Apartments
Tight plans opened up by moving one wall, and storage engineered into a single continuous depth.
§ Homes
Residential
Houses that suit the people in them.
Apartments, villas, luxury residences and compact homes — designed around the rhythms of the household rather than a look.
§ 01
By home type
Villas
Large plans that have to stay coherent — one detail, one palette, running through every room.
Luxury residences
Fewer elements, each specified without compromise, and lighting on enough circuits to change the house four times an evening.
Compact homes
Under 1,200 sq ft, where nothing may exist that does not also store something. Harder than a villa, not easier.
§ 02
Room by room
01
Living rooms
One seating group, generously scaled, and a plan that lets the room be used by two people or twelve without rearranging it.
02
Bedrooms
Full-height joinery finished flush with the wall, blackout in a recessed pocket, and no ceiling light.
03
Dining spaces
Sized from the chair backs outward — 900 mm to a wall, 1,100 mm where somebody has to pass behind a seated guest.
04
Bathrooms
Falls and waterproofing set out before a single tile is chosen. The material is rarely the thing that fails.
05
Home offices
An actual room, or a defined workspace with a door, decent light and a wall behind you that looks acceptable on a call.
§ 03
Find your style
Which of these is your house?
Choose a direction to see what it means in practice. If none of them quite fits, that is normal — most finished projects sit between two.
Nothing that does not need to be there.
A restricted palette, concealed storage and a plan that reads in a single glance. Minimal interiors are unforgiving of clutter, which is either the point or the problem depending on the household.
- Restricted palette
- Concealed storage
- Flush detailing
Current, but not of a particular year.
Clean lines with enough contrast to hold a room together — a dark wall, a sculptural light, one strong material. The most adaptable of the styles we work in, and the easiest to live with over time.
- Considered contrast
- Mixed materials
- Sculptural lighting
Low, warm, and quietly made.
Japanese restraint with Scandinavian warmth. Low furniture, pale timber, paper-like textures and a genuine commitment to empty surfaces. It photographs simply and is surprisingly demanding to detail.
- Low furniture
- Pale timber
- Empty surfaces
Restraint, executed expensively.
Fewer elements, each one specified without compromise — book-matched stone, solid brass, deep upholstery. The discipline is knowing when to stop, because this style becomes a showroom very easily.
- Book-matched stone
- Solid metals
- Deep upholstery
Modern shapes, forgiving surfaces.
Contemporary planning with warm plaster, timber and textile doing the work that white paint does elsewhere. Our most-requested direction, and the one that ages best in a humid climate.
- Lime plaster
- Textile and timber
- Layered lighting
Proportion first, decoration second.
Panelled walls, considered mouldings and furniture with legs. Done well it is timeless; done carelessly it becomes pastiche. The difference is almost always in the proportions rather than the ornament.
- Wall panelling
- Considered mouldings
- Furniture on legs
Structure left visible on purpose.
Exposed services, hard floors and dark metalwork, softened by upholstery and warm light. It needs a building with something worth exposing — applied to a new-build apartment it reads as costume.
- Exposed services
- Dark metalwork
- Hard floors
