The entrance at Sanjay House: a green living wall framing a patterned screen, a stone panel carrying the family name and a fluted timber door alongside it.

Sanjay House

First Impression

The entrance is the first expression of the home, conceived to be calm, composed and intentional. The arrival experience is softened by layers of natural textures, timber and greenery to create a transition that feels both welcoming and private.

Light is used as an architectural element, filtering through the layers of surfaces and revealing the subtle changes of texture through the day. The palette of materials conveys a sense of warmth even before you step inside the living spaces.

The living room: low pale sofas around a timber and stone table under a slatted timber ceiling, a sculptural disc mounted on the panelled wall behind.
The living room across its full width: seating grouped on a pale rug, the bar and its lit shelving to the left and curtained glazing to the right.
The bar: a walnut and marble counter with two stools, backlit bottle shelving behind it and a glazed display cabinet to one side.
The same bar with the screen above it lit, the slatted timber ceiling running overhead and the counter left in shadow.

In Between Moments

The heart of a home is defined by the spaces between its functions — where living, dining, entertaining and everyday rituals naturally overlap. They are not separate volumes for each room, but rather they blend into each other.

Lighting changes and ceiling treatments punctuate a continuous material language of warm timber, stone and muted tones, giving each space its own identity. The result is a home that feels connected but not repetitive.

The living areas are rated for gathering and pause. Open views encourage interaction, and strategically placed furniture and architectural elements create smaller intimate pockets within the larger space.

The dining room: six chairs around a stone-topped table under a faceted pendant, with lit glass cabinetry running the length of the wall.
The entrance vestibule seen from inside: a mirrored panel with a fine geometric inlay above a timber console holding a sculpture, the rooms beyond opening to the right.

The Private Chapters

Beyond the social hub of the residence, the private spaces have a more quiet rhythm. Bedrooms, the study and the bathrooms are conceived of as intimate environments, each providing a sense of retreat yet remaining connected to the larger architectural language.

The material palette is calm, with soft neutrals, warm timber and tactile surfaces. Here, detail is deliberately restrained so that texture, proportion and natural light become the defining features.

Bedrooms are designed for comfort and calm, with layered lighting and carefully framed views that lend them a personal, rather than purely functional, feel. There is a reason for everything and nothing seems over the top.

The main bedroom: an upholstered bed against a panelled wall, a glass pendant hanging either side and full-height curtains along the glazing.
The same bedroom from the bed: the television on a stone panel above a floating timber console, two framed prints alongside it.
The guest bedroom: an abstract canvas over a wide upholstered headboard, gloss wardrobes to the right and a stepped cluster of pendants at the bedside.
The guest bedroom's television wall: a stone panel above a floating console, with the beds in the foreground and a timber door beyond.
The study: a timber desk under open shelving of books and objects, a linear pendant above it and shuttered windows to one side.
A bathroom: a walk-in shower lined in brown marble with a lit niche, a robe on the hook beside it and the vanity in the foreground.
A bathroom: a backlit mirror over a floating vanity, a wall-hung WC beside it and brown marble running across the walls and into the shower.

As Built

Photographed after handover. The rooms on this page were drawn first and are shown above as they were drawn; these are the same rooms once the ceiling was up, the stone was laid and the family had moved in.

The entrance landing as built: a perforated screen across the window, a marble-veined panel beside the dark timber double door, and a black console standing on terrazzo.
The vestibule inside the door: a mirrored panel held in a slim copper grid, a timber door beside it and a low shoe cabinet beneath.
The corridor: a wall of white textured stone, a rounded console carrying a vase, and marble flooring running on past the timber door frames.
The formal living room head-on: a circular textured medallion set into a stone panel between two wall lights, the timber slat ceiling above and carved sofas facing across a low table.
The same room from the window end, the curtained glazing to one side and the sofas in a row down the length of it.
The long view through the apartment stood upright, the slat ceiling curving away over the marble floor.
A corner of the living room: a carved sofa against timber panelling, a glazed timber-framed screen with shelving behind it, and marble underfoot.
The same long view lying down: the slat ceiling overhead, a black stone console with a plant, and the seating and glazing at the far end.
A corner given a tall black metal shelf and a timber grid partition, plants set along the lower shelves.
A bedroom: a wide channelled headboard running the width of the bed, with a built-in bedside shelf and a pendant hung either side.
A bedroom wardrobe run: full-height doors with slim vertical handles, a timber door beside them and a cove-lit ceiling above.
The kitchen: blush upper cabinets over pale grey bases, a marble splashback and a dark stone counter running to the window.
The kitchen wider: the L of the run with the television set into the uppers and the appliances along the counter.
The dining end: an oval timber raft in the ceiling with a fan below it, carved chairs drawn up to the table, and the exercise corner past the curtains.

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