Classic touches, an improved layout and pops of colour add vitality to this elegant holiday pad for Silvia Kurniady and family. ROSSARA JAMIL highlights the interesting aspects of its design.
"Shapes, colours and textures jazz up the living area. Eddy unifi ed these details with a colour palette of grey, blue and yellow."
When Indonesian businesswoman Silvia Kurniady needed an interior designer for her family’s W holiday home in Singapore, she didn’t have to look hard to find someone she could trust: Eddy Kuswandi, design director of Enoch ID, happens to be a long-time friend of hers.
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Metallic finishes, such as this customised wallcovering, imbue a sense of luxury.
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The furnishings boast unique details that are bound to spark curiosity and interest.
An Indonesian family of four HOME Four-bedroom apartment at Mount Vernon Road SIZE 1,302sqf
To overcome these issues, he levelled the balcony floor with the living area to combine the two spaces. Now, they could accommodate plush armchairs, a sofa and a dining set. The area becomes one large space, seamless in style and perfect for entertaining. Opening up the kitchen and shifting its entrance also allows more natural light to flow in. One of the standout design ideas here is the faux fireplace. A sliding door to the bedrooms and a wall feature flank the fireplace, creating symmetry in the living area.
One bedroom features porcelain blue and white wallcovering, complemented by furnishings in muted colours. Eddy also designed a pull-out bed so that more family members could sleep over.
It may look like an art piece, but this wall feature also hides the television when it is not in use. The glass door below was customised to look like fan-shaped metal grilles. The fan motif is seen on other artworks throughout the home as well.
A slim bed frame dressed in textured fabric enhances the elegance of the master bedroom.
Splashes of blue brighten up the neutral colours in the master bedroom. Here, too, there is a focus on symmetry with the use of mouldings and matching furnishings.
For the master bedroom, he picked out darker shades of the palette to give it a more restful ambience for sleep. To create a larger space, he merged it with an adjacent bedroom. “During the design process, Eddy told me not to visit, and that it would be a surprise for me,” says Silvia. “I was very surprised indeed! He had prepared everything for me, even down to small items like the laundry detergent and noodles,” she says. “The style is totally different from my home back in Indonesia. What I like most is the warm, cosy and unique feel.”
