This 30-year-old, 2,800sqf three-storey terrace house in the east was dark and stuffy before the new owners and their three young children started renovations with Alan Choo of Project File.
The real highlight of this home is the owners’ extensive collection of designer furniture, which cost them over $100,000. Classic pieces such as the Poliform Metropolitan sofa, Noguchi coffee table and Flos Arco floor lamp contrast with playful Cappellini Scratch armchairs in the living room.
Alan redesigned the kitchen entirely to be an open-concept space. The new layout brightened and improved ventilation on the first floor, but more importantly synergized with the occupants’ rhythms.
A luxurious, 3.8m-long island counter with a hardy Caesarstone quartz top now sits in the middle of the spacious cookspace.
The concealed powder room (next to the entertaining area) has lighting wired in various configurations to set different moods.
There are actually four doors here! Clever detailing has been employed so as to camouflage them to maintain a clean look.
The master bedroom features a unique asymmetrical headboard; and designer classics such as the Knoll Womb Chair.
The husband, who is a graphic designer, relied on his creativity to make his own “circular-themed” art to complement the round Gubi mirror. “I couldn’t find what I wanted, so I made it myself,” he says.
The youngest girl in the family, Jeff’s three-year-old, wanted a “princess dollhouse” look for her room, as well as a space for her rocking horse.
Up on the third level, the multi-purpose family room is almost fully furnished in Matthew Hilton pieces.
The greenwall and earth-toned stucco wall treatment lend an organic feel to the front of the house.