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Issue 60 - The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

Issue 60

The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

HABITUS has always stood ahead of the rest with a dedicated Kitchen and Bathroom issue of exemplar standards. For issue 60 we have taken it up a notch with our Guest Editor the extraordinary, queen of kitchen design, Sarah-Jane Pyke of Arent&Pyke, speaking directly to Kitchen and Bathroom design with some increadable insights.

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Winnings x Habitus House of the Year shortlist: Gold Coast Apartment by SJB
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Winnings x Habitus House of the Year shortlist: Gold Coast Apartment by SJB

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Habitus House of the Year 2024 Nominee

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SJB

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Alicia Taylor

Gold Coast Apartment by SJB has been shortlisted for Winnings x Habitus House of the Year 2024.


Holidaying on the beach is good fun. Gone are the tropes of shell artwork on the walls and wabi-sabi decor. Instead, this holidaymaker on Broadbeach, Queensland looks to Miami Vice-meets-Gold Coast to define a playful retreat packed full of colour and party.

Set within an Ian Moore tower built in the early 2000s, the apartment had previously undergone a series of clunky renovations with excessive built-ins. We stripped the double-height apartment back to its good bones and renovated the kitchen, bathrooms and lighting. We injected an expansive 80s pastel palette of lobster pink and baby blue throughout and celebrated crisp lines and dramatic verticality.

The lower level is for play, with divided living and dining spaces all perfect for entertaining. Upon entry to the apartment, a double-height void and a glass and
steel floating staircase create a grand scale. The kitchen is centred around a chrome island on legs and a groovy purple lacquered cocktail cabinet, marrying the new elevator wall treatment. Beyond, a double-height dining room with views out to the Gold Coast high rises is positively metropolitan. Furniture selection meets the bright cacophony of wall colour but never intends to be competing, instead the perfect backdrop for life on your jollies.

Upstairs, the palette is stripped back mostly to white and light grey with pops of colour throughout. In the master suite, the bed is centred in the room emphasising the room’s proportions and all the colour lies in the contemporary artwork. The passageway to a guest room is painted in ultramarine blue and we inserted a large porthole window out to the void – daring a day-club level of exuberance and bringing in the light. In the guest rooms, custom velvet-striped bed heads each in a primary shade define the individual rooms and keeps firmly in style with the home also with a subtle reference to the beach.

The apartment confidently darts through colour and mod-come-retro-come-mod- again references all the while pertaining to a formal floor plan for life, privacy and play.

Read about the 2024 Winnings x Habitus House of the Year shortlist: Wãnaka S.K.I. House by Roberts Gray Architects


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Issue 60 - The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

Issue 60

The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

HABITUS has always stood ahead of the rest with a dedicated Kitchen and Bathroom issue of exemplar standards. For issue 60 we have taken it up a notch with our Guest Editor the extraordinary, queen of kitchen design, Sarah-Jane Pyke of Arent&Pyke, speaking directly to Kitchen and Bathroom design with some increadable insights.

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