CREATE YOUR SPACE
Design a home that truly reflects you from room to room with a little help from Freedom Kitchen + Wardrobes
The home is an extension of the self, so it makes sense that the internal styling speaks with one clear voice: yours. It’s not always easy to find cohesion between different living spaces, but it can be made simple.
For homeowners Debbie and Roger, enlisting the help of Freedom Kitchens + Wardrobes meant they could have the dream home they’d always wanted. With beautiful black-framed windows at the heart of their brief, their home was transformed into a moody yet sophisticated entertainers’ delight.
The kitchen – so important due to Debbie and Roger’s love of hosting – is light-filled and generous, a modern, symmetrical and high-contrast design thanks to Freedom Kitchen’s Alaskan Black Ultramatt doors against the Caesarstone Empira White marble splashback and chic, waterfall-edged island bench.
The Caesarstone is carried through to the master bedroom’s walk-in wardrobe, turning the island and make-up station into an eye-catching focal point. With the dramatic black theme continued in Roger’s home office – contrasted with dark, warm timbers – there’s no doubt this highly functional space belongs.
As these spaces belong together, so too do they belong to Debbie and Roger, coming together to create that most unique of design briefs: a home.
NO IT’S T ALWAYS EASY TO FIND COHESION BETWEEN DIFFERENT SPACES IN THE HOME
The brief from the owners of this gracious Federation-era Sydney home was clear: create a light, luxe new kitchen in which timeless form truly meets function. Interior architect Jade Bury, director of Harper Lane Design, relished the task. “The homeowners own a cafe and love to cook,” says Jade. “The brief allowed us to layer detail, colour and space-conscious solutions.”
The transformed cooking and dining zone features elements that both surprise and delight. In choosing a colour for the bespoke panelled cabinetry, Jade toyed with sage greens, navy blues and sandy neutrals before settling on moody French Slate by Porter’s Paints. “It felt approachable, while maintaining the depth we wanted to achieve,” says Jade. “Combined with brass touches and chocolate oak floors, it’s rich without being overwhelming, softened by the crisp white walls. We favoured natural finishes that would patina organically over time.”
Finding space in the relatively narrow structure for a large island and plenty of storage was a hurdle. “In the end, we managed to find a shape that allowed ample space for preparation and pantry storage,” says Jade of a kitchen that is “loved and utilised” by its delighted owners every day.