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One palette, room by room
A five-material palette was set at the start and applied to every room, so each phase joined the last seamlessly.
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Whole-home design · Hillsborough, Peninsula · 2024
Hillsborough Whole-Home
A large house that had been decorated in pieces over twenty years. Our task was to make it read as one building again.
- Size
- 7,400 sq ft
- Scope
- Whole-home design, furnishing, management
- Duration
- 16 months
- Rooms
- Fourteen
The brief
- Unify twenty years of piecemeal decoration into a single coherent language.
- Keep the family living in the house throughout the works.
- Retain and re-home the pieces they genuinely loved.
The approach
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Phased by floor
Work moved floor by floor, with a clean, liveable boundary at every stage.
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Edit before buying
We catalogued existing furniture first; a third of it was restored and kept, which funded better new pieces elsewhere.
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Lighting as the connector
A single lighting language — warm, layered, dimmed low — ties rooms of very different scale together.
Renderings
Five views of the finished design.
Materials
- Limewash plaster
- Oak flooring
- Linen and wool
- Limestone
- Antique brass
The outcome
- Fourteen rooms delivered across sixteen months with the family in residence.
- A third of the existing furniture restored rather than replaced.
- The house now reads as one design rather than twenty years of layers.
“Guests can't tell which rooms are new. That was exactly the point.”
Next step
Begin with a complimentary in-home consultation
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