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Jalan Tenteram

An open kitchen and dining area where a white quartz peninsula faced in blue and white patterned cement tile meets a round marble table and dark bentwood chairs.

Balestier · 2015

A wall taken out,

a sheet of glass

put back

A four-room flat where the one structural move is a sheet of glass. The small room beside the main bedroom has lost its solid wall and gained a black-framed sliding screen, so the study joins the bedroom when it is open and closes back into its own room when it is shut. Both keep their own window, which is what makes it work rather than merely look open.

The kitchen peninsula is the only surface allowed to be loud, and it faces the side people sit at.

The galley kitchen looking through to the living room, a long white worktop with open timber cubbies below it and a copper dome pendant over the breakfast counter.
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A bathroom lined in pale stone-effect tile with a walnut wall-hung vanity, a white rectangular vessel basin and a frameless glass screen dividing off the shower.
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Walnut-grain fronts and a timber dish-rack cabinet take the kitchen run; white quartz and metro tile take the rest of it. Open cubbies and a copper pendant mark the breakfast counter at the far end.

Timber where the eye lands,

white lacquer everywhere else

The glass wall is

the whole plan

The main bedroom with a full-height timber headboard wall, a cove-lit ceiling and a black-framed glazed sliding screen opening onto a small study beyond.
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The study seen through the bedroom's black-framed glazed screen, a bamboo desk and folding chair set under a copper wire pendant on strip-parquet flooring.
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The bathroom is lined in pale stone-effect tile with a walnut wall-hung vanity and a frameless screen. Next door the bedroom's full-height timber headboard runs into the black-framed glazing that opens onto the study.

Alabaster wall lights are recessed into the bedroom panelling and grey curtains draw back from a full-width window. Through the screen the study keeps a window of its own, a bamboo desk under a copper wire pendant.

Two rooms that keep

their own windows

Details

A bedroom in pale blue with a timber-topped dressing table, a chest of drawers and a black-framed glazed partition beside the bed.

01The glazed screen

A bedroom with a walnut-panelled headboard wall, blue and white bedding, and a black-framed glazed partition opening to a study.
  • Solid wall between bedroom and study taken out
  • Black-framed sliding glazed screen in its place
  • Study read as part of the bedroom when open
  • Its own room when shut
  • A window kept on each side

02The kitchen

A kitchen run in walnut-grain fronts under a white quartz worktop, with a white metro-tile splashback, a stainless steel hood and a timber dish-rack cabinet beside a louvred window.
  • Open to the dining area
  • Peninsula in white quartz over patterned cement tile
  • Blue and white tile on the seated side only
  • Walnut-grain fronts under a white quartz worktop
  • White metro-tile splashback and a stainless hood
  • Round marble table with dark bentwood chairs

03Timber and white

A narrow study lined with full-height white wardrobes with routed timber pulls, an open shelved bay of ornaments, and a bamboo desk against the curtained window.
  • Full-height timber headboard wall
  • Strip parquet to the study
  • Routed timber pulls to handleless white wardrobes
  • Open timber cubbies under the galley worktop
  • Timber dish-rack cabinet beside a louvred window
  • White lacquer taking the remaining storage

04Lighting and fittings

The same bedroom seen from the doorway, alabaster wall lights recessed into the timber panelling and grey curtains drawn back from a full-width window.
  • Cove-lit bedroom ceiling
  • Alabaster wall lights recessed into the panelling
  • Copper dome pendant over the breakfast counter
  • Copper wire pendant over the study desk
  • Walnut wall-hung vanity with a vessel basin
  • Frameless glass screen dividing off the shower

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