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Green timber panels star in celebrated coastal home

The inaugural Inside Out Brickworks Home of the Year awards took place last night with a stellar line-up of Aussie houses singled out for their design originality. And while it was another of Kennedy Nolan’s projects (Caroline House) that took out the top honour (Home of the Year 2019), we were rather taken with the firm’s beautifully arresting Sandy Point House which was highly commended in the ‘Best New Home Build’ category.

Sandy Point House
Two perfect circles evoke a ship’s portholes on the home’s exterior

The home’s stunning interior colour palette is one of its standout features – it uses a variety of green shades to stunning effect. “I adore the calmness of this space. The natural colour palette mirrors the existing landscape – it’s a real bushland house. And creating a protected courtyard means that indoor/outdoor living is seamless,” says the editor of Inside Out, Eliza O’Hare who was a judge in the awards.

Sandy Point House
Lounge

Inspired by the home’s bushland setting, there’s green in many shades from sage to olive and many in between. “The colour palette is built around muted, natural tones found in the surrounding landscape and its intensity is varied to shift the atmosphere and mood as you move from room to room,” says Kennedy Nolan architect Adriana Hanna.

Sandy Point House
Kitchen

Located in the modest beachside Victorian hamlet of Sandy Point, this holiday home sits on a steep, sloping block. Built from timber that is suitable for the home’s bushfire prone setting, the exterior wood is designed to ‘grey off’ and become camouflaged within the environment. This is just another way that the home has been beautifully designed, specifically for its unique location.

Sandy Point House
Bathroom

Sandy Point House

Fellow judge Cameron Bruhn, Dean of Architecture at the University of Queensland, is full of praise for the project too and feels it more than fulfils the holiday home brief. “The home has the quintessential settings of a great holiday house and a robustness that will serve generations to come,” says Cameron.

Dining
Dining

It’s been a big year for Kennedy Nolan – the practice has taken out awards in the 2019 Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards, the 2019 Dulux Colour Awards and the 2019 Australian Interior Design Awards too.

Sandy Point House
Hallway

Inside Out Brickworks Home of the Year WINNERS:

Home of the Year 2019: Kennedy Nolan, Caroline Street
Best Use of Materials: BRICK: Renato D’Ettorre Architects, Gordons Bay House
Best Sustainable Project: Adam Kane, Yandoit Cabin
Best New Home Build: Renato D’Ettorre Architects, Gordons Bay House
Best Renovation: Ian Moore, Redfern Warehouse

Inside Out Brickworks Home of the Year HIGHLY COMMENDED:

Best New Home Build: Kennedy Nolan, Sandy Point House
Best Home Renovation: Bustle House, FMD Architects

Photography: Derek Swalwell

For more on Kennedy Nolan | Another green themed holiday home

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Interiors Addict

Illustrator Grace Lee teams up with The Wall Sticker Company

Grace Lee, the Sydney illustrator who now lives in Tokyo, has released her own range of wall stickers that showcase her gift at turning inanimate objects into the uber-cool. The illustrated designs bring instant colour and fun to boring walls and spaces. Would these look fab in your kitchen?

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Freedom Style Council with Vanessa Colyer Tay from Inside Out

Freedom Style Council with Vanessa Colyer Tay from Inside Out   I had a great time at the third and

I had a great time at the third and final Freedom Style Council event at Freedom’s Belrose store on Tuesday night. The delightful Vanessa Colyer Tay, renowned stylist and Inside Out style editor, shared some great insight on the role of a magazine stylist and I thought I’d share it with you. If you’ve ever wondered how they choose the homes to feature in the magazine or how the shoots come together so beautifully, read on.

“Houses come to the magazine through all sorts of channels,” Vanessa said. “Sometimes from an architect, sometimes a proud home decorator and sometimes we seek them out ourselves. Before we start a shoot we like to have a really good idea of what we’re embarking on. We might visit the home and take some rough photos. If it’s a cosy little home it might be better for a winter issue and if it’s a coastal home it might work better in summer. We attend with a photographer and work together to capture the home’s personality. We focus on what works and remove what doesn’t.”

While stylists work with what’s in the home and belongs to the owner, they’ll usually take a box of props with them too. Vanessa said a trick for tying all the shots of different rooms together (which can equally be applied to improving the flow of your own home) was to repeat a splash of the same colour in every room. “It doesn’t have to look like a really colorful home either, it doesn’t have to overwhelm you,” she added. “On the shoots we just add a few little extra things. We want the shots to reflect the owner’s personality.”

TOP TIPS:

“Even in an eclectic home it’s important to offer a bit of breathing space.”

“Try mixing a cluster of smaller items with one big solid item.”

As well as shoots in homes, sometimes the stylists start with a completely blank canvas in a studio.  “This allows us to create a little bit of fantasy,” said Vanessa. And then there are the time-consuming location shoots. “This is where we take everything to a beautiful location and shoot it there. This ties into an emotive response. They’re a big labour of love!”

So how does the story development process work? Briefly:

  1. Develop a good understanding of the brief or concept
  2. Create a colourscheme
  3. Source the products
  4. Develop composition and ideas through sketching.

When starting to create the colourscheme it’s best to start with a visual reference. “You start with a mood board, pull out colours and consider the overall style,” Vanessa said. “When sourcing products they should reflect the colourscheme and overall style of the mood board. Then you sketch out composition ideas.

“The hardest part is always making decisions!”

Later this week, Vanessa’s tips on creating indoor/outdoor living in your own home.

Stylists Arent & Pyke and Jason Grant spoke at the previous Freedom Style Council events this year. Vanessa collaborated with Inside Out style director Glen Proebstel with him doing the shoot and her giving the talk.

Photograph by Sam McAdam