SMITH APARTMENT
Darlinghurst, Sydney

Completed 2019

THE CHALLENGE
Provide a refresh to an existing, largely untouched interior to an apartment in the ‘Savoy’, designed by Claud Hamilton and completed in 1919. The existing apartment had limited storage, an ageing bathroom and kitchen and no internal laundry.

THE SOLUTION
The works included a new kitchen, bathroom and robe joinery, which were designed to sympathetically insert into the existing building fabric without detrimentally affecting the existing detailing or finishes. Original glazed tiles were retained in the kitchen as a nod to the buildings heritage, contrasting with the modern joinery insertions.
The bathroom was re-imagined as a single bathing wet-room, with no shower screen to impede on the space. A bespoke shaving cabinet provides much needed storage and ambient-lighting to the room.

A brick apartment building with multiple balconies and large windows, trees in front, parked cars and a person covered with a gray tarp on the street.
View of a corridor leading to a bathroom with white tiled walls and a window, lined with wooden cabinets on both sides, a pink towel hanging, a potted plant, and a pair of blue slippers on the floor.
Interior view of a room with exposed red brick walls, potted plants, and a doorway leading to a bedroom with a white bed, large windows, and a black and orange cat sitting on a chair.
Modern kitchen with black cabinets, white countertop, open wooden shelves, window with city view, black hanging light, and decorated with plants and fruit in a bowl.
Bathroom with white subway tile walls, black fixtures, a square white sink, a wall-mounted mirror above, and a green plant in the corner.

PROJECT TEAM
Builder: Reed Developments
Photography: Katherine Lu

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