Wylde St Apartment

The brief was to transform the floorplan into an ideal dwelling for the owner, who had just moved to the area from a very different kind of home.

‘Prior to moving to Potts Point, he lived at a farm just outside Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands,’ Five Foot One Design director Kathryn Thompson says. ‘His work and social life demanded he spend more time in Sydney, so he bought this little apartment and asked us to upgrade it.

‘This was the smallest space we’d ever worked with, and the apartment itself was also incredibly basic. There was virtually no storage. Plus, the strata requirements meant we couldn’t move any of the plumbing waste points. So, we had to be clever with our design.’

Words by Christina Karras for The Design Files, read more here.