A two-storey family home in the Adelaide south, drawn in the Hamptons idiom and quietened for our coastal light. Soft weatherboard above a rendered base; sage-mint joinery, oak floors and aged brass within.
| Location | Warradale, South Australia |
| Typology | Two-storey custom family home |
| Year Completed | Built by Normus 2025 |
| Design Language | Hamptons reimagined for the Adelaide south |
| Materials | Weatherboard · render · oak · aged brass · sage-mint accents |
| Tile & Stone | Supplied by Cerbis Ceramics, in partnership with Normus Homes |
| Builder | Normus Homes |
Warradale began with an idea that sounds simpler than it is, a Hamptons home, for a young Adelaide family, that does not feel imported.
The Hamptons language has a clear vocabulary, gables held in symmetry, broad weatherboard, classical detailing, a soft palette of off-whites and ocean greens. The risk, always, is that the home reads as a costume worn on the wrong street.
Our answer was restraint. We held the symmetry, the gables and the portico, the bones of the style. We let go of the rest. The boards are slightly wider, painted in a warmer white that reads kindly under our flat Adelaide sun. The roofline is pitched but quietened. There are no shutters, no decorative flourishes, only proportion, plantings and shadow.
Inside, the brief asked for warmth without weight. Oak runs underfoot through the whole ground floor. Joinery is Shaker in profile but stops short of period reproduction, a cream body, a flat panel, brass cup pulls. The kitchen splashback is a dark, hand-laid mosaic, the single deeper note that lets the rest of the room breathe.
The detail we keep returning to is the front door. Sage-mint, vertical boards, a single oak disc for a handle. It is the one moment in the home that asks to be touched, and it is, we think, the one moment that explains the whole house.
The ensuite carries the same logic. An oval mirror, brushed nickel, an oak veneer floating vanity. Square tile underfoot with the smallest possible joint. Light from a high window, enough to bathe in, not enough to perform under.
From the Designer’s Notes
Warradale was designed for a young family, two children, a long horizon, and a clear love of the Hamptons idiom that they wanted to bring home without it feeling borrowed.
What they asked for, in the end, was a home that would carry them through their twenties, their thirties, and the long middle. A home that would be soft on a Sunday morning and ready for a houseful on a Saturday night. We think we drew that home.
The owners, Warradale
Step closer. Warradale is held together by quieter passages, the cream of a cabinet face, the soft brass of a tap, the way an oak floorboard meets a square tile under a wall of bright morning.
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