My name is Anna Trefeley and I'm the interior designer of Boronia House.
We're located in Bellevue Hill, it is a area close to the harbour,
very green and leafy with often beautiful views and typically fairly expansive properties.
The entry is a full level above the street, the incline is emphasized with a portal which we
defined with strong colour. The front door similarly the same.
The first room is more of an entry kind of gallery space
that has a formal living space beyond that then opens onto a front balcony.
From this entry space, we turn left through the dining space into the kitchen.
The kitchen was a refurbishment, we applied walnut panelling to the front cupboard faces,
and it serves to really warm up with some of the existing Portuguese limestone,
the dark Portuguese limestone of the flooring and the concrete elements within the void.
We used a really light travertine for the benchtops.
The custom metal work was very important part of this project,
it frames and highlights the stair up to the void and aesthetically it is a balance.
Our clients were a beautiful couple with two young children and the brief was really
to inject a little bit of colour and soul and opportunity into this existing house.
A lot of our projects we like to include a lot of custom
pieces which we work with local artisans on.
We designed the staircase with coloscarpo in mind the floating concrete elements.
It was very fine craftsmanship that resulted in this very delicate and connected open balustrade.
As you ascend the staircase however and you rise up into a much lighter space, the idea of the
bedrooms was entirely different that the spaces should be more like a sanctuary, again connected
to the outdoors and the very leafy views beyond, however tonally very calm and very sanctuary-like.
We also wanted to really connect the landscape
with the rest of the living spaces of the ground floor and make sure that there was
a real succinct and connected flow between the internal spaces and the external spaces.
And we continued that into some of the external pieces of joinery such as the barbecue and the
seats as well as the staircase, the new staircase, and planter that leads up to the elevated pool.
Additionally, with the elevated pool, we have added a extended area of deck
with a landscaped edge which we collaborated with Miles Baldwin Landscape Designers.
I suppose the space has become more livable through the power of colour
and the way in which the materials and the colour have been able to warm up this space.
I suppose for our clients who were really young family, they just, they wanted to live
in a space that would make them feel uplifted and inject a little bit of fun into daily life.