A Federation home, refreshed for modern living without losing the bones.
** A sympathetic alteration and addition to a Wagga Federation home · original front rooms retained and restored, with a contemporary rear extension that opens to the garden. **
** The house had good bones · high ceilings, generous front rooms, intact joinery and fireplace surrounds. What it didn't have was a working family layout. The kitchen sat in the wrong place, the back of the house was a series of patched additions, and the garden was barely connected to the living spaces. **
** Our brief was clear. Keep the front of the house as a piece of Wagga's residential heritage. Pull the rear apart and start again with a contemporary family living area, a new kitchen-living-dining sequence and a garden room that actually engages the yard. **
** The contemporary extension is detailed to step back from the original ridge and read as a clearly new addition · not a pastiche. Materially, it borrows colour and weight from the original, but the joints, the proportions and the glazing are all unmistakably current. **
** The completed home was profiled in a recent Wagga real-estate campaign and sold above expectation in 2024. **