Kenmore Residence · Perth
The entry did not introduce the home. It set the standard.
CONTEMPORARY RESIDENCE
The brief
Entirely and only theirs.
The clients came from the world of construction. They knew the market, they knew the finishes, and they knew exactly what they did not want. What they brought to LLP Design was simple: a home that was entirely and only theirs.
The response was a contemporary residence with Mediterranean warmth running through it, furnished entirely with custom designed and imported pieces that exist nowhere else. Each one sourced, specified and made for this home and no other.
The entry foyer
Conviction, from the first step.
The foyer announces the residence with a conviction the rest of the home is obliged to honour. A custom imported chandelier descends through the double-height void with architectural authority, setting the terms for every room that follows.
The walls are hand-finished in pewter Venetian plaster, a surface that shifts with the light. Carved timber entry doors and a sculptural staircase establish the grammar of the house, while a geometric upholstered chair and zebra hide rug introduce the layering of texture and provenance that runs through every room.
The semi-formal lounge
Edited, not assembled.
The foyer opens directly into the semi-formal lounge, a room that rewards the scale of the entry rather than retreating from it.
Custom furnishings sourced through LLP Design and the Luis La Pegna stores give the room its character: pieces drawn from international suppliers and specified for this home alone. A sculptural coffee table anchors the seating, and designer lighting from the global sourcing programme completes a room that reads as edited rather than assembled.
Sourced, specified and made for this home and no other.
The kitchen and dining
Built for entertaining.
The open-plan kitchen and dining is designed for the kind of entertaining that begins at the island and ends well after midnight, with room to move, room to seat a crowd and room for the room to breathe.
Custom joinery and tailored finishes carry the language of the entry through the house, while the dining setting, styled for ceremony and scaled for family, holds its own as a destination.
The dining room
From long lunch to dinner party.
Relaxed enough for a long casual lunch, resolved enough to dress for a dinner party without trying. Custom table settings, considered florals, coral sculptures and candlelight show one version of what the room can be.
The Mediterranean influence in the brief is most at home here, where the atmosphere shifts between the informal and the celebratory without the room changing at all.
The underground bar
The brief asked for a mancave. The answer was a private members club.
Below the pool level, a fully fitted bar occupies the most theatrical room in the house. Windows cut directly into the pool wall bring water and light into the room in equal measure, an idea that belongs to neither interior design nor architecture alone, and is all the better for it.
Outside, the alfresco entertaining area is resort-scaled and conceived as an extension of the interior, with the pool framed and finished as a landscape element in its own right.
The palette
Iron & fuchsia.
LLP Design built the palette around the home's wrought iron and carved timber: zebra hide and a geometric jacquard in the entry, a fuchsia and purple Greek key rug with amethyst velvet and gold-stripe cushions in the living room, and studded brown leather, soft grey voile and square-cut crystal in the dining room.
Project details
How a project begins
Three steps, before any work begins.
How we work
One studio. One vision. One point of contact.
Total responsibility
Design, trades and delivery, managed by LLP Design from first sketch to handover.
A fixed design fee
Agreed before work begins. You will never be surprised by a cost.
Your written approval
Nothing proceeds without it. Every selection and every change is signed off first.
Progress payments
Tied to the build and staged through the contract, so trades are paid as the work is completed.
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