06/09/2026
[ STYLING ] Revitalising a 1970s Home With a Cool Contemporary Look: This renovation promotes indoor-outdoor living and colour to work around a growing family's love of a free-flowing floor plan
How do you reconfigure an older home’s floor plan and introduce modern finishes while keeping a retro style intact? The owners of this ’70s abode in Melbourne were keen to blend the best of the house’s mid-century features while contemporising the living spaces to suit their lifestyle. The problem as they saw it was that the existing floor plan had no clear circulation flow and lacked connection to the outdoors and, as spending time outdoors in the property’s spacious backyard was intended to be a big part of the family’s lifestyle, getting this right was an important part of the brief given to the couple’s chosen designers, Nest Architects.
Read more at: https://www.houzz.com.au/magazine/houzz-tour-revitalising-a-1970s-home-with-a-cool-contemporary-look-stsetivw-vs~71388928