Monochromatic, matte and minimalist. Guy & Jules Sebastian’s new city up to date kitchen is grand in scale and constructed to impress with its architectural attraction and excessive finish end.
Guy and Jules Sebastian are a classy energy couple who want no introduction throughout the panorama of Australian music and leisure, in addition to philanthropy. They’ve been buddies of Freedom Kitchens for a number of years, and thru The Sebastian Foundation, we work collectively to renovate kitchens in native shelters and refuges, creating brighter areas for folks in instances of want.
Having beforehand designed a kitchen for the Sebastian’s personal former vacation dwelling in Gerroa, we’re now proud to unveil all the small print of their model new Freedom Kitchen in Maroubra – which is on a complete different degree!
The Project
Guy and Jules bought the five-bedroom Maroubra dwelling at public sale 5 years in the past, however later selected to demolish the unique home so they may construct their dream dwelling from the bottom up. They enlisted Joe Snell architects to assist them map out the blueprint and profit from the beneficiant 1341 sqm block which boasts ocean views, plus a pool and tennis courtroom within the again yard.
The Vision
As one of the crucial vital rooms in the home, the imaginative and prescient for the kitchen house was to create a smooth, open-plan centrepiece, consistent with the ultra-contemporary model of your entire home. A key function of their construct is the atrium, which floods the kitchen and residing space with pure daylight, and the design of the kitchen wanted to attract upon the advantages of this to full impact.
Guy’s transient to Freedom Kitchens was to carry this aesthetic imaginative and prescient to life, while guaranteeing their kitchen has probably the most practical and environment friendly format for his or her household. Guy and Jules additionally wished to create a real ‘entertainer kitchen’ with the aptitude to host a lot of household and buddies, and embody a butler’s pantry to cover away mess.
For their home equipment, Guy and Jules had just a few further items to slot in than the common household kitchen. They clearly take their meals and wine severely, as a full-size wine fridge and devoted dry-aged meat fridge was on the checklist. Other main home equipment that they had chosen included a big French door fridge by SubZero, plus two ovens and a cooktop vary by Gaggenau.
Plenty of storage, particularly drawers, was vital to Jules, while conserving the look of the joinery smooth. Guy and Jules had been additionally set on darkish and up to date cabinetry, to enrich the opposite city industrial kind supplies deliberate for the house, corresponding to concrete flooring and partitions.
The Design Solution
The start line for Freedom Kitchens was to nail the kitchen format, guaranteeing that the design might incorporate all the pieces that Guy and Jules envisioned.
To this finish, the Freedom Kitchens designer modified the plan for the house right into a extra open, L-shaped format. The beneficiant 3.8m x 1.5m deep butler’s pantry was positioned parallel to the kitchen, and given two entry factors, to create the perfect sense of circulation and connectedness.
The smooth joinery showcases cupboards from Freedom Kitchen’s Designer varywithin the color Supa Black. Its silky easy pure matte end has anti-fingerprint properties – a useful function for conserving their cabinetry wanting clear, with their younger boys. The cleverly hidden, built-in Peak handles additionally work to maintain the look smooth, streamlined and clear from finger marks.
The cabinetry was meticulously measured to accommodate their fridge with a very flush end, together with the aspect by aspect ovens.
Their wine fridge and dry-aged meat fridges got distinguished positions in view from the eating house, to showcase them as speaking factors when entertaining.
The gorgeous centrepiece of the kitchen is the assertion island bench, which has been designed to be so long as doable throughout the house.
Measuring in at an enormous 5.6m lengthy, it includes a U-shaped overhang to permit seating not solely on the lengthy aspect, but additionally round each ends, seating as much as 12 folks – the final word entertainer island!
A big island bench additionally presents alternative for additional storage, so a lot of soft-close drawers and compartment trays have been included beneath. Despite the abundance of drawers, the Freedom Kitchens designer has cleverly saved the smooth look of two drawers the place there may be actually 3, by placing hidden Internal Drawers into the highest ones.
These are basically a ‘drawer within a drawer’ so externally it appears like one, however internally it includes a cutlery drawer on prime of the larger backside drawer for plates.
The floor chosen for the island bench to current a uncooked industrial edge is Caesarstone®’s Rugged Concrete: a sturdy engineered stone which options stunning gray textural patterns, and a tough matte floor. Installed by Form-Riteit has been completed with a daring 100mm mitred edge.
The island homes the Vario gasoline cooktop vary by Gaggenaubreak up with induction Teppanyaki plates. In conserving with the smooth aesthetics, it additionally boasts a hidden downdraft air flow, which rises elegantly out of the benchtop on the contact of a button.
A deep Oliveri sink with Franke tapware have additionally been included into the island benchtop, permitting Guy and Jules to face the skin views or folks seated on the bench whereas utilizing the sink.
On the opposite aspect of the kitchen, Caesartstone in Jet Black has been chosen for the rear benchtop, matching superbly with the Supa Black cabinetry above.
Accessing the huge butler’s pantry is a design spotlight.
There is a hidden door at one finish, and a second hid entrance behind pantry doorways in the midst of the kitchen, eliminating have to stroll round.
A glance contained in the pantry proves it to be simply as interesting as the primary kitchen.
For a constant look, the identical Supa Black cupboards have been used, however damaged up with some industrial model open body shelving, utilizing Freedom Kitchen’s 2020 Black Alumin with broadline glass cabinets. These are excellent for issues that you really want on show, like meals jars, cookbooks, and even just a little décor for further model factors.
The butler’s pantry benchtop can be the proper dwelling for his or her barista model espresso machine in addition to the microwave, conserving the benchtops clear in the primary kitchen. A second sink and built-in dishwasher within the butler’s pantry additionally serves to maintain mess hidden.
For most practicality on this practical house, the benchtops and splashback function Caesarstone in Noble Grey – lighter in tone than the benches in the primary kitchen, it retains the butler’s just a little brighter for meals prep and clean-up.
With its lofty excessive ceilings, atrium lighting and concrete industrial attraction, Guy and Jules Sebastian now have a surprising assertion kitchen which makes probably the most of their architectural imaginative and prescient. The scale, tones and textures used of their kitchen creates influence which might have been misplaced on this house if it wasn’t designed to have such presence.
The finish result’s a standout kitchen match not just for fabulous entertaining, but additionally for creating particular recollections, as the center of the house for this stunning household.
