Clara Street Studio
Design Company
Bakker Studios
Location
Clara Street Newtown, NSW
Year
2020
$200,000
Role
Detailing + Documentation
Council Coordination
Services + Onsite Coordination
Interior Design
Lighting Design
Team + Credits
Builder: Shoi Co Pty Ltd
Studio Cabinet: Nick Kettley
Second hand items: Penny McBride
Clara Street Studio
The Innerwest of Sydney loves a good quirky building or two. A chamfered two storey studio building, with playful offset windows, sits neatly in the back garden of an existing federation single storey Semi.
Between the two, a light filled bath house.
Bakker Studios worked closely with the owner, who sourced second hand objects. The items were coordinated into the design, resulting in a new build, with love and soul.
A blue enamelled Art Deco basin is paired with handmade blue tiles in the bath house, while an old timber refrigerator is updated to become a bathroom cabinet in the studio bathroom, an art deco mirror and light suspended above. The light and airfilled studio loft, with its 3 angled ceiling and playful offset windows, is warmed through the inclusion of remilled, recycled, hardwood timber floors, stairs and balustrade.