Grand Designs Transformations - Season 2 Episode 06 Balaclava Hat Factory and Paddington Ja
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00:00While building a dream house is for some...
00:08This is brilliant.
00:09This is where we're up to.
00:11...many others are transforming existing homes.
00:14Got it. Got it.
00:17Smashing down walls, ripping out kitchens and digging up gardens...
00:23Oh, there you go.
00:25...as they reimagine their homes as places to live, work and thrive.
00:30It's gonna be a bathhouse. Why not, eh?
00:33Bathrooms are the hardest thing to renovate.
00:35I'll go turn that off.
00:37Come on.
00:39I'm gonna die before we move into this house.
00:42I'm Anthony Burke, a professor of architecture.
00:46And I'm interior designer Yasmeen Janine.
00:50And in each episode of this new series of Grand Designs Transformations...
00:54...every single person has kind of said, you're crazy.
00:57We follow the makeover masterminds behind two very different projects.
01:02I do question the stupidity of doing something like this.
01:06OK, this is good.
01:13You wanted some space and you've got tons of space.
01:16This week, I'm in Melbourne's balaclava.
01:19With a couple seeking elbow room.
01:22More light, more space.
01:24But how do you turn an old hat factory into a home?
01:28You're actually punching a hole right through, so it's an open courtyard.
01:31One, two, three...
01:32Don't push!
01:34How much is too much?
01:36Oh my God, it looks so much bigger than I thought.
01:41And I'm in Sydney's Paddington, where a lifetime of passions...
01:45I've been to Japan 70 times.
01:48Whoa!
01:49I love these!
01:50...is being crammed into one tiny terrace.
01:55This is the cellar, this is the masterpiece.
01:57Isn't it fantastic?
01:58Maybe I'm being a bit mischievous, maybe playful because I can be.
02:04But creating the perfect home can exact a heavy toll.
02:09Tomorrow, I'm going in for some open heart surgery.
02:12They're going to open me up.
02:28It's market day in the eclectic Melbourne suburb of balaclava.
02:38It's got working class roots and a swag of bohemian cool.
02:45These are cute.
02:47Hi!
02:48Isabel Santos and Paul Reid love the energy of the place.
02:54I am going to try the pistachio one.
02:57She's all detail.
03:00He's all vibe.
03:02Together, they just click.
03:04I want to try the pink one.
03:06We met early 2000s.
03:09Five.
03:112005.
03:13And then I think we were married 2012.
03:162011.
03:18Nearly.
03:20Oh, much better.
03:22Isabel and Paul met through work.
03:23She's an account management executive.
03:25He's a company director.
03:27They were living five minutes away in St Kilda when opportunity knocked loudly.
03:33We weren't really looking to buy, but I was having a bit of a snoop around and fell in love.
03:39Peering through the windows.
03:40I was peering through the windows of the property.
03:43And when we walked in and had a look at it, we just sort of fell in love with the place.
03:49What's not to love?
03:50This is something special.
03:51A century old, former hat factory.
03:55330 square metres of rustic but quiet haven.
03:59Smack bang in the middle of all this crowded city life.
04:03So this is our property right here.
04:09Down the laneway, we've got another entrance through these gorgeous brass doors.
04:17So you can see just how much space there is.
04:21It's very open.
04:22There's no doors other than going into the bathrooms and the toilets.
04:27After eight years of enjoying the hat factory as they found it,
04:31they now want to change things up a bit, creating more defined areas in the warehouse
04:37without losing any of its spaciousness.
04:39We did really want to keep that openness.
04:41So I think people always question, you know, it's just the two of you rattling around in a big property.
04:47But I think when they see the finished product, people will get it.
04:50Yeah.
04:56Hey Paul, Isabelle.
04:58Hey Anthony, how are you?
05:00I'm great, how are you?
05:01Nice to see you.
05:03You wanted some space.
05:04You wanted a warehouse and you've got tons of space.
05:07So tell me, what are you thinking?
05:08Because you've got so many things you could do here.
05:10Anthony, when we thought about it, our slightly counter-intuitive view was to keep the space and try and make the space bigger.
05:18Yeah.
05:19Rather than cut it up into smaller pieces, actually try and enlarge the area and more light, more space.
05:27Yeah.
05:28We came up with the courtyard idea because it has the principle of bringing light in.
05:33Which is right here.
05:34Which is right here.
05:35And it's the principle of being an oasis, which is why it's got a pond in it.
05:39A small oasis.
05:41A pond in the oasis.
05:42Correct.
05:43So just to be sure, in my mind, you're actually punching a hole right through.
05:47Yes.
05:48So it's an open courtyard.
05:49Yes.
05:50You should be able to sit in here and watch the rain come into your house.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Go into the pond and disappear.
05:55Okay.
05:56It's quite the vision.
05:57The plan is to create different zones for living, not with walls, but with materials and light.
06:08On the ground floor, which is a part-time office and part-time guest wing, they'll add a courtyard with a blingy grass water feature and bring in light via a huge hole that will be punched into the roof two storeys up.
06:21On the floor above, with sunshine also flooding into the living areas, a fireplace in the middle of the floor and a huge shiny brass, yes, brass kitchen will act as gathering spots.
06:34Finally, on the upper mezzanine level, there's the main bedroom, bathroom and an outdoor bath on the terrace.
06:45It's a bold plan, allowing the Hat Factory to maintain the sense of space, but with more light and a lot more defining features.
06:53So we'll have the lovely living area around here, kitchen to the left, and our bedroom will go upstairs in the new mezzanine.
07:03This is brilliant, yeah?
07:04This is what really sold it to us.
07:06And I think my idea was that you come up through the stairs and the brass kitchen island is really there and it's a statement piece.
07:14It's about the only key statement piece in this really open space.
07:17I'm starting to think it might be a bit of a shouting piece because it's pretty loud.
07:22Most people are expecting two or three bedrooms, places to lock themselves away, the traditional kind of pattern of living, which this whole project sort of turns on its head.
07:31Yes.
07:32So what's your total spend?
07:34Just under 1.5.
07:36Okay.
07:37I think that seems to me to be relatively reasonable.
07:40Yeah.
07:41How long is all of this going to take you?
07:43Well, we're about three months in.
