While the trend for bedrooms in general is to go for restful colours and relaxing themes, the space in this apartment is soft and all about comfort, but bright, leaning towards the eastern light that streams into the room from the floor to ceiling glass. Celebrating the morning light, the walls are papered in a sunny geometric pattern. Behind a slim pelmet are tucked roller blinds for the hottest rays, but also hung behind the pelmet are floaty, shadowy curtains, lightly lined and adding a dreamy element from which to pass to the balcony of stunning views beyond. A pretty scallop-edged rug on the floor, a framed series of delicate antique batik fabrics in crisp white frames and the master suite is no cookie cutter space you could swap out with another so easily. For herein lies the client’s personality in every detail.

Kitchen Renovation

A colorful living room and art wall

What was the previous Master Suite now houses a custom built kitchen. Featuring the darkest blue cabinetry and contrasting subway tiles in rich emerald hues, an industrial feel was introduced by adding leather pendant lighting along with complementary bar stools. A rugged concrete finish benchtop provided an industrial feel to this stylish kitchen

Dulux colours: Edvard, Southern Alps. Styling: Bree Leech. Photography: Lisa Cohen

We created more of the outdoor connection with a feature wallpaper and brought more aqua green refinished 1940 dining table. The Perspex Igloo chairs allowed more visibility into the outdoors.

American ash laundry Project in conjunction with Arthouse Architects and Ferguson Contracting. Photos by Ana Galloway.

American ash kitchen with handcrafted finger box joints Project in conjunction with Arthouse Architects and Ferguson Contracting. Photos by Ana Galloway.

Jenifer McNeil Baker