SUMMER 2009/10

“MULLUM MASTERPIECE”

Breathing new life into an old weatherboard cottage lead Ed Davis of Davis Architects on a bumpy journey.  Each stage of the renovation saw the need for clever design solutions and a lot of hard work.  The results speak for themselves in his now modern and spacious new Mullumbimby home that remains loyal to its roots with a definite nod to the past.

Like wrinkles on an elderly face this home has the scars and deep set marks that tell the story of it’s past, a 1940’s pre-war cottage, it was sawn in half and shipped from it’s original home in Lismore to settle at it’s current site in Mullumbimby in 1994.  The scars of this journey still remain with the saw-line still visible on some walls of the home.

“This style is very typical north coast ‘cottage-style’, with the little windows and closed verandahs” explains Ed “it was pretty traditional with small rooms so we basically just opened it all up”.