Trafford Residence

Trafford Avenue is a straightforward alteration done properly — the kind of project that makes up most of the work in Melbourne’s period suburbs and rarely gets photographed.

The rear of the weatherboard was replaced with a run of black-framed glazing opening onto a hardwood deck, which turned a dark back half of the house into the part the family uses.

Internally the palette is marble, warm brass and soft grey stone, with brushed brass tapware and ribbed glass pendants running as a thread through every wet area.