It's a very seamless feeling and I think it just does immediately make you feel relaxed,
calm and has a beautiful sort of zen-like feel.
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My name is Nina Maya I'm the director of Nina Maya Interiors,
this is our Pavilion house project and also my new home.
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Avalon is situated in Sydney's Northern beaches it's a stunning coastal town a
stones throw from the beach a beautiful place to live but also a wonderful holiday destination.
The brief for this home was to create a zen-like oasis retreat.
To come here and have that sense of feeling like you were on holiday, relaxation.
This house was set very far back on a thousand square meter block
and when you open up the doors you just sort of have this incredible
sense of space and land and privacy the outside world just disappears.
So the architecture of the home is a pavilion style and that's
what attracted us to the building in the first place structurally it was
sound it was a very clean layout which we loved the whole front facade is glass so
it lets the beautiful light in and a great connection between the indoors and outdoors.
Upon entering the home you have the kitchen and the dining room, the living
quarters and then behind all the bedrooms and bathrooms so it's a very clean simple layout.
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We wanted it to feel once you'd entered the
property and the grounds that you could be anywhere in the world.
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I wanted to capture that feeling you have when you step into a beautiful
hotel and you're just transported to another place
and the connection between indoor and outdoor was so vital I wanted you to feel even when
you were indoors that you were still very much connected to the beautiful garden and landscaping.
All the doors open up completely and stacked to the side so in summer there's just sort
of no transition between indoor and outdoors a completely seamless flow
you can hear the palms rustling you can hear the water feature
so it's a very interconnected feeling between the indoors and the outdoors.
We had a lot of fun with the landscape architecture, we excavated a large portion of the
front of the property to build an outdoor dining area so that's a beautiful space surrounded by
palm trees, white pebbles, a custom marble table a lovely spot to have lunch in the afternoon.
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We also created a fire pit area which is a lovely place to gather with friends and the
sort of biggest structural thing we did was build an outdoor spa bath so that's
a beautiful sort of bar area, vanity, freestanding, tiled double rain shower
so it sort of increases that feeling of a resort when you're lying by the pool.
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So the home is beautifully filled with light where you spend a lot of time putting in
strategically placed skylights in the lounge room there's a continual skylight that runs
seven meters across the length of the room and the way that the light plays through
that on the plastered wall throughout the day is just absolutely stunning.
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The
coffee table for example was hand carved out of a solid piece of marble it weighs 1.2 tons
we had to have an engineer reinforce the floor, two cranes to carry it in,
it's not going anywhere but it really lends a gravitas to the room it's absolutely stunning.
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I also love those very raw finishes and materials so the beautiful hand quality of the plaster,
the sculptural form of the marble but in terms of colours I mean even on the
lounge the partie boucle there is nothing that's high contrast
what it does is makes your eye relax and you feel very calm in the space.
So I wanted to have organic, rounded soft forms which can be seen in the kitchen,
island stools, which are sculpted out of solid timber, the beautiful curved marble
coffee table and the boucle lounges which have a very sort of channelled upholstery.
My favourite feature of the home is definitely the outdoor bathroom, I love lazy afternoons lying on
the pool bed and watching the curtains just softly billow in the wind the idea that you can have sort
of a fresh dip in the pool and then jump into a warm spa bath afterwards it just makes you realize
that you can create that sort of ease and sense of being on a holiday every day in your life.