07:45Mm-hmm.
07:46We had planned for it being a 12-month project, so we've got nine months to go.
07:52What happens though if you go over that next nine months?
07:56Well, we're currently in a one-bedroom flat and we're living with two cats.
08:00So if we stretch it too long, I think they'll be...
08:04They'll destroy everything we own, I think.
08:06Or they'll abscond and leave us.
08:09I think they call that a catastrophe.
08:14And it's not the only concern.
08:19There certainly are some bold and very expensive ideas going on here.
08:23A brass kitchen, a waterfall, an indoor courtyard.
08:27All this way of bringing meaning, a kind of visual signposting of how and where to be in all of this space.
08:35There are some great ideas, but I'm just not sure how practical they all are and how it's all going to look.
08:51It's a blustery winter's morning at the Hat Factory.
08:54Three months in, it's the biggest day of the build so far.
08:58Andrew and the team have cut a slither in the roof and then the crane is going to lower a three-tonne,
09:06I don't know how heavy it is, a three-tonne beam that's going to sit right across here.
09:11That beam will support the newly created mezzanine level for Paul and Isabelle's bedroom suite.
09:17The beam's massive, 11 metres long.
09:21It's going to be a tight squeeze.
09:24I'm really quite keen to see how you swing this beam into position.
09:27How am I, actually? Yeah.
09:29Builder Andrew has to thread one very large needle.
09:33Going well.
09:34They are a long bone, but they know what they're doing and we've given them enough space to do it.
09:40Actually, it's not really a lot of space.
09:45Architect Adrian Light has his fingers crossed.
09:48You just don't want it to knock any of these walls or knock this truss,
09:53because if you knock that truss then you take the whole roof down.
09:56They're very heavy.
09:58Right up, down, slowly.
10:00Right there.
10:02Good there, Dave.
10:04Coming up here now, mate.
10:07Head coming down slowly, please.
10:10The beam is exactly the width of the building.
10:13Got to get underneath that last pearl and wait up.
10:16It needs to be positioned perfectly on concrete pillars.
10:20We're at 200 in.
10:22Hold it there.
10:23You know it's getting tight when everyone's measuring the cap.
10:28Just get rid of it, take it up, touch.
10:31Do you want to get it down or not?
10:33No, we can get it down.
10:34Just get it down, thanks.
10:36Right on the gym down.
10:37We're there.
10:38Yeah, I'm sitting on my path.
10:42That's it, Dave.
10:43It's in.
10:45Paul and Isabelle's mission to give new life to this old building
10:49is off to a good start.
10:51To get this bit right, in place, correct,
10:54really does set the rest of the build off.
10:57So this is a big moment.
10:58Yeah.
10:59Meanwhile in Sydney, Ian Scott has had a few big moments of his own.
11:12A British student in Australia for the first time.
11:16meeting the locals and lapping up the laid back lifestyle.
11:22I came out here when I was 26.
11:24I came here to do my MBA.
11:27I was here for five years.
11:29Fell in love with the place.
11:31It was very clear to me, this is really where I wanted to be.
11:34But fate had other plans.
11:37He scored a job in Singapore for a global consulting company
11:41and went on to become a high-flying manager director
11:44travelling to more than 85 countries the world over.
11:49But one in particular held what's become a lifelong fascination.
11:53Japan has got a special place.
11:57I think it's the mountains, the food, the art, the architecture.
12:02It was the journey of discovery.
12:04I think I've been to Japan 70 times.
12:0870 times.
12:10Now there's an obsession.
12:12And he's not done with it yet.
12:16Now retired and finally settled back in Australia,
12:19he's got some interesting plans
12:21to bring his love of all things Japanese down under.
12:24Nice to be back.
12:25Exciting as all of that was,
12:27I always had a plan to come back.
12:30It took me 28 years to get there.
12:33But this is home.
12:34It's a good feeling to be back home in Australia.
12:38But do you find it hard sometimes
12:39when everyone else is still working?
12:42No.
12:43Although I've been in several long relationships,
12:48part of me has always been quite singular.
12:50So where there's the house, it's freedom.
12:52It's like open season.
12:54This design for me is maybe I'm being a bit mischievous,
12:57maybe playful because I can be.
13:01And here's Ian's playground,
13:03an iconic Paddington Terrace in Sydney's eastern suburbs
13:07that he bought in 2005 for $1.125 million.
13:12His plans?
13:16To fill the house with his lifetime's collection of treasures,
13:20including a $20,000 model train network.
13:25But what's most intriguing is his architectural inspiration.
13:30Behind me, the distinctive concrete,
13:32use of glass and the steel.
13:35My interest in Japanese architecture
13:37has kind of been a wandering journey.
13:39I wouldn't say I'm an expert,
13:40but I just enjoy the aesthetic.
13:42That look with the clean lines
13:44that you see in the work of people like Tadao Ando.
13:48Tadao Ando is the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect,
13:52whose minimalist raw concrete style
13:54and focus on geometric forms and light play
13:57is the antithesis of a frilly, dark and pokey Victorian terrace.
14:04Now, to try and translate some of that aesthetic
14:06into a Paddington house is a bit tricky,
14:09especially for me that collects things.
14:11Japanese clean lines,
14:13injected into the wonky walls of a 130-year-old terrace.
14:18Now, this promises to be one hell of a journey.
14:22Well, it's a very typical Victorian terrace, isn't it?
14:25They're so tight. What, three and a half metres wide?
14:27Correct.
14:28But let's go inside.
14:29You're going to get a big surprise when you go in the front door.
14:30Let's go.
14:31Shall I go in first?
14:32OK, come in.
14:34Mind the step here.
14:36Whoa!
14:37What do we have here?
14:38Hello.
14:39This is the cellar.
14:40This is the masterpiece.
14:41Isn't it fantastic?
14:42It's very unexpected.
14:43Yeah.
14:44So, this wasn't here before?
14:45None of this was here.
14:46We built it from scratch.
14:47So, how much have you sunk in this?
14:50Sunk's the right word.
14:51Yeah.
14:52About $60,000 or $70,000.
14:54Whoa!
14:55So, they took 40 tonnes of soil out of here.
14:57It's a whole room, basically.
14:58It's a whole room.
14:59It's a whole room.
