The home has a partial Raumplan which places vestibule, office, lounge on the ground floor and dining and kitchen and bedrooms and bathrooms on an upper level. The house employs floor to ceiling fenestration in its lounge framing dramatic 180 degree views from an elevated position on top of a hill crest. An elevated dining level looks down onto the lounge with inbuilt seating placed three steps lower then dining level.  A built-in cabinet separates the dining level from the lounge level. Lounge looking from dining level down to lounge and out toward north east windows. Functional spaces are delineated by finely mitred cubic vertical and horizontal pillaring. Cupboards formed from the backs of the built-in seating niche in the lower lounge offer storage behind sliding glass panels. Materials: Finely mitred and book matched wooden panelling abutting fibrous white plaster and local bricks. Built in furniture surfaced with inlayed Formica joined by Native Rimu wood and edged by 1cm wood trim.
Mr I.Bing
Kulka Foundation