Whereas embracing its mid-century roots, Wahroonga Home leans away from the trimmings of domesticity: even in functionally demanding areas just like the kitchen and loos, the house’s task-focused areas have playful, animated designs. Sydney inside design studio Tom Mark Henry explores high-contrast color palettes, richly textured finishes and formal expressiveness to create areas extra akin to a boutique lodge than a home retreat.
The native bushland surrounding Wahroonga Home knowledgeable a color palette of greens, golds and browns with finishes hewn from nature. Clay and timber extensively characteristic, with tumbled terracotta tiles making a ground that’s tender and funky underfoot. Deep ochres emerge in walnut timber veneer joinery and burgundy trims. Such references to the colors of the Australian panorama give the inside a tonal richness that’s acquainted and uplifting.
The kitchen and the loos entertain the thought of curating a collection of “objects” that take the type of useful components. Within the kitchen, for example, a walnut timber storage unit sits beside emerald kitchen cabinetry. The joinery unit is used as a storage cabinet, however its playful kind and contrasting end give it the looks of a discovered object. The bed room door echoes this gesture with arched golden glass, including to the contrasting palette of jewelled tones. Additional, the monolithic, earthen type of the kitchen island bench creates an anchor for gatherings, and its tiled floor proves an irresistibly tactile centrepiece.
Tile-topped surfaces lengthen into the lavatory, the place deep greens carry the color of the forest inside. Mushy blush pinks add heat, as does the gilded end of brass pull handles. Within the ensuite, a concrete basin in color ‘Terracotta’ invitations contact and provides the area a focus. Tiled partitions in eucalyptus inexperienced mirror the color of gum bushes, whereas terrazzo recollects a cloth that has robust roots in twentieth-century structure.
The repetition of arches and curves units up an exquisite sense of distinction between the inflexible strains of modernism and the softer, extra relaxed types of this up to date refurbishment. Color additionally helps to impart a way of contradiction: unique trusses and ceilings are painted white to keep up visible distinction with the daring finishes of the brand new components. The result’s that at Wahroonga Home, the minimalist tendencies of mid-century design are revered whereas up to date elaborations showcase the dexterity of the designer.
Merchandise and supplies
- Kitchen partitions
- Dulux ‘Truthful Bianca’ paint end
- Kitchen flooring
- Collect Co. Malina terracotta tiles
- Kitchen joinery
- 2PAC joinery in Dulux ‘Deep Mooring’; Glass splashback with paint end in Dulux ‘Spiced Nutmeg’; customized island in Artedomus Vixel glass mosaic tiles
- Kitchen sinks and tapware
- Oliveri Skilled Sequence single bowl undermount sink from Profitable Home equipment; Brodware Metropolis Stik pull-out kitchen mixer in ‘Brushed Chrome’
- Home equipment
- Miele pyrolytic 60 cm built-in oven from Profitable Home equipment; Fisher and Paykel pure fuel cooktop
- Different
- Unique triangular structural beams
- Toilet partitions
- Dulux ‘Pale Inexperienced Tea’ and ‘Frontier Fort’ paint finishes; Newport gloss mini subway wall tile in ‘Jade Inexperienced’ from Tile Cloud; glazed porcelain wall tile in ‘Emerald Inexperienced’ from Floor Gallery
- Toilet flooring
- Italian terrazzo tile from Floor Gallery
- Toilet joinery
- Vixel glass mosaic tiles from Artedomus; 2PAC joinery in Dulux ‘Deep Mooring’ and ‘Frontier Fort’; Auhaus Radius deal with in ‘Brushed Brass’
- Toilet lighting
- Glo-Ball wall gentle from Euroluce
- Toilet tapware and fittings
- Brodware Metropolis Stik tapware in ‘Brushed Chrome’
- Toilet sanitaryware
- Kaldewei Centro Duo 2 freestanding tub from Candana; Concrete Nation Halo concrete basin in ‘Purple Iron’
Credit
- Mission
- Wahroonga Home
- Designer
- TomMarkHenry
Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Mission Group
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Cushla McFadden, Kelly Doyle, Emma Say
- Consultants
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Architect and builder (home)
Quantum Constructed
Builder (inside)
proprietor builder
Joinery
All Good Kitchens
- Website Particulars
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Location
Wahroonga,Sydney,
NSW,
Australia
Website sort
Suburban
- Mission Particulars
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Standing
Constructed
Completion date
2020
Class
Residential
Sort
New homes
Supply
Challenge
Homes: Kitchens + Loos, June 2021