Below, architect Dingle Price describes the House for a Painter project, with its original layout including a large painting studio, which has since been adapted to a voluminous living space:

"Attracted by the large volume and excellent natural light, the artist and his wife lived and worked in this warehouse building in an ad-hoc manner for some years, before the arrival of their first child necessitated a more formal inhabitation. Dingle Price proposed the insertion of a two-storey house with a front façade overlooking and animating the studio space which attains the character of a small piazza or garden, a feeling further enhanced by the large landscape paintings in progress.

The design draws on the symmetrical character of the existing building to provide a series of interconnected rooms of varied scale and proportion. The existing interior consisted principally of white plastered walls, and both unfinished and white painted pine floorboards. Rather than introducing new materials, we chose to adopt and extend the use of this palette - the staircase and cabinetry are constructed from southern yellow pine planks and the elevation of the residence is partially clad in painted pine boards of a matching width to the floorboards.

Whilst the residence can be entirely or partially closed off from the studio when necessary, opening the doors and shutters reveals scenic views across the internal landscape."