Here’s a house with presence and purpose. The sprawling rural property, positioned to maximise sun and warmth, has four bedrooms in the main house, plus a two-bedroom self-contained flat. This gives the owners a stylish and comfortable family home, plus an income or a space for visiting friends of family. Clever. The 410sqm house is clad in Midland Brick veneer, used horizontally, vertically and stack-bonded for visual interest, plus there are Midland Designa Schist features. Ceramic shingle roof tiles complete the attractively composed picture. The builders had constructed houses for the owners before so, naturally, they were called in again.

Here, they’ve crafted a property with a floorplan that provides plenty of spaces for family time, get-togethers and quiet withdrawal with a book – inside and out. It helps that communal rooms, including an open-plan dining and living space with soaring ceilings, designer kitchen, brick fireplace and sliders that open to decking, face north. So, too, the separate lounge, outdoor room with timber ceiling and skylights, bedroom and main bedroom with dressing room and ensuite. The palette within is muted and organic, letting the rural surrounds, framed by windows and sliders, do the talking. You’ll still find definite colour, however, in art and bedroom feature walls in lavender and dusty pink. It’s a complete package, and a lovely one at that.