this apartment is located in the inner west of Sydney in a suburb called
Marrickville known by locals as the Warren because it's a sort of rabbit
warren of an area the apartment is in a three-story walk-up built in 1960 and
the unit is one of 18 in the building
this apartment is 49 square meters the client had a very clear understanding of
what they wanted they wanted to carry the same ambience that was in this place
already over to the renovation however he needed vast improvements to
functionality the client is certainly not interested in reductivism and he
will continue to accumulate things so ample storage was very very important we
removed a series of walls that divided the master bedroom from the rest of the
apartment and we shifted the sleeping space into what was the old bathroom the
old bathroom went into what was the old laundry and what was the master bedroom
became an art studio and a sleeping space for guests by removing the walls
we decided to insert a really large storage pod into the center of the unit
the new insertions were realized in mirror gold the reflective gold is really quite
dynamic and that it reflects the light and it amplifies the effect of all of
the trees and the plants that the client has dotted around the apartment
inserting the pod enabled us to demarcate spaces and distribute zones and
that pod contains all of his clothing general dump storage the laundry art
supplies and also a niche where he can create art we used black in the art
space niche it's quite reductive it doesn't detract from the effect of the
mirror gold it's much easier to keep clean with all of the mess related to
the art and there's some continuity because the front of the pod is Imagine
Italian black the sleeping nook is where the original bathroom was were
conducive to fit in a queen bed the gold panels make the sleeping nook feel like
a much larger space than it otherwise would the sleeping nook is elevated by
two steps so that we can store a pullout bed underneath so that on the other side
of the pod a bed can be pulled out for guests and the room can be shut off with
the use of a curtain that retracts from the pod
the soft light that emanates from the junction of storage pod in the wall
draws the eye through to the rear of the space the client has a desire to have
plants in every space within the apartment and that included in the
bathroom so we created a small soaker tub cum shower and then a secondary tub
if you like to house a garden we use the reflective white tile and a white shower
curtain to create a very light airy and bright space which is offset with the
polished gold tap where the kitchen has all of the functionality and amenity of
a regular kitchen however is completely concealed all of the appliances are
hidden because it was important that the kitchen be probably the most recessive
component within the design there's an under bench integrated fridge oven
dishwasher cooktop there are no overhead storage instead that space has been
reserved for heart to again help the kitchen blend into its environment
we decided to paint the walls in a semi-gloss rather than a flat paint and
the paint continues from the walls up to the ceiling
even with all of the decoration there's a calmness and a continuity to the space
because the tile pervades every space
this sort of building stock has great access to light and Tabriz and by
removing all of the partitioning in the apartment and starting the layout again
the spatial organization again we've unlocked a whole heap of new potential