{"id":294356,"date":"2025-11-19T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294356\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:36:18","slug":"builder-unveils-spectacular-brisbane-home-designed-to-challenge-tear-down-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294356\/","title":{"rendered":"Builder unveils spectacular Brisbane home designed to challenge tear-down culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Baker in his newly renovated house in Camp Hill. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen<\/p>\n

Michael Baker and wife Sasha wanted to push the boundaries when it came to designing and building their dream home <\/a>in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

The couple, who has three adult children, recently completed a mammoth renovation on their Camp Hill house after purchasing the original property in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Bowen House at 88 Waverly Rd, Camp Hill.<\/p>\n

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Bowen House has an indoor-outdoor flow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe liked the weatherboard and terracotta look to properties and were also very keen to preserve the architecture of the streets in Brisbane,\u201d said Mr Baker, a builder who runs MR Baker Design & Renovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to demonstrate architecturally what could be done with that sort of property.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like how a lot of homes are just being torn down, and having a background in architecture before becoming a builder, I saw an opportunity to showcase a new type of architecture in Brisbane.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael Baker in his Camp Hill house. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen<\/p>\n

The British Colonial-inspired home, now on the market with Place Woolloongabba\u2019s James Curtain<\/a>, includes five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a string of luxury features from a 280-bottle wine cellar to a showstopper pool and outdoor kitchen.<\/p>\n

Mr Baker described the finished home as \u201cspectacular\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe basically kept the existing structure, lifted it up, build underneath and extended out the back,\u201d Mr Baker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s four times as big as the original footprint.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost people think we got rid of the house but it\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Designed for multi-generational living, the home features several different living zones with meticulous attention to detail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to build it so someone of our age could live here forever,\u201d Mr Baker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could be upstairs and have the master suit and as you age, because we built another master suit downstairs, you could live down there and lock off upstairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr you could have family upstairs and guests or grandparents or an au pair downstairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr Baker said the Brisbane market was struggling to keep pace with buyer demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback you get is that housing is in very short supply and in particular the prestige market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve got a good block and good location, it should be commanding a premium.<\/p>\n

\u201cI imagine a number of people don\u2019t want to go through the hassle of dealing with architecture, town planners, certification and that sort of stuff and want a beautiful turnkey property to just walk into.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could be sitting here in the pool by Christmas time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expressions of interest close December 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Baker in his newly renovated house in Camp Hill. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Michael Baker and wife Sasha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-294356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}