LITTLE PINKY HOUSE
YARRAVILLE
photograph | Tatjana Plitt
LITTLE PINKY HOUSE
Little Pinky House is a major alteration and extension – on a modest scale - of a 100 year old weatherboard cottage just outside the blast radius of Coode Island.
Our challenge was to convert and update a tired, traditional weatherboard family house into a 2-household “share house” for a mother and daughter who love vibrant colour, house plants, vintage art and furniture, and their 2 dogs.
Once joyless landlocked rooms have been liberated by a new courtyard garden in the heart of the house. New shared living, dining + kitchen spaces pivot around this "garden room" and enjoy bright, sunny outlook and lovely Jacaranda views all year round.
Every inch of space on this small site - indoors and out - is precious. The resulting house is compact but airy, filled with sun and colour, and exploits the best of a narrow site in the heart of industrial Melbourne.
THIS HOUSE IS FOR
👸 + 👧 + 🐕 + 🐕
BEFORE | Photograph | OOF! architecture
DESIGN TEAM:
Architecture + Interiors: OOF architecture | Fooi-Ling Khoo + Jack Wilkinson
Engineer: PD Structures
Building Surveyor: Grimbos Building Surveyors
Energy Rater: Flying Yellow
CONSTRUCTION TEAM:
Builder | CBI - Anthony Adams
Windows and Doors | Aspect Windows
Joiner | Luna Joinery
ARTICLES ABOUT LITTLE PINKY HOUSE:
Lunchbox Architect | A Multi-generational Sharehouse
Dwell | A Mother and Daughter Share an Expanded Weatherboard Cottage
Urdesign Magazine | Milan | Little Pinky House: A Masterpiece of Transformation
Co-Architecture | Little Pinky House
