There’s no such thing as a ‘typical day’ for InForm and Pleysier Perkins. Every project presents a unique set of challenges, embraced collectively on the building site and in the meeting room. Here we share some of these daily interactions, peeking inside the worlds of both builder and architect.

Set amongst the sand dunes adjacent to national parkland in Blairgowrie some 600 metres beyond the roaring swell of the ocean lies Montfort House.

On a narrow sloping site, this house maximises expansive bay views. Extensive glazing on both levels addresses the bay and is book-ended by two-storey masonry walls.

Before one even brushes up against the impressive, large timber door that leads you into Brighton East 2, it’s already clear that you’ve arrived in a place of sanctuary. While the centrepiece of this four-bed home is the dramatic double height entry hall, the luscious garden path that leads you there is just as captivating. It gives a holiday feeling and is the first nod to the emphasis on the home’s relationship with nature.

In life, simplicity is experienced in moments and colours and smells and sounds and memories and places. In a home, simplicity is found both in the expected and the unexpected.

For Christine and Peter Angelini, waking up in the home where they live with their children Selena, Romeo, and Louis, still brings so much joy some three years after moving in. And while the chaos of a young family is sure to bring more life and less calm to their home, there is something immediately soothing about entering their softly hued retreat.

While visiting newly completed homes is undoubtedly one of the most inspiring and rewarding components of what we do, the one thing that surpasses it is revisiting a house that’s been lived in; a home that’s come to life in the years since our team painstakingly created and worked through every last detail.

Maggie and Tony look very at home as we arrive. Their afternoon plans for us include building a fire in the outdoor pit, followed by a guided tour of the tepee that has been set up in the garden. Even though it has been decorated with as much care and style as the rest of the home, Maggie is yet to convince Tony to sleep in there; ‘I’m pretty happy in the house’, he says, laughing.

Seen through the lens of acclaimed Melbourne-based portrait, lifestyle, travel and fine-art photographer Kate Ballis, an InForm building site is transformed into an intriguing, abstract landscape. A photographic essay that combines the interplay of pattern and light, collision of colour and form and contrasting texture and materiality.

InForm’s special sense of familial connection is often mentioned by our clients. From inside the office, where many of our full-time staff have been employees for over a decade, to the family businesses that have been on our sites for 20 years, this sense of kinship permeates all aspects of the business.

From the valley of a cul-de-sac, Camberwell 2 emerges, subtle in material but imposing in form. A double-height entry is the first nod to the sense of loft and sculpture that awaits in the interior and the experience of arriving home still takes its inhabitants Belinda and Tristan’s breath away.

Behind the veil of the palm trees that existed long before the home was a sketch on yellowtrace, Brighton East 4 emerges as a fresh piece of architecture that reflects the family that it was created for.

A great relationship between architect and builder is key to a successful outcome. We often discuss the healthy tension that exists between InForm and Pleysier Perkins arising from the contrasting philosophies of art versus science.

Thanks to the team at Amazing Architecture for featuring Brighton 8 by InForm.