Hope Island, Gold Coast
Lift Shop installed an A Series home lift with sliding doors in a Hope Island waterfront home on the Gold Coast. It serves two levels and sits in the entry hall, where bronze toned doors suit the polished floor, the raw concrete ceiling and the view straight through to the water.
This is a home built around one long sightline. From the front door the hall runs the full length of the house to the river. The lift had to join that view without interrupting it.
Sliding doors suit a house like this. They open flat against the wall, so nothing swings into the hall and nothing blocks the line of sight to the water. The doors stay clean and quiet in the background while the architecture does the talking.
The lift sits just inside the entry, beside a feature staircase. A guest can take the stair. An owner with shopping, a cane or a sleeping child can take the lift. Both routes meet at the same landing.
The house is built from honest materials: polished concrete floors, timber lined ceilings, pale stone and big sliding glass walls. A bronze toned landing door belongs in that palette. It picks up the warm timber overhead and the lit stone in the kitchen, and it stays calm against the white walls.
From the kitchen, the bedroom and the pool terrace, the water is always in view. The lift keeps every one of those spaces within easy reach.
A house of this scale has distance in every direction. Two levels and a long floor plate mean walking from one end of the home to the other, and then climbing. A lift removes the climb and keeps the home usable for every guest and every year.
It also looks planned rather than added. The doors line up with the hall, the lighting and the staircase, so the lift reads as part of the architecture.
Sliding doors open flat against the wall, so the long entry hall stays clear.
Bronze toned doors sit comfortably with timber, stone and polished concrete.
One lift connects both levels, from the entry to the bedrooms and the water views.
Planning a waterfront home on the Gold Coast? Visit our Brisbane showroom to see the A Series in person, and read the home lift cost guide. More homes like this one are in our sliding door home lift gallery.
Prices move. Yours will not. Once you pay your first deposit, your price holds for 12 months.
Or talk it through with a Lift Shop consultant on 1800 440 714