15:00So, it's now a four-storey house.
15:01And so, what's happening in this room?
15:03So, this will be the front room, above it, the level above.
15:06It's going to be ochre red, with a sort of burnt wood floor.
15:09Ochre red?
15:10Yeah.
15:11Wow, that's an interesting 10th century.
15:12And the Japanese, I mean, how does that fit in with the Japanese?
15:15The Japanese...
15:16No, this isn't happening in Japanese.
15:17This is the Australian bit.
15:18You'll go through the door, and then you'll strayed into something which is Japanese influence.
15:22It's a complete change in colour, so it's going to look completely different.
15:26From the street, the terrace will give nothing away.
15:30Classic and white.
15:32But inside, it's a whole different story.
15:35The ochre front room with black timber floors.
15:38A celebration of the Australian outback with a striking large circular window peering into the cellar below.
15:45A small, all-black bathroom will be a welcome addition to the original floor plan.
15:54Leaving Ian's ode to Australia, you enter the minimalist world of Japan,
15:59with open-plan kitchen and dining room in grey, black and stainless steel,
16:04with a $24,000 burnished concrete floor paying homage to Ian's architectural pin-up boy Tadao Ando.
16:13The staircase, painted in the ochre palette, bleeds upstairs,
16:17where the Japanese theme of clean lines continues,
16:20with two bedrooms, a bathroom and black-butt timber terrace.
16:25And to top it all off, on the third-floor loft,
16:28a room purpose-built for Ian's prized model train network.
16:34One thing's clear.
16:36This project is a celebration of a life well lived.
16:39But what's a bit muddy is how harmonious the convergence of the two worlds will be.
16:46What you're trying to pull off is pretty hard.
16:49Marrying so many different aesthetics in a Victorian terrace.
16:53Agreed. Let's see how it comes out.
16:56Budget-wise?
16:58The whole thing's 1.3 million.
17:01That's a pretty decent budget.
17:02Yes.
17:03How long?
17:04Only eight months.
17:05I mean, this is a really big undertaking.
17:07The thing is, I'm doing what I want to do.
17:09Hmm.
17:10Um, so it's my risk.
17:12Let's see how it looks when it's finished.
17:17Woo! I don't know where to begin.
17:19I mean, there's a lot going on in that very tiny terrace.
17:22But will a combination of all these different aesthetics really turn into a complete mishmash of ideas?
17:28I'm hoping that Ian can connect to the zen-like principles of good Japanese design
17:35and come to the realisation that, well, sometimes less is more.
17:48It's a wet old winter's day in Sydney.
17:51And builder Glenn Paris and his team are doing the hard yards constructing Ian's underground cellar.
17:58Not that Ian's bothered.
18:00So Ian, while he's holidaying in Japan, is sourcing out, obviously, more material and finishes for this place.
18:06And has left us with the wet rainy day, seepage through here.
18:11Getting to this point has been a nightmare.
18:13We had water problems leaking in through here.
18:15We had the foundations underneath there caving in.
18:18But the boys have managed to punch through it.
18:21And today we're going to spray concrete, which will help waterproof.
18:26Fingers crossed we're not going to have a problem with any dampness in Ian's cellar.
18:29OK, good this side.
18:34Now the sun's come out, so we have a good day in front of us now.
18:38Everyone!
18:43Staying on the wall so far.
18:48It'll keep the water outside of this.
18:55Basically a reverse swimming pool.
19:00Just nice to see the backside of this.
19:02Ian's going to be stoked when he gets back.
19:04There'll be quite a few bottles of nice red wine going in here.
19:07The cellar is just one indulgence.
19:12Not to mention what's going on in the loft.
19:15A job Glenn and architect Alex Ng are getting on board with.
19:19The train set that's going up here, your train room,
19:22is basically going to run off this wall.
19:26This project is an interesting little job.
19:29Ian's idea of that Japanese influence,
19:32but giving him those detailed finishes is going to be challenging.
19:36I mean, we can do something with the ceiling.
19:38That becomes part of that table and the train set.
19:42What he's going to finish with here is going to be quite different.
19:46Like walking through a story, this place.
19:49As stories go, it's a page turner.
19:52So many big ideas in one little terrace.
19:56I'm just hoping it all comes together for a happy ending.
20:03The ending is nowhere in sight in Melbourne's bohemian balaclava.
20:08But four months into the hat factory build,
20:10the mezzanine and rooftop deck is taking shape.
20:14It's the first of the carefully defined zones
20:17which this enormous space needs
20:19to give it structure and escape the empty warehouse vibe.
20:23Now, architect Adrian is turning his attention
20:26to the internal courtyard on the ground floor.
20:29Excellent. All right.
20:30In particular, a water feature which, if successful,
20:33will bring this corner of the building to life.
20:36So would we have that brass thing all the way up?
20:39Yeah, definitely. We'll go right to the top.
20:41Isabel's someone that really kind of likes the big thing.
20:44So we're going to kind of jazz it up for her.
20:46It'll be shiny brass.
20:48It'll have light features coming through.
20:50It'll have the water cascading down.
20:52It's going to be a big item for her.
20:55The dark bit behind it.
20:56Might even get, you know, some light bouncing up into that second floor.
21:00I was anti the pond.
21:02I thought it was just using up space in the courtyard.
21:05So I think now it's growing on me as we've sort of built on it.
21:09Wow. Yeah.
21:10And now it's going to be an actual waterfall that comes from the top.
21:13We added some brass.
21:15And then that sold it.
21:16That was my addition.
21:17So now I'm, now I'm bought in.
21:19I'm really excited about that.
21:21I think it'll look good.
21:22All right, so this is it.
21:24This is not architect Adrian's first rodeo.
21:27He's got some hands on experience wrestling with big spaces.
21:32Ten years ago, his own home build featured on Grand Designs,
21:36an old vinegar factory in Melbourne's Northcote.
21:39It put up quite a fight.
21:42The bit got caught in the brick wall and just spun my hand around
21:47and pulled out these three fingers and broke the bones across here.
21:54The build did take a bit of a toll on me
21:57and I think we've really learned some lessons here.
22:05The end result was worth the pain.
22:09The once empty factory now feels like a home,
22:12with defined spaces like the mezzanine bedroom
22:15and courtyard for natural light.
