Monk®

Project 01 — Residential

Mount Waverley Home.

Mount Waverley, Victoria — 37.8770° S, 145.1290° E

Completed 2019

Mount Waverley home
Mount Waverley Home — Melbourne, 2019
Location
Mount Waverley, VIC
Year
2019
Status
Completed
Typology
Residential
Photography
Artizen Homes
Focus
A room for the mind

The brief

A family home in Melbourne’s east — with one room that belongs to no function. Like most family homes, this one was planned around the body: places to sleep, cook, wash and gather. The difference is a single deliberate addition — a quiet room that asks nothing of the people who enter it.

No screen, no schedule, no storage to tidy. Just proportion, soft light and a door that closes. A place for a parent to breathe between obligations, for a teenager to decompress after school, for anyone in the house to simply do nothing for a while.

The room did not add luxury to the home. It added capacity — the mental kind.

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“Mental wellbeing isn’t a feature you add with a candle or a corner cushion. It deserves its own place.” Monk — What we believe
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