Maximising a tight site, this high-end build goes up for sea views and has a subtle two-degree slice off the northern face to provide garage access for car and boat. From the garage, a lift enables weekend supplies to be transported up to the living areas with ease. Upstairs, the kitchen, dining and lounge flow lengthwise out to an entertainer’s deck with frameless glass balustrade for unimpeded views and a louvred roof and side for weather protection.

In fact, the entire home has been built to minimise or maximise solar gain and is designed to reduce the impact of prevailing bad weather on outdoor living. Acoustics have been considered, too, with a concrete mid-floor minimising noise impact between levels. On the lower floor there are four bedrooms which are designed to be quiet with the use of discontinuous framing, noise-control insulation and solid-core doors. The main suite upstairs also enjoys these qualities, ensuring cool, restful sleep, with no annoying disturbance. The design also includes numerous sustainable features, such as a solar system, upgraded powdercoating to aluminium joinery, a recycled plastic landscaping product used for garden edging, composite decking and reuse of framing from the original home. Getting away from it all at the beach has never felt, or looked, better.