Renovated North Bondi apartment living area with curved archway, coffered ceiling and green velvet sofa.

Bondi Green Apartment | North Bondi

The North Bondi apartment was shaped by the client’s love of all things green. As the property is a rental, the design needed to remain largely neutral, but subtle touches of green were woven throughout to reflect the client’s personality, seen in the bathroom’s mosaic green tiles, the soft green accents of the arches, and layered details carried across the apartment.

The apartment sits at the very end of North Bondi Beach, in a pocket of the suburb defined by its interwar Art Deco apartment buildings. The design takes its cue from that local vernacular, translating it through curved arched openings; the apartment enjoys phenomenal views of the ocean. The chosen greens needed to complement the ever-changing blues of the water that future occupants will look out onto every day, creating a seamless dialogue between the interior and its iconic coastal backdrop.

This project presented unique challenges, including strata restrictions and ongoing issues with water ingress from the apartment above. Despite these complexities, the redesign delivers a fresh, balanced interior that feels both timeless and personal, with quiet injections of colour that elevate the neutral backdrop.

Deliverables

_ Navigating Strata & Certification
Pathways in Class 2 Projects

_ Streamlining Approvals: Working with Strata and Certifiers in Class 2 Buildings

_ Interior Design and Detailing

_ Interior Architecture

_ Finishes and Fittings Selection

_ Joinery Design

_Procurement
_Project Management
_Site Co-Ordination with the builder throughout the renovation

PHOTOGRAPHY
Louise Wellington

BUILDER
NRC Projects

STYLING & FURNITURE
Few & Far

North Bondi, NSW | Residential Apartment Interior Design & Building Design 2023 - 2026

"Some projects are a grind, and some are a joy. North Bondi with Inera Studio, run by Nicola Bird, was the second kind.
Clear documentation, quick answers, and a design that makes the house feel like a home. North Bondi is now a
NSW awards finalist — a credit to Nicola's design, and a genuine pleasure to be part of.

In fact, I saw enough on that job to engage Nicola to design my own holiday home in Katoomba.
There's no better endorsement than that."

Ross, NRC Projects | North Bondi

Concept sketch by Inera Studio of a kitchen design featuring a central island with bar stools, pendant lighting, timber cabinetry, and an arched doorway.

Renovated North Bondi apartment kitchen with oak joinery, Smartstone Calacatta benchtops and an arched opening to the butler’s pantry

North Bondi kitchen seen through an arch, with timber joinery, curved open shelves and a Smartstone Carrara benchtop

North Bondi kitchen with timber veneer joinery and integrated ovens, beside a rendered arch to the hallway

North Bondi is full of interwar Art Deco buildings that most people walk past without registering.The apartment had to feel like it had always been part of the building.

Bondi Green kitchen island under Studio Enti lighting, looking through a rendered arch to the hallway beyond

The arches came first. Once we had the curved openings, the palette almost chose itself: pale teal, faded green, warm sand, off white. Those are the colours already in the street.

North Bondi apartment kitchen with Smartstone Calacatta benchtops, oak joinery and a linen roman blind over the sink

North Bondi kitchen with a curved timber veneer island, Studio Enti pendants and an arch through to the laundry

North Bondi kitchen with timber veneer and white joinery, a stone splashback and globe pendants over the island

North Bondi apartment kitchen with a curved Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble island and Smartstone Carrara benchtops.

Curved plaster archway to the kitchen in a North Bondi apartment, with Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble oak island.

Curved stone splashback detail in a renovated North Bondi apartment kitchen, with timber overhead cabinetry above

North Bondi apartment laundry with a made to measure hanging rail and Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble overheads

Laundry in a renovated North Bondi apartment with an undermount sink, stone benchtop and timber overhead cabinetry

The apartment is at the very end of the beach, so the blue is the first thing you see in every room. We chose greens that shift with it, so the interior reads differently at eight in the morning than it does at five in the afternoon

Oceanfront living room in a renovated North Bondi apartment with Earp Brothers timber-look floor tiles and sheer linen curtains.

North Bondi apartment with a rendered arch beside timber joinery and an arched internal window

Arched panel joinery doors with tall metal pulls beside a cane sideboard set up as a bar, in a North Bondi apartment.

The client's brief was essentially one word: green.
Our job was to work out which green, and how quietly they could be introduced without the whole apartment turning into a statement.

Custom arched internal window in a renovated North Bondi apartment, with green velvet sofa and arched metal coffee tables below

Arched coffee tables styled with ceramics and dried stems, beside a window to the ocean.

iving room detail in a renovated North Bondi apartment with a green velvet sofa, arched metal coffee tables and sheer grey curtains.

North Bondi apartment bathroom with Academy Tiles stack bond wall tiles, marble vanity top and brushed nickel tapware.

Nero brushed nickel tapware in a renovated North Bondi apartment bathroom with Academy Tiles stack bond walls

Green is easy to overdo. We layered it instead of applying it, so it appears in the mosaic tile, in the soft edges of the arches, in details you find on the second or third visit rather than the first.

North Bondi apartment bathroom with Onsite tiles and a Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble vanity

North Bondi ensuite with Nightworks Studio lights, Academy Tiles walls and a Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble vanity

North Bondi bathroom with Onsite mosaic tiles, Academy Tiles stack bond walls and a Smartstone Calacatta niche

Timber handle detail on custom DSK joinery in Dulux Half Natural White, Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble, North Bondi

Custom DSK joinery in a North Bondi apartment, Dulux Half Natural White with Briggs Veneers Truegrain Pebble detail

Square is where the timber stopped. Curved is where we decided it should finish, so the handles carry the arch language through the apartment

North Bondi apartment bedroom with ocean views, sheer linen curtains and Earp Brothers timber-look floor tiles

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