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Project . Falls House
Location . Blue Mountains, Australia
Size . 4 bedroom residence
Scope . full residence design and furnishing

Falls House is where the work began, and where it continues. Our own weekender in the dramatic landscape of the Blue Mountains — gutted, rebuilt, and continuously evolving. Designed as a private sanctuary for two, it is equally at home hosting a full table of family and friends. The rooms shift with the occasion: warm and convivial when the house is full, quiet and restorative when it isn't. The bush presses close on all sides, framed deliberately through the windows, and the interior pays it respect — serene enough to exhale in, characterful enough to linger.

Entry with brass shield sconce, black door with brass pull, Cherner chair and terracotta paver floor
Kitchen and dining with Calacatta Monet splashback, brass bridge tap and walnut cabinetry

The material palette was established early and held firmly. Walnut joinery and flooring run throughout, warming every room they enter. Calacatta Monet stone with its deep violet and jade veining anchors the kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry, and dictated much of what followed. Pink travertine and handmade Zellige tiles in white and almond bring texture and irregularity where the stone gives way. Brass hardware and tapware unify the details. A powder room drenched in deep aubergine pulls the purple tones of the marble into their fullest expression.

Silver gallery tray and brass plant mister on the marble coffee table
Gum blossom in a black vase with a silver comport, against charcoal joinery
Aged brass bridge tap and spray against a Calacatta Monet splashback
The dining room at night, saucer pendant lit above the walnut table and Cherner chairs
Kitchen detail — Calacatta Monet splashback above walnut cabinetry, a black oven and a Marshall speaker on top

Lighting was treated as furniture. Each fitting was chosen for what it contributes to the room at dusk — not just what it looks like in daylight. Vintage Italian sconces cast pools of warm light that shift the atmosphere of a room entirely, turning the same space that feels open and considered in the afternoon into something more intimate by evening. Brass hardware runs as a quiet thread through every room, connecting the details without calling attention to itself. The house is designed to feel different at different hours. It does.

Vintage brass wall sconce throwing a pool of warm light across the wall
Textured amber glass sconce lighting a wall painted deep aubergine
Gold-framed portrait of a woman blowing a bubblegum bubble, on a wall drenched in deep aubergine
Gold-framed portrait of a woman blowing a bubblegum bubble, on a wall drenched in deep aubergine
Shower lined in handmade zellige tile with an aged brass rain head
Ensuite with twin wavy black-framed mirrors above a Calacatta Monet double vanity in walnut
Freestanding bath with brass floor-mounted tap below a gold-framed landscape painting
Bedside detail — burl wood table, fluted wall light and framed pictures against tobacco bedding
Bedside detail — burl wood table, fluted wall light and framed pictures against tobacco bedding
Dark portrait painting in a black frame beside the entry door, kangaroo paw in the foreground

Falls House accumulates quietly. Contemporary furniture sits alongside carefully sourced antiques. Some restored, some found exactly as they were, collected across years of looking, in markets and galleries and places not designed for either. The art is similarly restless: modern minimalist paintings next to vintage posters, fine pieces next to affordable ones, nothing chosen to match and everything chosen to mean something. Every room is ever evolving. That is the point.

Gallery wall of exhibition posters and a gold-framed etching above a walnut credenza of fashion books
Framed pieces stacked on a walnut cabinet — vintage sheet music, a blue abstract, a fashion photograph

before, and after.

  • A cozy interior room with tiled floor, white walls, a red accent wall, a wood-burning stove, and a sliding glass door leading to an outdoor patio with brick and wooden surroundings.

  • A round wooden dining table with four wooden chairs, a black vase with branches and buds, a small silver tray, and a large beige paper lantern hanging from the ceiling by a black cord inside a modern room with dark wooden floors and large black-framed windows.

  • Old living room with red accent wall, and large window with closed blinds and maroon curtains.

  • Living room with ivory and beige sofas, a set of nestled coffee tables of marble and steel, a decorative vase with branches, and large windows with sheer curtains, illuminated by natural light.

  • Old bathroom vanity with wooden cabinets, a white sink, faucet, and mirror, with tiled floor and baby blue walls.

  • A threshold view of the renovated bathroom with a calacatta viola marble sink, a small ceramic vases with white flowers, a mirrored wall and a wall-mounted brass faucet.

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