JOO CHIAT PLACE

Type: Condominium | Location: Joo Chiat Place, Singapore | Home to: 2 Adults + 1 Dog + 2 occasional guests

Designer: Farrah | Project Manager: Zack

This cosy space had a 506 sqft footprint. Our client’s brief was a smart layout optimising their storage needs whilst maintaining a light and airy feel throughout the home.

A solution was to segregate spaces using colours (perhaps a Wes Anderson colour palette?) and with as little greys/black as possible. An eclectic outlook developed within the spaces: navy for the bathroom, blue for the bedrooms, green for the living areas and pink for the kitchen!

To expand the common corridors and its utility, we rotated the toilet bowl and pushed back the bathroom walls. With that, we were able to utilize the corridor as the laundry station, which in turn, gave more space in the living and kitchen area.

We applied the same muted green that accented the living room wall around the corridor as part of the living space. The effect of this gave an enclosed transition from the living to the bedrooms.

We reorganised the home by removing the original peninsular kitchen counter, replacing it with a straight kitchen. The linear flow from the kitchen to the living seemed to visually lengthen the space.

Though the use of colors within this home was expansive, we applied the same wood patterned laminate throughout the different spaces, giving some semblance of uniformity.

We were extremely proud and glad to have pulled off this bathroom for our clients. As the bathroom proved to be a tight and potentially dim space, we pulled out another trick from the bag: cladding the top bit of the bathroom with mirrors to let the natural light bounce about the space. Not forgetting to design the bathroom on a white base, but giving it a twist with patterns to delight, and blue epoxy grout for play. Definitely a place of cheer and ease!