00:09Tara is a building that was completed in 1920 in the art deco style. This apartment is located in
00:17Elizabeth Bay which is in very close proximity to the city and on the doorstep of this apartment is
00:23wonderful amenity, restaurants, cafes, everything that you could want with it at your fingertips
00:27basically. This apartment is a 30 square meter space. The layout exists primarily as it was.
00:39The client was very inspired by minimalist interior design and really wanted a very clean
00:45and crisp and contemporary product for the design of his space. Our idea was to shift the bulk of the
00:52apartment to the perimeter walls or to the outside walls to create a really large open and fluid
00:57space through the middle of the apartment. We embraced I guess the idea of studio living rather
01:03than create unnecessary or deliberate delineation or zoning within the space. Running along one length
01:10of wall beyond the kitchen is a function wall and it contains a four-seat sofa and it has a
01:17pull-out
01:17chaise. There is storage underneath and the bed is quite unique in that it folds down over the sofa
01:23when it comes time for sleeping. The function wall wraps almost the couch and the bed to make full use
01:31of the height and ensure that no space was left unused for storage where possible. For the design of the
01:38function wall we wanted something very robust which is why we decided to clad it entirely in metal. It's a
01:44very very contemporary look and feel. It feels very sharp, very bespoke and very unique.
01:52We've used a very strong white bench top because it's located at the base of the singular window to
01:58the studio. What that does is help to flood the space with light and the bench top and splash back
02:02reads a little bit like a like a giant lantern. It has a glow. We've employed a number of compact
02:09appliances and everything in the kitchen is concealed. There's a washer dryer combination so there's a
02:15pull-out dishwasher, there's a microwave but also a very generous sized fridge. We decided to use frosted
02:23glass for the bathroom door as a as a mechanism or tool to be able to borrow light from the
02:28window in
02:28the bathroom and bring more light into the studio and what's really beautiful about the glass is that
02:32at night when the lights are on in the bathroom it helps to illuminate the space almost like a giant
02:37lamp.
02:39All of the surfaces in the bathroom are finished in the same tile creates a very unique geometric
02:44pattern and helps to make the bathroom feel much larger than in fact is. The apartment overall presents
02:52as a very simple solution but it's in fact there's a great deal of consideration goes into getting all
02:57of the details right. The way that the blind rolls down just behind the tap or the concealed strip
03:03lighting in the shower right down to the small details like the push touch doors in the kitchen
03:09or the concealed finger pull handles. It's very important to be able to make use of existing
03:14building stock and improve upon that so that people are very comfortable living in our cities.
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