I walked into this home for the first time I truly was lost for words, there's no doubt that this gallery-cum-home is unconventional but it's so uniquely confident it works. Thanks for watching guys, I hope you enjoyed this very unique home tour, I would love to know what you thought so leave me a comment below and if you haven't already please like and subscribe to my YouTube because we've got plenty more videos coming your way.