So I feel like this house is a bit of a kinder surprise you do rock up to the front you're
greeted by this black facade and as you walk through the door you hit with this
beautiful opulent marble the cathedral ceilings then it is a bit of a surprise.
I'm Adrian I'm the director of Surface Gallery and
the creative director of Aldini and this is my home The Emily.
So The Emily is located in Rozelle which is an inner-west suburb about
five minutes from the city right next to Balmain.
So when you get to the front door on your left-hand side you've got the master bedroom
there with an ensuite and then opposite that is a powder room for guests to use when they
come over as you walk through the hallway you then met with the kitchen which is the
hub of the home and then on the left-hand side you've got the sort of formal dining area and
living area all together which looks out onto an internal courtyard from the courtyard inside
up the stairs there's two other spare bedrooms and another bathroom up there.
Look the layout of the home previously didn't hugely impact the design we really more or less
just wanted to keep the cathedral ceilings that was the most important part of the brief we just
wanted to ensure that we maximized as much as we could on the small land parcel that we had.
My name is Rony Isaac director of CAASI Projects and I was the builder of the project at 7 Emily
Street Rozelle so originally Adrian came to me with a concept design to turn this small
space into a beautiful three-bedroom livable space. I've known Rony for years and I think
our friendship did influence how well this property came together I think it's really
important to have that sense of teamwork having people motivated to produce a really good end
result is super important and you're never going to have that on your own you need a team to make
things come together and that's a really big part of why this project was so successful.
So being in the supply industry of natural products I thought it was really important
that we had elements in different areas of different materials that sort of play with
each other in a nice organic way so we did focus a lot on using a lot of organic shapes
the bamboo being one in particular which we've
used in a bathroom downstairs we've also used it in the kitchen island
and you'll notice at the front of the property on the exterior battons are also in the same profile
So we also had a real emphasis on natural stone so we used terrazzo, marble and granite.
I've used natural stone on a lot of our projects as all high-end projects require natural stone for
shapes curves cutting book matching and it always achieves the level of quality clients require.
I think it's really important when you're doing an architecturally designed home that it does have an
element of softness and by introducing curves it softens some of those hard edges so you'll
see lots of the hard lines with the steel doors and the pitch roof we used the bamboo
in the stone we've also curved off a beautiful wall above the fireplace in a Venetian plaster.
So we brought lots of natural light into this space through the use of
steel doors and windows we did actually use a lot of skylights
and we just wanted to ensure that the space felt as big as it possibly could.
The house does actually change a lot due to the light, so in the morning you'll get that
beautiful sun coming through the bedroom windows and then by the afternoon it's sort of streaming
through the courtyard doors it's hard to have a favourite part I mean I do like all of it I
think if I had to say one particular part I think it's definitely the kitchen this is like the real
hub of the home it's where I entertain most and we've literally integrated a bar so it's
everyone's go-to for pre or post drinks after a night out the most appealing part to me was
all the marble used and the level of joinery we achieved throughout the whole project.
I'm probably most proud of how refined the project feels it feels completely seamless
walking through to every space everything sort of integrates really well everything
just does feel like it's meant to be there it doesn't feel like it was just thrown in.