This seaside shack in Sydney’s Northern Seashores was a sea of white and beige — till the brand new owners launched some much-needed life and color in a playful renovation.
After buying their Avalon Seaside dwelling in 2024, Rebecca and Simon Spencer wasted no time making the place their very own, participating Nikki McGar Interiors to start the design course of the day after their settlement.
The house’s largest drawcard was its enviable place — situated simply a few minutes from the sand — together with lovely authentic home windows and a beneficiant glass sliding door that opened onto the deck.
The issue was that the present format didn’t maximise this outlook; the kitchen confronted the driveway and was minimize off from the remainder of the household areas.
With an appreciation for the house’s retro aptitude, the shopper’s transient was all about enhancing its authentic charms, whereas making the footprint extra useful for his or her busy household of 4.
‘A humble Fifties seaside shack has such a robust character, and the goal was at all times so as to add to that slightly than cowl it up,’ inside designer Nikki McGar explains.
Maintaining the unique home windows and glass sliding door, the renovation made full use of the pure gentle and coastal breeze by pulling the kitchen out from behind a wall into the massive eating space.
‘We sacrificed a part of the eating space to maximise the kitchen footprint, making room for a beneficiant island the place the household can hang around whereas somebody’s cooking,’ Nikki says.
The brand new kitchen is the place the couple’s love of color shines by way of most, that includes top-to-toe pink joinery — a non-negotiable from the beginning.
‘The trick was discovering precisely the best pink: not too child woman’s bed room, however not too soiled both,’ Nikki says.
Enjoyable color decisions additionally convey new vitality all through the remainder of the renovation. Within the lavatory, terrazzo-look ground tiles complement the colourful blue tiles, with the bonus of not displaying each speck of grime.
By protecting issues easy and specializing in maximising the present house, Nikki made an affect with out compromising on Rebecca and Simon’s must-have options.
‘It allowed us to spend extra on the issues that mattered to them, like a boiling and chilled water faucet, a freestanding cooker and built-in home equipment,’ she says.
The transformation has turned this dwelling right into a playful, light-filled house — a real reflection of the household, whereas sitting harmoniously inside the authentic construction.
‘I’m additionally proud that the home nonetheless appears like a seaside shack,’ Nikki provides.
‘It has been delivered to life with color and character, but it surely hasn’t misplaced its soul.’
