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An extension was added to the northern
end of the bach and a new monopitched
roof installed over the entire building.
“There was considerable talk about
replacing the small windows and cladding,” says one of the owners. “But we
didn’t want to disguise the building’s
origins. Rather, we felt we should clearly
differentiate the old part from the new.”
With this in mind, the design team
retained the look of the original bach,
replacing rotting wood windows with
exact copies where necessary. This part of

the house was then painted in dark-grey
Resene Gravel, while the new extension
was painted in the lighter shade Resene
Half Gravel.
The darker grey colour is repeated in
a new honed, stacked concrete block wall
on one side of the extension, providing a
subtle visual link between front and back.
“The new part of the house is also
clearly differentiated by its structure,”
says the owner. “We have left the steel
structural columns and framing exposed
at the north end of the house, which is now

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two storeys high, with a large, elevated
covered veranda. The galvanised steel has
not been painted or powdercoated.”
The aluminium joinery is also very
different from the original wood. On the
east side of the house, the windows are
tall and the weatherboards are vertical.
While on the west side, the windows are
long and narrow and the weatherboards
run horizontally.
To provide a sense of substance, the
walls of the new part of the house are
25cm thick. This creates deep reveals for