Dylan Farrell has completed a modern home in Sydney whose interior has been creatively stripped, reconfigured and embellished with colour, bold textural relationships and a combination of international, local sourcing and custom furniture. In short, the house is updated on a large scale with a modern transitional style to relax the aesthetics. The house needed a modern solution, but the studio, taking inspiration from France and Belgium, removed the edges that might have been cold, the living decor and urban details that you might see in a run-down Apartment in Paris -- decorations that can be gracefully aged and worn out.

Dylan Farrell  stripped away the building’s structure at the center of the house and inserted a series of 2-storey glass doors to create a central atrium between the wings of the home — a lens where one looks through the heart of the home, down the sweeping landscape and toward the perched view of the water.

The spiralling staircase drives a sculptural spoke between it all by sharing the same dark vs light materiality and drama.The combed lacquer fireplace wall recalls the trowelling marks of a rake through soil, colliding comfortably with a hand-finished, burnished brass fireplace surround.

The Master Ensuite’s ceiling was sculpted to create the miniature version of the vastly high, curved ceiling throughout the home’s top floor giving the client the ability to appreciate the architecture’s original beauty on both a majestic and intimate level.The timbers used at every joinery piece and every architectural junction are sensitively wire-brushed and finished to feel alive and tactile.