A Waterfront Family Home With a Modern Garden and Landscape Design (House Tour)

Gordons Bay House by Secret Gardens and Milieu Creative is a waterfront family home with the perfect modern garden and landscape design to match.

Perched on a steep incline in picturesque Gordons Bay (Sydney, Australia), a tiered landscape and garden design from Secret Gardens sees the outdoor spaces match the uncompromising and site-specific house they surround.

A passion project of sorts for Secret Gardens founder Matt Cantwell, the brief for the waterfront family home was simple but demanding in its own right. “The garden and landscape design needed to complement the architectural style of the waterfront family home, but the clients also wanted something unique and confronting,” Matt explains.

Working within the inherited footprint, the project saw the architectural and interior renovation of a previously closed-off home, in which Davina Bester of Milieu Creative injected a sense of warmth and connection to the site through materiality, openness and key texturally refined elements to create the new waterfront family home for the clients, her brother Aidan and wife, Aleks.

Opening up to its ocean view overlooking Gordans Bay, the connected living, dining and kitchen space welcomes in the waterfront views and the aural and aromatic additions that come with it.

Achieving a balance of intimacy and ambition, a feat made all the more impressive by the project’s inherent challenges, Secret Gardens have created a dramatic and textural modern garden and landscape response to the site and the home’s architecture.

Produced by The Local Project.
Filmed by Cheer Squad Film Co.

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[mdavis]

This house is the definition of a multi generational home, I couldn’t ever imagine selling!!! Strikingly warm for a modern design.

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I’ve walked past this house so many times on my way from Clovelly to Coogee, it inspires me every time just looking at it. It nice to see the thought that went into to create such a beautiful home

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Walked past this house the lockdown. Amazing design

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They've done very well to make such a steep property look homey.

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Stunning! Brilliant use of plantings to hide retaining walls. It will just get better over time.

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An iconic location and exceptional design outcome! I look forward to each new video from The Local Project :)

[arlenehutchinson]

Whatever they paid for that landscape overhaull was BEYOND WORTH EVERY PENNY. Just perfection. House value went up exponentially UP UP AND AWAY

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