A Sydney home is given a significant update by Lawless & Meyerson and MHNDU with the new design respecting and highlighting existing details.
Renovated more than twenty years earlier, Lawless & Meyerson creative director and interior designer Jo Lawless shares that much of the original structure has now been rebuilt. While strongly resembling the former residence, most of the internal walls have been removed or replaced. “Interiors were reconfigured to create generous communal rooms, intimate retreats and seamless connections to garden and pool” Lawless adds.
With expansive views opening the home to harbour light, the kitchen, dining, and living are all situated in the one open area. This main level centres around a relocated kitchen, scullery, and a library “conceived as a shared space for family life” architect and MHNDU founding principal Brian Meyerson says. Here, a large library table accommodates multiple uses and has some of the best views to the pool and terrace.
The primary suite and additional bedrooms are located on the upper floor accessed by a spiral staircase. These are softly detailed and generous rooms that open out to planted balconies. Framing the views and complementing the interiors, steel windows and doors on both levels give the home its distinctive character. The repetition of the curved openings creates spatial rhythm and provides a visual or direct link to courtyard gardens with mature olive trees and an understorey of formal and soft planting combinations designed by Dangar Barin Smith. This connection to the garden with open sightlines extends the experience of those occupying the house throughout the day at any given time.