22:19After 10 years, the building still holds up well.
22:21We're really looking forward to implementing some of the ideas
22:24that we introduced here into Paul and Isabelle's house.
22:29Far from being put off by Adrian's trials,
22:31Paul and Isabelle were so inspired by his build
22:35that they took on the hat factory.
22:37And they're past the point of no return anyway.
22:40That is, unless you like holes in your floor.
22:45Works well underway on Paul's indoor outdoor courtyard.
22:49So you can really see the shape now.
22:52Almost cathedral-like.
22:54You can actually see how the thing goes right up to the top,
22:56get a feel for what the space is going to look like.
22:59As soon as we cut a hole in the roof,
23:01this whole thing will be lit completely differently.
23:04Paul plans to use that new light to illuminate some ancient history.
23:10There's no dignified way of doing this.
23:14Today we are taking the white paint off the bricks.
23:18We decided that we wanted to do the bricks in the courtyard
23:22because we think that will give a great contrast for being inside.
23:26You actually feel the courtyard's outside.
23:28That should give us the red we're looking for.
23:41A bit of orange.
23:47This apparel's in Sydney and she's forever, you know,
23:49she rings me from Sydney saying,
23:51oh, you know, I wish I was doing something methodical like cleaning bricks.
23:58I'm not quite sure that's true,
23:59but she's telling me she really would prefer to be cleaning bricks.
24:03No, she wouldn't.
24:07And with Paul scraping solo, it's going to take an age.
24:10See, it's good to have him on site.
24:13He can take as long as he likes.
24:16Probably a month, I'd say, but no, he's going very well.
24:19Going very well.
24:23Kind of reminds me of my dentist.
24:30Back in Sydney's Paddington,
24:32Ian's returned from his 71st trip to Japan.
24:36Keen to get his first look at the freshly concreted cellar.
24:42Welcome to the cellar.
24:44That's pretty good, doesn't it?
24:45Finally.
24:46That's great.
24:47Nice.
24:48Shot created.
24:49Yep.
24:50All the walls have been completely waterproofed.
24:52Yep.
24:53I have this nice grey concrete thing on top of this.
24:55I think putting the glass panel in the middle like you described.
24:58Yeah.
24:59The glass panel will go roughly in the centre.
25:01It'll just sit on the glass.
25:02It'll go straight above here
25:03and then the light comes straight through from there into the cellar.
25:05Sweet.
25:06That'll look lovely.
25:07That'll look lovely.
25:08Builder Glen might be on the home stretch in the cellar,
25:12but in the loft there is another big challenge.
25:15Come and have a look.
25:16I've got some trains to show you.
25:22This is not your average train set.
25:24No, it's not.
25:25So these are all models from Japan?
25:26They're all Japanese.
25:27We're not just putting a flat base here for you to run a little steam train around.
25:30No, no, no.
25:31My idea of the train set was a little platform going around here with a couple of trains on it.
25:36Ian's come through with a video of five, six train lines, different levels.
25:42It's caught me by surprise a little bit.
25:44It's just mind-blowing.
25:47Now we have to work out how we get all these different levels in here.
25:51This is going to be an interesting little build.
25:53Should we get back to building the house?
25:54Let's go back to the easy job.
25:55The easy job.
25:56Build the house.
25:58Now four months into their eight-month deadline,
26:01There's been more than a few twists and turns on this very particular $1.3 million build.
26:11And today's no exception, with concreter Josh Coleman starting the Japanese-inspired burnished
26:18concrete floor in the kitchen and dining area.
26:21And the burnished is...the finish depends on how much you work it.
26:26Yeah, yeah.
26:27So that's...
26:28That's right, yeah.
26:29The artistic part on your side.
26:33Ian is looking for a very soft, fine, grey finish through here.
26:37Not so much the polished concrete with the heavy aggregate finishes in it,
26:41so that it keeps with that Japanese theme.
26:44Today's the main part.
26:45You've got to get all the processes right.
26:47We are currently just prepping the floor for the first coat of primer.
26:52Every step is crucial to get done right.
26:55For the finish, we need to make sure that there's no cracking, everything.
26:58It's all done properly.
27:00It's a multi-step process.
27:02First grinding so the primer sticks.
27:06Next, the underfloor heating goes in, followed by two finishing layers.
27:10And finally, the floor will be burnished with the polisher.
27:14For a simple, minimalist look, this is a complex, and at $24,000, very X-y process.
27:24It's going to be a cracker looking floor at the end of it.
27:28Good to hear, but with Ian busting to move in, they're going to need to hurry things along.
27:38Back in Melbourne, Isabelle and Paul are hoping for a hurry up too.
27:44Where's the other one? Where is Lulu?
27:46Oh, she's hiding somewhere.
27:48Yeah? Where is there to hide in this place?
27:50Renting a one-bedroom flat around the corner from their balaclava hat factory,
27:54with two cats, Lulu and Joopy, everyone's getting a little scratchy.
27:59It's cramped. It definitely is cramped.
28:02The cats are struggling.
28:07They're definitely a lot more used to having a lot more space.
28:11They've sort of had a go at the sofa.
28:13Anything that kind of entertains them, they've pretty much had a go at it.
28:17They're whipping the carpets out.
28:20Everything's getting damaged.
28:23Clearly, they need to get out.
28:29But there is light at the end of the tunnel.
28:34Lots of it.
28:36The heart of the transformation has always been to open up the roof
28:40and flood the building with sunshine.
28:42Today, at long last, it's happening.
28:46Look at that.
28:55What do you make of that?
28:56Oh, my God, it looks so much bigger than I thought.
28:59Yeah.
29:01So, is it all off?
29:03Yeah, all the roof is off.
29:05There you go. The courtyard is born.
29:07We have a courtyard.
29:09It makes you look up, doesn't it?
29:12Yeah.
29:13It actually looks really good.
29:15I'm happy with it.
29:18That's one big hole in the roof, all right.
29:21But what a difference it makes.
29:27Both the Hat Factory and the Paddington Terrace reject convention
29:31and celebrate personal tastes and passions.
29:34When successful, that focus can create a strikingly individual home.
29:40Like this one, I'm bringing Yaz to in Sydney's Darlinghurst,
29:45where their passion is light.
