Luxe living for the whole family.

Our client’s 3 bed 3 bath penthouse apartment’s early decor of 2005 had dated and they set the brief to create a more open fluid space that could serve hybrid working whilst acting as a haven for the end of each busy working day. They felt that they wanted a sense of spatial awareness across and through the apartment - something that their current schematic and design simply wasn’t giving them.

The potential for this spacious penthouse to achieve a luxury urban yet homely status was our ambition through beautiful well-appointed and connected design. Its elevated views over the River Liffey in the Old Medieval City Quarter of Dublin would be our starting point. We developed a colour scheme from the river itself. Using a palette of muted greys for paints for the walls and ceilings coupled with silvery whites for coving and skirting, textured wallpaper as an interlude and for some drama, silvery grey/blue for kitchen cabinetry and furniture and deep walnut brown for wooden flooring underfoot. We used colour mixed with well-curated local art and pops of colour in furnishings, to tie the scheme together. The resulting design was seamlessly purposeful for bringing people together and yet having their own space to enjoy all day every day at any time of day, in sheer luxury. as they choose. What resuted was a very smart, modern, urban interior – quite the opposite to this client’s home in the country, which is filled with antiques, fabric and pattern.

Design Highlights

In the entrance hall, wallpapered in textured Haywood by Thibaut, a feature wall provides a charcoal canvass that behaves like a substantial piece of art with its bark lined pattern of organic swirls and curved lines. This informs a palette of grey paint colours used throughout the entire apartment. Simply white on ceiling coving, and architrave, also used throughout, adds a note of glamour to the greys. A contrasting warm American dark walnut floor stretches the expansive feel of the total space across all rooms and onwards to the matched decking of three large balconies at the perimeter of the apartment.

The muted grey walls of Benjamin Moore’s Baltic Gray in the hall was chosen to set the refined middle tone for the use of other greys in the living and reception spaces beyond. Its hint of greige brings the versatility needed to blend with the red hues of the walnut floor.

A sharp gloss white console table with contrasting black curved legs enhances the glamourous feel while the earthy-hued Donald Teskey prints on the walls help to anchor the hall’s scheme reinforcing the warmer detail.

The 2 large ensuite bedrooms beyond with their brown-black beds and bedside tables and access to a private balcony space are distinguished through their wallpaper and art. The master bedroom is papered in Thibaut’s indigo blue linen sisal. The second bedroom is papered with a glamorous silver metallic Sahara by Sketch Twenty 3. Illustrations of bears and zebra, with abstract hues of brown and purple, by Claudine O’Sullivan are framed and hung on the walls.

Design Highlights

Like most of the fixtures and fittings, the kitchen was custom designed. The acrylic door finish in silver-blue draws and bounces light from the floor to celling window at the end of the adjoining living space. The wall tile is a simple silver with cleverly matched silver grouting, giving a wide single colour to the splashback. The task lighting is warm. Ironmongery is air brushed chrome throughout.

The dining space is spatially zoned by a vertical wall with floating shelves of colourful bright mugs that pick up on the Maser print on the adjoining wall. A  swaged glass pendant bowl light centres the table.

Smoke Embers as a slightly cooler grey works on the walls of the kitchen allowing the silvery blue cabinetry to pop. A comforting light Pewter Grey is used on the ceiling of the kitchen. Nimbus - a soft greige is the key colour for the dining/living space walls and stretches to the guest bedroom which can open up to connect to the living area. The blue weave of the 8 seater couch in the living area is balanced with indulgent piped velvet cushions in picking up and complementing the wonderful colours of the large City Walls print by Tim Goulding. A 1940’s wooden console table with a lamp softens and connects the living and dining zones. It’s baked glass Nimbus coloured top protects it and connects it to similar tops custom made for all consoles and side tables throughout te entire apartment.

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A Smart, modern, urban penthouse and a luxurious, inviting home