Entry and stair — the design · Irvine Street Selections

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Entry and stair — the design

The entry hall and stair from below, as designed on 30 September 2026: the tendered Ashton Light stone along the hall, the Corinthian front door, the steel-spine oak stair with frameless glass, and the garage door as a cavity slider in the stone wall.

The first five pictures are AI-enhanced images, not photographs. They start from a 3D model built to the working drawings (rev H, WD 09, WD 10, WD 44). The last picture is the model.

What is what:

Stone: Sandstone Ashton Light Irregular (in the tender, supply and install), dry-stacked look, as it comes (rust-coloured pieces included), on the hall's long wall and wrapping onto the front-door wall; laid onto the floorboards, no skirting.
Front door: 900 wide, 2400 high (not widened: VO5, 4 Nov), about four wide vertical boards, stained to match the Headed Gum; the door is chosen at the Urban Door & Hardware appointment; (custom), long matte black pull. Stain to match the Headed Gum cladding on Dwelling 2's front (asked 12 Oct; these pictures were made before that).
Garage door: 870, solid-core cavity slider in the stone wall, painted to match the stone, flush pull.
End wall: plain, with a tall narrow artwork (~500 × 1500).
Lighting: a pair of Buster+Punch Exhaust surface downlights (graphite, brass tip) 250 off the stone near the door; two recessed downlights towards the end; separate switching.
Stair: steel mono-spine, natural oak treads (stained-to-match also being priced), frameless glass on round black pins, black handrail; opal-globe cascade pendant in the stairwell.
Floor: the laminate from upstairs, Solomons Cedar Mist.

Floorboards in this room (John, 8 Oct 2026). The pictures show the laminate we shortlisted, Solomons Elements Hydro in Cedar Mist DR6616, 1515 × 237 mm. Harriett has suggested the tendered engineered timber instead; that is not yet decided. Whichever is chosen, the boards here must be long (about 1.5 m or longer), in a similar colour, and must look like floorboards: a fine bevelled groove between planks. The question is asked once, under Flooring in 00a.

To confirm or price

The stone is in the tender: Sandstone Ashton Light Irregular, supply and install. We'd like it on the entry's long wall opposite the stair, wrapping onto the front-door wall round and over the door. Lit by a pair of Buster+Punch Exhaust surface downlights (graphite with brass detail), offset, ~430 apart and 250 off the stone, near the front door (a grazer is asked about in the last question). Two recessed downlights towards the service-door end. Separate switching: the Exhaust pair (dimmable, and on a night-time sensor for late arrivals) and the downlights, on a clearly labelled two-gang switch inside the front door. Confirm, and whether the prepare-only option for John's stonemason is still worth pricing.
No skirting on the stone wall: lay the floorboards first, then clad the stone down onto them so it overlaps the floor's expansion gap. The stone runs from the front-door wall to the garage door.
Step-free door from the garage (870, in the stone wall at the hall's end): could it be a cavity slider, so no door swings against the stone? Can the Ashton Light veneer go over the cavity-slider pocket without cracking (a stiffer pocket frame, or fixing the stone to a separate sheet)? The door itself should be solid-core (not hollow-core), painted to match the stone (colour-matched to a piece of the Ashton Light, its pale warm grey base tone, so it recedes into the wall), on a heavy-duty cavity-slider track rated for its weight, with brush seals to the garage, an easy-grip flush pull and at least ~820 clear opening for step-free access. Any garage-to-house requirements that rule a slider out?
End wall of the hall (plain, ~1.2 m wide, the first thing seen from the front door): a large artwork, with a downlight positioned to wash it.
Front door: Corinthian Elem A1 (vertical planks, white oak veneer), stained and sealed, not raw timber; 920 wide. We'd like it taller than the standard 2040 (made to order up to 2700): price 2400 high, with a slim matte black pull handle. Note: at the meeting of 21 May 2026 Mastacon advised leaving the entry doors as they are. Is a taller door still possible as a priced option, or does it stay standard? Update, 25 Oct 2026: John would like each front door as tall and as wide as possible: please price the largest the Elem range and the opening allow (Corinthian make it to order up to 2700 high), and tell us the height and width that gives. Update, 12 Oct 2026: Dwelling 2's front is now aluminium cladding in Headed Gum (section 09b). Please stain all three front doors to match the Headed Gum as closely as possible, and show us a stained sample beside the cladding before the doors are finished. Update, 4 Nov 2026 (VO5): the front door is not being widened or made taller: it stays the documented 900 leaf, 2400 high. The door itself (about four wide vertical boards, stained to match the Headed Gum) is chosen at the Urban Door & Hardware appointment, with Harriett bringing the Headed Gum sample. The tender's "3 coats satin enamel to front door" becomes a stain finish.
The wall build-up eats into a 1.2 m entry — how much width do the framing and the stone take?
The inspiration pictures (section 11) are lit by a floor or wall grazer. Confirm the wiring goes in for one.

AI-enhanced · 1 of 5From the porch through the open front door: stone on the left, the stair on the right, the tall artwork on the end wall

AI-enhanced · 2 of 5Just inside, looking up the stair: natural oak treads on the black spine, glass on black pins, the cascade pendant in the stairwell

AI-enhanced · 3 of 5Towards the end of the hall: the garage door as a flush cavity slider in the stone wall, painted to match the stone; the corridor to the bedrooms on the right

AI-enhanced · 4 of 5Back to the front door, open: the stone wraps onto the door wall; a pair of Buster+Punch Exhaust lights washes the stone

AI-enhanced · 5 of 5Back to the front door, closed: a 900 × 2400 timber door with vertical boards, stained and sealed. The final door (about four wide boards, stained to match the Headed Gum) is chosen at the Urban Door & Hardware appointment

3D model · to scaleThe inside view straight from the 3D model. Trust this one for proportions