This modern renovation took place on the 10th floor of an apartment building overlooking the beautiful Sunshine Coast. The owners were in their 60’s at the time of the renovation. The brief was ‘black and white’, and they wanted to combine 2 separate apartments to create one 4 bedroom apartment with large living spaces that took in the views of the ocean and river mouth.

When renovating in an apartment building, there are structural elements that MUST be considered aka your floor is the lower level’s ceiling, and your ceiling is the level above’s floor. In a major renovation such as this, there a clever ways to ensure you can make changes without compromising the integrity of the building.

CHALLENGES:
- We removed all of the asbestos in the house, and then plastered the walls and ceilings with a level 5 finish, which gave us the ability to recess the lighting and shift it to where we wanted it.
- As the bedroom wall was an outside wall of the building, we weren’t able to cut into it. To keep the price down, we designed the feature wall to run electricity behind it, while also using that feature wall to create the bulkhead of the bed.
- Because space is of such incredible value in apartments, to add greater space to the balcony off the bedroom without needing to change the wall structure, we used a Ferguson Stacker was used for the door.
- Lack of natural lighting. As the ensuite off the bedroom had no natural light through windows or sunlights, we made the door a glass panel to carry natural light from the balcony, through the bedroom, into the bathroom. The result flooded the bathroom with light!

Keeping with the soft colouring that suited the mood of the owner, also kept with the notion of enhancing natural light in the bedroom. Softening the robes by using edgeless glass doors kept the room bright while allowing light into the wardrobes.

This apartment was a stunning overall renovation. With a budget of 200k, we kept the complete renovation within 220k (including the incredible 14k stove).