29:49This is a masterclass in atmosphere
29:52and how to capture the rays so there's sunshine in the house
29:55every single day.
29:56All right, little ray of sunshine, lead the way.
29:59At first, this looks like a classic Victorian terrace.
30:08And it is.
30:13But venture deeper,
30:14and there's a transformation designed by Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
30:18that just glows.
30:20This little corridor here kind of builds the anticipation
30:25and holds you back from this moment of...
30:29Wow.
30:31Holy moly.
30:34Wow.
30:35This is incredible, isn't it?
30:36It's all about the light, as you can see.
30:37You know, just these two sculptural light wells
30:41bringing all this glorious daylight into the room.
30:43And that's it.
30:44That's the room built around this sort of spectacular celebration
30:48of all this, you know, light falling, warming everything,
30:50and that's it.
30:52Everything else kind of steps back from that singular design move,
30:56and it's spectacular.
30:59These two massive light wells don't just pump light in.
31:03They drag your eye up.
31:05You can't look away.
31:08The fact that it's textured and brick is...
31:11Yeah.
31:12It allows this beautiful light play over the texture.
31:14Look at that, the shadows playing through that surface up there.
31:16I know.
31:17It's mind-blowing that this is a terrace.
31:19What a wonderful way to reimagine a very otherwise dark interior.
31:24Yeah.
31:25I haven't seen anything like it.
31:26It's quite special.
31:27It's incredible.
31:30Nothing here is an accident.
31:33Every play of light has been imagined.
31:35Then planned, then executed to perfection.
31:43And there's another example of that upstairs.
31:47This is the master, and it's beautiful,
31:49but this is what I really wanted you to see, the ensuite here.
31:52This is pretty phenomenal, isn't it?
31:54Yeah.
31:55So, what I'm so excited by here is it's just a single beautiful idea
32:00so beautifully rendered, yeah?
32:02Mm.
32:03It really is.
32:04And the simplicity has not come easy.
32:06Yeah.
32:07You cannot achieve simplicity without some very heavy lifting planning.
32:12Yeah.
32:13And every consideration, these set-downs for the soaps, the mixes,
32:17all of these very small details, seemingly small,
32:21make your everyday that much more enjoyable.
32:23Yeah.
32:24Both Paddington and Balaclava are very different projects to this.
32:29But there's a valuable lesson here.
32:31The single-minded pursuit of this vision of light is its greatest strength.
32:36But it's all so ordered and perfect.
32:39I mean, where's all the clutter?
32:42My question is, could you live like this?
32:46I could.
32:47Oh.
32:48Could you?
32:49No.
32:50I could definitely live like this.
32:51I want to.
32:52Sadly, it's just not in my genes.
32:54Fair enough.
32:59Back in Balaclava at the Hat Factory,
33:01Isabel is making a few rather individual design choices of her own.
33:07If the courtyard is Paul's baby,
33:09the brass kitchen is very much Isabel's.
33:13If it works, it will be the focus of the first floor,
33:17another defined zone giving structure to empty space.
33:21Sorry, Isabel.
33:22The timber framework has arrived and will be wrapped in brass sheets.
33:27Isabel is grilling brass consultant Ray and architect Adrian
33:30on the details.
33:31You'll end up with a strip of brass here.
33:34Yeah.
33:35A piece of this timber looking thing.
33:36Yeah.
33:37Another piece of brass, another timber looking bit.
33:39Yeah.
33:40You would hardly ever have two drawers open at a time.
33:43Or left open.
33:44Adrian.
33:45Adrian.
33:46This is the one place I spend most of my time.
33:48Yeah.
33:49It's the inner annoyingness when I open it
33:52three days after we move in and I go,
33:54I wish I did it in the brass.
33:55Yeah.
33:56That's fine.
33:57This is quite a new adventure for both ourselves as architects
34:01and indeed also the metal workers.
34:03I think this is only the second brass kitchen that they've done
34:06and it's the first brass kitchen that we've done.
34:08There's a reason no one does brass kitchens.
34:12It's four times more expensive than other commonly used metals
34:16and it marks really easily.
34:18Touch it with your fingers and you'll get,
34:20you can actually see your fingerprints on there like that.
34:22Yeah.
34:23So some of you are aware of it all.
34:25That's exactly what I want.
34:26Happy to give you a bit of brass and tape it home,
34:28put your cups on it.
34:29The intention is, is that it was never going to be
34:32the super bright, super shiny brass.
34:35Like actually I think what's going to be fun about it is,
34:38is as it ages, that's kind of more the look that I'm looking for
34:43because it kind of warms up a little bit.
34:47Isabel clearly knows what she wants.
34:50I just hope she understands what she's going to get.
34:53I just don't know if we'd be unhappy with the end result,
34:56I think.
34:57What we've got down here.
34:59Back in Sydney's Paddington, with a couple of months to go
35:07before move-in day, the underfloor heating's going down
35:11on Ian's prized Japanese-inspired burnished floor.
35:17But at the front, it's all about Australia.
35:21This is the really powerful ochre colour that I've chosen.
35:25On the walls, ceiling, skirting board,
35:28because it represents to me, Australia.
35:30Kimberley in particular.
35:32And then we've got a beautiful black wooden floor
35:35and the black bathroom as well.
35:37Black like you would have if a bushfire has gone through
35:39my front room.
35:40So really, quite a different statement.
35:42I kind of called it, for want of their expression,
35:44outback luxury.
35:47Wow.
35:48Well, he did say he was going to be playful with the house.
35:51And today's fun adventure...
35:53Let's have a look.
35:54Hunting for statement curtains with mate Paul.
35:57This looks brilliant, because it's got the kookaburras and the platypuses,
36:01but I don't know if that goes with the ochre.
36:04An expert guidance from textile designer Sophie Tatlow.
36:08Let's show you Paradise.
36:11It's a bit of a riff on the Daintree.
36:13Okay.
36:14It has lyrebirds in it.
36:15Oh, yeah.
36:16This is a tonal, earthy, beautiful addition to your Paddington parlour.
36:20Do you think it's going to work, Paul?
36:21With the chandelier and...
36:22Sure it's not too much?
36:23It's never too much.
36:24Never too much.
36:25It's never too much.
