The FUN House on Point Lonsdale, Bellarine Peninsula Home, Photos, Architecture Project, Images
The FUN House on Point Lonsdale, Victoria
Australian Residential Development – design by Nine Muses Design
9 Dec 2019
The FUN House
Architects: Nine Muses Design
Location: Point Lonsdale, Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
Small footprint, small budget, BIG impact!

Keen to build a vibrant, compact and affordable home in the tightly held seaside enclave of Point Lonsdale, a young family saw potential in a vacant battle-axe block and engaged Nine Muses Design to help bring their vision to life.

The FUN House is home to Emma and Louis, their two energetic young sons and much-loved dog Pip. With creative backgrounds in furniture design and videography, it was never going to be an ?ordinary? house for Emma and Louis.
Architect, Jane Macrae explains, ?Pink?s song, ?House of Fun? provided the soundtrack for this gift of a project. Its not often that clients can’t be challenged enough! The budget, site constraints, clients? design acumen and their trust gave birth to a fun, collaborative and creative process. The result really reflects this and designing it never felt like it work. It was so much FUN!?

The site is located at the rear in a suburban subdivision with the desired northerly aspect facing to the street. The challenge was to maximise solar gains and garden area on a small site. The solution was three pavilions that tightly hug the rear and side boundaries ...