{"id":2351,"date":"2025-06-18T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2025\/06\/18\/kitchen-of-the-week-a-before-after-remodel-in-sydney-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:41:38","slug":"kitchen-of-the-week-a-before-after-remodel-in-sydney-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/kitchen-of-the-week-a-before-after-remodel-in-sydney-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00fcche der Woche: Ein Vorher\/Nachher-Umbau in Sydney, Australien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney interior designers Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke have been lauded by the Australian design press for \u201ctearing down the walls of conservative design and replacing them with color and layers of sophisticated style.\u201d A good example is their remodel of an early-20th-century house in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra. We particularly like the kitchen with its accents of sage and oak and subtle curves. The design preserved the existing horseshoe layout (see Before shot at bottom) but turned the uninspired into something glamorous and fresh-looking.<\/p>\n

Photography by Felix Forest, courtesy of Arent & Pyke.<\/p>\n

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Above: The kitchen is set in the back of the house overlooking the garden, which provided inspiration for the color and materials choices. \u201cThe palette,\u201d the designers say, \u201cis layered from the earth upwards, growing from silver travertine flooring to mossy green cabinetry and natural solid oak with a fade to pure white.\u201d Black accents also punctuate the space, including a classic Thonet bentwood barstool.<\/p>\n

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Above: Meet the curvaceous kitchen: The Calacatta marble counters are detailed with rounded edges that are echoed by the oak finger grooves on the cabinets, the Astral Walker spout faucet, and the contours of the Belfast butler\u2019s sink.<\/p>\n

The open shelves have arched brackets made of MDF: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t find the right little black brackets,\u201d explained Arent & Pyke associate Dominique Brammah. \u201cso we designed our own and our crew made them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Above: The cabinets are in Moorland from Dulux paints, \u201ca semigloss enamel that we rolled on and then finished with a brush,\u201d says Brammah. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard-wearing and unlike two-pack polyurethane paints, you can touch it up if it gets scratched or chipped.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Above: The glossy, outsize subway tiles are handmade (sourced from The Art of Tiles) and the Miller sconces are by Rubn: See New Classics from Sweden. Tall cabinets next to the counter serve as the pantry. A stainless steel fridge and freezer stand on a side wall.<\/p>\n

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Above: The travertine floor travels from the kitchen to the adjacent dining room. The table is the Atticus by Lowe, surrounded by Bedont\u2019s Drive Chairs. The owl is by Sydney photographer Leila Jeffreys.<\/p>\n

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Above: The kitchen in its last incarnation had honey-colored wood cabinetry and a terracotta-tiled floor.<\/p>\n

To see Arent & Pyke fully unleashed, go to Color Mix in Perth: The Alex Hotel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sydney interior designers Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke have been lauded by the Australian design press for \u201ctearing down the walls of conservative design and replacing them with color and layers of sophisticated style.\u201d A good example is their remodel of an early-20th-century house in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra. We particularly like the kitchen with its […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}