36:26Look at that colour.
36:27The fabrics are hand-drawn by artist Bruce Slorak in Sydney and hand-painted in India.
36:36And they don't come cheap.
36:38They're about $300 per metre.
36:41They're not the most expensive thing per square metre.
36:44The most expensive thing per square metre actually is the concrete floor.
36:47It's $600 per square metre.
36:53And getting more expensive by the minute.
36:59We install the lever on the top of your underfloor heating here.
37:02Yeah.
37:03And whenever you do this, you always get the heating on.
37:08Yep.
37:09And it's created some heel-on cracks throughout the floor.
37:13It seems some of the heater wiring was too close to the surface, causing the floor to crack.
37:21So we think the best way to go about this, unfortunately, is just to pull the floor up and redo it again and make it right.
37:32The floor here is a really big issue because this is the thing that's really going to bring out that Japanese aesthetic.
37:38And of course, if you stuff that up, then the whole thing doesn't really work.
37:42So this has got to be, this has got to be right.
37:48There goes Ian's plans to move in any time soon.
37:52But his biggest challenge is staying zen in all the chaos.
37:58At the Hat Factory, their 12-month deadline is almost up.
38:12With just three weeks to go, the shiny bronze water feature is being installed.
38:19Only to be out-blinged by the arrival of Isabelle's brass kitchen.
38:25I think it's got sticky things on it.
38:27How heavy is it?
38:29Your face is hard to read.
38:31It's 130 kilos, to be precise.
38:37And awkward.
38:39Do you want to come down for a second?
38:40Up here.
38:41It's heavy.
38:43The slightest bump could mark the brass, or even worse, dent it, and ruin the bench top.
38:51Thousands of dollars down the kitchen sink.
38:53Don't push.
38:54Don't talk it enough.
38:55Hold it.
38:56Hold it.
38:57Keep going.
38:58Keep going.
38:59Keep going.
39:00Keep going.
39:01Keep going.
39:02Whoa.
39:03Whoa.
39:04Whoa.
39:05Whoa.
39:06Whoa.
39:07Whoa.
39:08Whoa.
39:09Whoa.
39:10Well done.
39:11Mission accomplished.
39:18But Isabelle is not looking so sure.
39:23Ready?
39:24One, two, three.
39:25Will it actually work in the house, or just be a huge blingy brick?
39:30There you go.
39:31There's a first glimpse of what it's going to feel like, Iz.
39:36It's like a new pet.
39:40It's monolithic.
39:47Monolithic is a good word.
39:49It is.
39:50It's monolithic.
39:51Oh, dear.
39:53Are those the words of someone in love?
40:01In Paddington, Ian hoped to be in by now, but they're a month over the eight-month schedule.
40:09The concrete floor has been relayed, and site foreman Joshua Wiles has put the underfloor heating through its paces.
40:18We've had the floor heat on.
40:19We've heated it up and cooled it down.
40:20Yep.
40:21There's no cracking.
40:22It's much better than last time, yeah?
40:23Yeah, it's looking really good.
40:24So we're in a really good place for the floor now.
40:26We're getting to the stage where I'm getting itchy feet to get back in the house.
40:29I want to be cooking.
40:30I want to have my friends over for dinner.
40:32I want to enjoy the space.
40:35Sorry, Ian.
40:36There's a lot to do before then.
40:40There's the concrete floor to be laid in the entryway, along with its highly technical circular window into the cellar.
40:47It'll be nice to walk in and it's all underlit and you look down and you see the whiskies and gins. It'll be cool.
40:56The staircase and walls need painting for Ian's bold glow up.
41:01It's not my cup of tea, but it's definitely going to stand out.
41:08And on top of that, there's still the biggest job of all.
41:13Yep.
41:14Installing an $18,000 folded steel staircase down into the cellar.
41:19How am I going to back it?
41:21Ready?
41:22Yep.
41:23They're heavy and awkward, and getting them in is going to be a mission.
41:28We're going to have to twist it together, shall we?
41:30Once the stairs got designed, we thought, how are we going to get them in?
41:33They don't fit down through the hole for the staircase.
41:36They had to come through the hole where the glass panel's going in here.
41:40Imagine it, and it seems like it's going to fit, so hopefully we'll get it down here.
41:44It's all easy in theory.
41:52Right down there, Harley.
41:53Pull that bottom out towards the wall.
41:56Okay, it's going to sling. We're almost hung on.
41:59Stop. Let's go. Push.
42:01Oh, yep.
42:02Oh, yeah.
42:03It's in.
42:04All right.
42:05Oh, looks good.
42:06Yep.
42:09Mission accomplished.
42:10Well done.
42:12Far out.
42:14Now we can get the glass in, get the floor down.
42:17Ian now doesn't have to stress about whether the stairs fit.
42:22But it's not the stairs that Ian's worried about.
42:29So tomorrow I'm going in for some open heart surgery.
42:32They're going to open me up and fix a valve.
42:34I've had no symptoms all the way through the renovation.
42:37But here we are.
42:38So I'll be out of action for about three, four weeks.
42:45This house has been my life in soul for the past three years.
42:49I don't think the two are at all related in any way.
42:52We're all very concerned about his position at the moment because it's a big affair.
42:57It's a lot of stress on his part that he's not showing at the moment.
43:01Yeah, we wish him all the best.
43:03Hopefully everything goes right.
43:05It's spring in Sydney and Paddington's looking its pretty best.
43:28I'm hoping to find Ian fighting fit and loving life in his Japanese inspired playground.
43:36It's not giving away much, is it?
43:43Ian.
43:44Welcome back.
43:45You look incredible.
43:46Thank you, thank you.
43:47I'm very well.
43:48Big renovation on my heart.
43:49Big renovation on my house.
43:50Picture of health.
43:51You match this crispy white facade to perfection.
43:54Yes, I've got the outfit on.
43:57It's so unassuming.
43:59For a man who loves colour, I'm surprised that you went all white.
44:03You haven't seen inside yet.
44:04Shall I let you go in first?
44:05Yes.
44:06I can't wait.
44:07I have no idea what I'm about to get myself into.
44:09No, you haven't.
44:10Oh, whoa!
44:16Now we're talking!
44:17I know, isn't it fantastic?
