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Private property
Little is revealed of this West Coast contemporary home from the street
– but at the rear it opens up to take in tranquil protected forest views
Above: Having a long narrow site with forest
surrounds helped architect Brad Lamoureux
design this house with the privacy that the owners
wanted. The garage – seen here opened up – sits in
front of the house, while the home’s more private
interior spaces open to the rear of the property.
Facing page top: Though the garage is separated
from the house by a water feature, its back wall is
fully glazed to maintain a sense of connection.
Facing page lower: This view towards the home’s
entrance in the background shows how the thick,
cedar-clad garage doors pivot open.

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Designing a home to fit on a long narrow
site can present its own challenges. But for
the property featured here, the 70x17m
shape of the site suited the owners’
requirement for privacy – helped also by
the presence of forest reserve on two of the
boundaries.
Designed by architect Brad Lamoureux,
little of the house is revealed from the street
due to the positioning of the garage.
“The garage sits about 4.5m in front of
the house, separated from it by a reflection
pond, and surrounded by lush planting to

soften the architectural concrete used on
the two buildings,” says Lamoureux.
“If the garage was attached, we would
have had to include i