Maddison
Recognition
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Australian Interior Design Awards 2024
Residential Design
Short List (pending) 2024
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38th Dulux Colour Awards
Residential Interior
Finalist (Pending) 2024
A city-fringe apartment transformed by Studio Johnston with deft spatial interventions and a
Mediterranean palette, artfully applied.
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This Sydney apartment is home to Studio Johnston Head of Interiors and Project Director, Stefania Reynolds, her husband and their two young children.
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Deleting an original column in the kitchen opened the spaces up and unlocked the project allowing the main space to be organised into seamless, overlapping zones, like a Venn diagram of how the home is occupied.
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Two tactical interventions were devised to make the space work harder. The galley kitchen has been closed at one end, its adjoining dining room converted to a separate home office. At the edge of this office, a large inbuilt joinery unit was constructed for storage. It conceals glass and timber sliding doors screening the office from the new dining zone, now oriented towards the courtyard, with a custom-designed banquette in timber and Venetian plaster and table in crown-cut oak with colourful, mismatched legs.
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Architectural joinery plays with radial curves and oblique angles to soften the apartment’s blunt 1980s geometry. The dining banquette is durable and plush with saddle tan leather seating and mustard corduroy velvet cushions. Sliding glass doors to the courtyard are dressed with lush linen curtains in two tones of terracotta.
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- Architecture & Interiors Studio Johnston
- Builder Dotkom Carpentry
- Landscape Westscape Designs
- Photography Anson Smart & Brett Boardman
- Stylist Kirsten Bookallil