Darlinghurst

I’ve previously completed 4 renovations for the owners of this cutting edge apartment in Darlinghurst. My wonderful clients had previously leased this spacious 3 bedroom apartment out for near 8 years. Sporting breath taking 270 degree views over Sydney harbour.

Feeling that they’d love to move in and have a city pad, it needed emergency design “E.R”!
Having worked with me for over 20 years, my wonderful clients were pretty much open to anything! I believed the interior should just sit back and relax and let the view do most of the magic, as with any good film, there can only be one hero!..

So, for this project I suggested a pared back, simple approach. Let the view shine and the interiors should compliment. I guess some designers would have embraced the blue of the harbor waters or the green attempting to capture the foliage. Believe me it was tempting to go the usual route!

A very neutral palette with a grey green base really resonated especially for the furniture and fittings to the living and dining area.

My clients loved the idea.

The kitchen was replaced, but I felt the existing footprint worked exceptionally well. So I retained the basic floorplan.

The existing kitchen, whilst cutting edge design around 15 years ago was now tired and dark.
Balancing this out with white joinery seemed the perfect foil. It worked.

To give some understated detail, I designed a bespoke look with a simple flowing pattern that the joiner routed out to created a series of battens that ran in patterns across the joinery doors. Essentially I was paying homage to the hundreds of Deco buildings that are littered across the wide Sydney harbor vista. It gave the battening a modern, funky twist.