44:19Oh!
44:20So good to see the use of bold colour.
44:23And it really, really welcomes you like this amazing hug.
44:27Yep.
44:28This is magic.
44:29The room has come out exactly as I imagined it.
44:34This is a very personal space.
44:36It's fantastic.
44:37All right, Ian.
44:38Let's talk about the hole in the room.
44:40You have a hole in your entry.
44:43Should we go down?
44:44Yes.
44:45Do you want to go down?
44:46Yes.
44:47Let me get out the magic.
44:48And there we go.
44:49Here we go.
44:50Oh, my God.
44:52Look at your face.
44:53I know.
44:54It's fantastic.
44:55It's like a kid in a candy shop.
44:57I love a good 007 moment.
44:5940 tonnes of excavated soil later...
45:03Wow!
45:05It's a feat of stunning engineering
45:08with a Japanese twist.
45:10It's really quite magical.
45:11It's like looking into a fire or a sun.
45:13I know Tadao Ando was a big inspiration for you
45:16and I can see his simplicity in form
45:18and his use of concrete in a lovely textural way.
45:21Yeah, this is very much like Ando's work.
45:24Yeah.
45:25And it's the shapes as well, as you can see.
45:27Yeah.
45:28What I really like about it
45:29is it's got this unexpected thing about it, right?
45:32Who on earth puts a cellar in a Paddington Terrace?
45:34It's a bit used to this.
45:35Yes.
45:36It's all so unexpected and dramatic.
45:38What other 007 moments do you have in store?
45:41Oh, there's plenty.
45:42Just wait till you go and see what's through in the next room.
45:44Oh!
45:45Past the new all-black bathroom...
45:47Very minimal.
45:48Yeah.
45:49..and into a whole other world.
45:54What a completely different experience
45:57we've just walked into.
45:59The width actually feels so much bigger
46:02than I thought it would have been.
46:04I think the light has a lot to do with it.
46:07Again, a beautiful nod to Tadao Ando.
46:09He was all about the natural light
46:11playing such a significant part to his interiors.
46:14This is Japanese minimalism.
46:17This gorgeous black ebony stained timber work here,
46:20it does scream Japan.
46:22Yep.
46:23It's the clean lines.
46:24I've always wanted to have a large bookcase.
46:26I've got some of my ceramics from my days back
46:28working in the UK 40 years ago.
46:30But again, that sentimental, you know,
46:33beautiful moments of your past appears in every corner.
46:37They all live somewhere within the house
46:40and that's why it's a successful interior
46:42because they're subtle but they mean so very much.
46:45And then, you know, the pièce de résistance is the floor.
46:48Yeah.
46:49And the floor continually changes colour and texture.
46:51I think it solidifies your connection
46:53Yeah.
46:54to the Japanese aesthetic.
46:56Can't wait to see what this red corridor does.
47:03Upstairs, the adventure continues.
47:06So good.
47:08Ian's bedroom suite and a study,
47:11which doubles as a guest room,
47:13all full of treasures from a lifetime of travel.
47:17Keeps the same minimalist feel.
47:20And in the loft, Ian's miniature marvel,
47:23Tokyo Central Station.
47:29Whoa!
47:30What's that one?
47:31So that one runs out of Kyoto.
47:32I've been on that one.
47:35Anything miniature, I'm obsessed with.
47:37I love these.
47:38And they're the lights.
47:39They're so cute.
47:42Oh, that's cool.
47:44That's really cool.
47:45Oh, I love it when they overlap like that.
47:48Ian said he was going to have fun with this house.
47:54And he wasn't joking.
47:56It's quirky and unique,
47:58just the way Ian likes it.
48:01Even if it did take a while.
48:03Now, how long did it take?
48:05Initially, we thought it was going to be eight or nine months.
48:07It's actually taken about 15 months.
48:10I'm guessing this wasn't a cheap exercise.
48:14How much did you actually spend?
48:16So I spent about $1.6 million.
48:19So that's $300,000 over.
48:22Yep.
48:23That's someone's entire renovation budget.
48:25I've been lucky in the position of being able to afford that.
48:28To fund that.
48:29To fund that.
48:30For me, it's money well spent because this is kind of my forever home.
48:34I was 28 years in Asia.
48:36I've been back about three years now.
48:38It's like a dream come true.
48:40So has the nomad actually found his home?
48:44Yeah, this is home.
48:45This is where I want to be.
48:47It's just magic.
48:55Welcome.
48:56Hi.
48:57Come in, dude.
48:58House Proud doesn't begin to describe it.
49:01This is the dungeon.
49:02This is the cellar.
49:03The dungeon.
49:04Ian really has created a home full of all of his favourite things.
49:09And who would have thought, look how talented he is.
49:12And now he can finally get to enjoy them.
49:15So we're here today celebrating the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning.
49:20I think we've created a masterpiece.
49:22It really was a fantastic experience.
49:23Cheers.
49:24Cheers.
49:25Cheers.
49:26Cheers.
49:27Back in Balaclava, Isabel and Paul's challenge to inject more light and spatial identity into
49:48their hat factory without losing any of its character has seen some very bold design decisions.
50:05I'm dying to see how it's all come together.
50:08There they are.
50:09Hi, how are you?
50:10Great to see you.
50:11Great to see you.
50:12Hi, Paul.
50:13And you.
50:14Great to see you.
50:15Well, it still looks like a warehouse.
50:16Actually, it's very much the same from the outside.
50:17It's like a secret little project, isn't it?
50:18It is.
50:19It is.
50:20I love your gold doors, though.
50:21You've been buffing those, haven't you?
50:22Yeah.
50:23Definitely.
50:24That's his job.
50:25But it's finished.
50:26I'm done.
50:27So we are done.
50:28Yeah.
50:29We are done.
50:30Okay.
50:31Is that a waterfall, I hear?
50:32A tropical cascade, no less?
50:33It is indeed.
50:34It's part of the oasis field.
50:36I've got to have a look at the waterfall.
50:38I'm done.
50:39I'm done.
50:40I'm done.
50:41I'm done.
50:42I'm done.
50:43I'm done.
50:44I'm done.
50:45I'm done.
50:46I'm done.
50:47I'm done.
50:48I've got to have a look.
