Pyrmont Apartment in Green and Bronze

The layout barely moved. The bath stays in the same corner it occupied before, the vanity runs along the same wall, and the room is the same size it always was. What changed is every surface in it.

Dark green glazed subway tile covers the walls and wraps the exposed face of the bath, and the mirror above the vanity runs wall to wall and up to the ceiling, so the tile reads twice. The band of brass-toned tile sitting directly behind the basin is the one break in the green, and an LED strip concealed under the mirror cabinets washes it from above.

The vanity is a black timber-look unit floating clear of the floor with a stone-look top, a round copper-toned vessel basin and brass wall-mounted tapware. Floating it keeps the grey speckled floor tile running unbroken under the whole room, which is what stops the dark walls closing in.

The second bathroom uses a different tile in the same register. A vertical finger mosaic in bronze, copper and charcoal runs from the floor to the ceiling on every wall, including inside the shower, so there is no tile line where the wet area stops and the rest of the room starts.

A frameless glass screen and a wall-hung pan keep the floor clear, which matters in a room this narrow. Brass carries through in the shower fittings, the tapware and the shelf rail, and two round black wall lights sit either side of the mirror at eye height rather than overhead, so the light lands on faces instead of the top of the vanity.

The floor is the same grey speckled tile as the main bathroom. Using one floor across both rooms is a small decision that does a lot of work: it ties two different wall treatments together and gives each room a lighter base to sit on.

The kitchen was rebuilt in the same materials. Charcoal timber-look joinery replaces the cream gloss, a dark stone-look benchtop replaces the pale stone, and light oak-look boards replace the beige floor tile that ran through the living areas.

The old peninsula with bar stools became a full island carrying the sink and a brass mixer, with the cooking run set against the wall behind it and a green glazed finger tile splashback under a lit shelf line. A full-height bank of joinery on the return wall takes the fridge and the oven, with brass bar handles matching the tapware in both bathrooms.

That splashback is the link. It is the same green family as the main bathroom two rooms away, which is what makes a dark apartment read as one scheme rather than three separate jobs.