McCormacks Bay House Has Movable Wall

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28529, 7 March 1958, Page 20

McCormacks Bay House Has Movable Wall

This photographer’s home-in Gienstrae street, McCormacks Bay, is 80ft long and 24ft wide. It has three bedrooms, living room, office and darkroom. The walls are block veneer and

cedar, the roof is iron. The construction was a one-man job with the owner, Mr Frank McGregor, assisting. It has a solid concrete floor and there is a carport at the rear under the main roof. The architects were Trengrove, Trengrove and Mashall and the builder was Keith Fasfield

Features of this house are the way in which the cedar wall is carried through the outside wall from the concrete patio into the 22ft by 18ft living room. (Right) A 25ft Oregon beam supports the centre of the sloping roof and ceiling and rests in the centre on the pillar at the end of the concrete block dividing wall. The flue from the space heater passes through a linen cupboard at the back of this wall and vents in the cupboard allow warm air to drift into the sleeping quarters and passageway at the rear of the picture.

The olive green and crocus yellow chequered wall in the children’s bedroom (below) is movable. The arrangement of doors and windows allow it to be pushed either way to provide for the needs of a growing family. The recesses make valuable book room. The ceiling is grey, the window wall crocus yellow, and the bedspread is red.