Casa Warrandyte

North Warrandyte, Melbourne

Casa Warrandyte is a mud-brick house in North Warrandyte, inside Warrandyte State Park on the Yarra north-east of Melbourne, now let as accommodation and hired for retreats and shoots. The block was part of an alternative school in the 1940s and burnt in 1962. About a decade later Alistair Knox, a pioneer of modern mud-brick building in Victoria, designed a two-bedroom fishing cabin here, and an owner in the late 1990s added a bedroom, a separate artist's studio and the glazed conservatory, all with floor-to-ceiling double glazing to bring the bush inside. Stace Burt and Kenny Pomare bought it and moved in at the end of 2016, adding four large skylights and terrazzo floors, and The Design Files published their home in 2017. The house's own line for itself: "A modernist retreat immersed in bush, river and light."

The card is the sunroom at the entrance, the late-1990s addition and not Knox's cabin: a double-height grid of timber-framed glazing and sliding doors onto a deck with a wire balustrade, two cane armchairs under sheepskins, a green sofa, a Moroccan rug and a glass-topped table, a white sculpture by the doors and the bush right up to the glass. The same room appeared in The Design Files in 2017 with much of the same furniture, captioned as the sunroom used for reading and music: "We love the morning sun that beats through here, perfect for chilling to some tunes". This frame is from the house's own post of September 2025, photographed by Miranda Stokkel.

Casa Warrandyte

Casa Warrandyte is the house itself, a mud-brick retreat in North Warrandyte that takes bookings for stays, retreats, weddings and shoots; its original cabin was designed by Alistair Knox, and its glazed sunroom by a later owner in the late 1990s.

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The picture comes from this post on Instagram, with more in a second post.

Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.