50:49Yeah, absolutely.
50:50Come on in.
50:51Come on in.
50:52Cheers.
50:57Oh, yes!
50:58This is the whole surprise you've been home, isn't it?
51:01You come through the gold.
51:02You meet the gold fountain over here.
51:05The water and the sound masking the city behind you.
51:09It's already calming.
51:10It is.
51:11And that was the whole intention of it, right?
51:13Yeah.
51:14To give us a little bit of a space here that felt like a little cocoon for us.
51:17It's a pretty inspired idea.
51:18And the whole purpose of this courtyard is to get the lights to flood in.
51:23Yeah.
51:24And that is working.
51:25Mission accomplished there.
51:26And it's beautiful to be able to look up.
51:28Draw us the eye.
51:29And then you get to see the full blue sky.
51:31And when you go upstairs, it's sort of reinforced by the high ceilings upstairs.
51:36Forever open to the elements, it really is an unexpected yet welcoming oasis that sets the tone downstairs for an office, hangout and guest accommodation.
51:48Come on up.
51:49Great.
51:50And upstairs, this.
51:53And here we are.
51:55Oh, I just want to step into all of this light just flooding in here.
52:00You found the skyline and dropped it right into this space.
52:04Magic.
52:05It actually feels bigger than what it previously was.
52:08Yeah, I think so.
52:09And I like the way it helps to organise the floor plan.
52:11It's not just one big kind of universal space where everything floats, you know, a little bit uncomfortably.
52:16Got a nice little nook there for your study.
52:18Nice, slightly larger, comfortable zone over there for the telly.
52:22You find your happy place.
52:24Yes.
52:25Each time you move around.
52:26That's right.
52:27Of course, the elephant in the room, it happens to be a gigantic gold bar lying there at your kitchen bench.
52:34Look at this thing.
52:35That is the wow factor.
52:36Wow.
52:37It sure is.
52:39Don't touch it.
52:40No?
52:41Unless you're going to clean it.
52:43So what is the rule?
52:44I mean, it is so precious.
52:46It's definitely not a material for someone who wants it pristine.
52:50Right.
52:51Because, like, you sort of touch it, you get the finger marks.
52:54Yeah.
52:55And, but that's okay for us.
52:56Let's let it tell its story.
52:58Although when it first went in, we did go, is it a bit too big?
53:03You sort of go, it's three metres and...
53:06It's committed.
53:07It is committed.
53:08But actually, we really love it.
53:09Yeah.
53:10No surprise, the warm chocolate box vibes spread beyond the kitchen, adding a feeling of homeliness and character to the living space.
53:19And then there's the loft upstairs.
53:21Yes, there is.
53:22Yeah.
53:23Shall we go up?
53:24Yeah.
53:25The sense of openness continues upstairs, to the mezzanine.
53:28And into the treehouse.
53:29Oh, great.
53:30Paul and Isabelle's bedroom, the elaborately wallpapered bathroom.
53:35But come on out here.
53:36Oh, out to the skyline of Melbourne.
53:38Yeah.
53:39Then there's the deck, with that stargazing outdoor bathtub.
53:44Oh, great.
53:45Oh, I love this view from up here.
53:47This is brilliant.
53:52It's a pretty spectacular outcome.
53:53You've got to be feeling pretty happy right now, yeah?
53:55Yeah.
53:56Yeah, very.
53:57Yeah.
53:58The process itself though, how did that go?
53:59We didn't know what we were getting into, that's for sure.
54:01Uh-huh.
54:02Super stressful or just...
54:03Yeah, super stressful.
54:04Yeah.
54:05Towards the end.
54:06Okay.
54:07I think it was just the amount of decisions that sort of was coming at you.
54:09Relentless.
54:10Yeah.
54:11Almost like every day.
54:12Yeah.
54:13So, do this again?
54:14No.
54:15No.
54:16Oh, until the next one.
54:18So, timing then.
54:19Yeah.
54:20You set yourself, I think, a 12-month frame.
54:2212 months.
54:23I think.
54:2413 months.
54:25So, congratulations.
54:26That's quite an achievement, actually.
54:28Yeah.
54:29In this particular kind of building climate.
54:30You needed to get it done on time, because you were living with two potentially destructive
54:34cats.
54:35Yes.
54:36How are they enjoying the place?
54:37They love it.
54:38Yeah?
54:39They love the space, and they love the heated floors up here.
54:42Oh, yeah.
54:43And on the budget, you had one and a half million in mind.
54:46Yeah.
54:47How'd you go?
54:48We were pretty smack bang on, maybe a tad over.
54:50Two percent.
54:51Two percent.
54:52Fantastic.
54:53Yeah.
54:54We were happy with that.
54:55What's the secret?
54:56Well, her secret was pretty simple.
54:57If a cost goes up, another cost goes down.
55:00Okay.
55:01If a cost gets introduced, a cost gets taken away.
55:04Okay.
55:05Well, I mean, yeah, that's pretty straightforward, really, isn't it?
55:06Yeah.
55:07Well, I've been standing here.
55:08Great place.
55:09And, of course, you'll get the fireworks.
55:11Yes.
55:12At New Year's.
55:13That was the intention.
55:14New Year's.
55:15Right here, holding a glass of champagne.
55:16Bravo.
55:17Well done.
55:21Thank you, everyone for just coming in.
55:23Champagne all round, I think.
55:26It looks like they're right.
55:27On time, on budget.
55:29I'm just looking forward to seeing some fish in the pond.
55:32Yeah.
55:33And even more importantly, Isabelle and Paul have achieved what they set out to do.
55:38A little bit of bling, a lot of light, and a huge injection of character.
55:45Well, thank you for partaking.
55:48Thank you for coming.
55:49Cheers.
55:50Cheers.
55:51Whatever budget was left over, I think we just drank it.
56:03What Paul and Isabelle have created here has been a delicate dance indeed.
56:10They've taken the old hat factory and given it a huge injection of warmth and personality
56:16and purpose without losing any of that spacious, cool industrial vibe.
56:20It's the perfect balance.
56:22Just don't worry about your fingerprints on the kitchen island bench.
56:25Cheers.
56:26We got to the end.
56:27We did.
56:28We can sleep in tomorrow.
56:42Good work, babe.
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