It was a chance encounter with another project by Arent&Pyke that encouraged the owners of this federation home in Sydney’s Inner West to embark on a journey of transformation for their own home. The client’s passion for colour, texture and art, and compelled by the depth of character and soul seen in other homes, they engaged Arent＆Pyke to bring their own home to life. What originated as a richly textured furnishing scheme quickly blossomed.

 Inspired by Arent & Pyke’s proposal for a series of astute ‘design interventions’, the client expanded the commission to encompass interior design. Hue House is a celebration of colour and materiality, manifested through a series of ‘lightweight’ design manoeuvres that were subtle in their intervention, but with great impact.

With particular attention paid to the kitchen, living and dining spaces as well as the Master Bedroom, Arent＆Pyke blended new and vintage furnishings with custom-designed pieces. Colour and texture is layered in a painterly fashion, building beauty, comfort and character into functional, useable spaces. The role of materiality is equal to both furniture and furnishing, enriching each space as paint might upon a canvas. 

In the master bedroom, where soft, muted tones abound, an existing built-in joinery item has been re-finished in burr timber. The natural, golden warmth of this finish is continued into the living zones where a custom-designed bench seat is elevated by the addition of a stone-topped end nook.