Interior Style - Light Meets Dark
If an interior that exudes elegance is your goal, you’ll find our Light Meets Dark theme hard to resist. This carefully curated look uses crisp white walls and reflective surfaces as a backdrop to showcase striking features, such as intricately veined marble, richly grained timber, stunning light fixtures, and bold furniture shapes.
The focus is on quality and timelessness, with beautiful detailing at every turn, be it sculptural kitchen tap or a wall of exquisite mosaic tiles that elevates a hardworking room like a laundry. Meanwhile, comfort is assured with plump, upholstered seating and tactile silk rugs that foster a sense of togetherness and relaxation.
“A crisp white and neutral base creates the perfect canvas for pops of petrol blue, rich forest green and charcoal to shine, which can be a great way to showcase your favourite, darker pieces.”
INTERIOR DESIGN MANAGER, JESSICA HODGES
Create the look
Exterior colours
Use the power of contrast to add drama to your façade by combining deep, earthy tones of chocolate and charcoal with taupe and pale grey across your rendered surfaces, and rich timber roof and window detailing. For added luxury, tile your front pier in serene cream or greige.
Interior flooring
Set a luxurious foundation in your main living spaces with chevron or herringbone timber flooring or high-gloss, marble-look floor tiles. Introduce softness with plush silk rugs or textural cut-and-loop pile styles in a solid or stippled colour. For bedrooms and cosy spaces, consider fine loop pile carpets in a gentle neutral like soft grey or greige.
Feature lighting
Lighting plays an art-role with this look. Seek out sculptural, modern styles in glass and aged brass, finely woven black pendants that create intriguing interplays of shadow and light, decorative wall sconces, and shapely hanging lights that instantly capture the eye.
Kitchen styling
Evoke a natural feel in your kitchen with two-tone timber and white joinery, combining flat-face panelling with sections of v-groove panelling for a touch of texture, creamy stone benchtops, and a window splashback overlooking the garden.
Or make a statement with a bolder palette of basalt grey joinery, thick marble-effect benchtops, and marble mosaic tiles on your splashbacks.
Complete the look with an oversized sculptural timber pendant over your kitchen island, and soft, padded bar stools in a look-at-me hue like navy or black.
Bathroom bliss
Make your bathrooms havens of relaxation with layers of elegant marble- or limestone-effect tiles running from floor to ceiling. You might, for example, combine basketweave marble mosaics on the walls and in the shower area, with simple square or rectangular tiles in a harmonising finish across the floors.
Inject a crisp, modern edge with under-mounted basins, gunmetal or brushed nickel tapware and joinery handles, and clean-lined wall sconces in black or white.
See the Light Meets Dark look on display
Astoria Grand 54
Meridian Estate, Clyde North
Canterbury Grand Atrium 47
Alamora Estate, Tarneit
Canterbury Grand Deluxe Atrium 50
Berwick Waters Estate, Clyde North
Matisse 33
Orana Estate, Clyde North
Rothbury Grand Atrium 50
Peppercorn Hill Estate, Donnybrook
Rothfield Grand Deluxe Theatre Atrium 54
Smiths Lane Estate, Clyde North
Rothwell 29
Woodlea Estate, Aintree
Rothwell 29
Eliston Estate, Clyde
Sorrento Grand Deluxe Atrium Balcony 54
Botanical Estate, Mickleham
Sorrento Grand Deluxe Theatre Atrium 48
Mt. Atkinson Estate, TruganinaView the light meets dark gallery
Furniture & Styling
Centre your styling around comfort and luxury, with simple, elegant sofas and seating, topped with scatter cushions in chenille, velvet, silk and faux fur. Add softness with lavish rugs, arched mirrors, an oval dining table, a round coffee table in striking black or grey marble, and a curved bench at the foot of the bed.
Ensure every room has a captivating focal point, be it an intricately tiled wall, an eye-catching work of art, a shapely light fitting, or a gorgeous, velvet-covered bedhead.
Use the walls (and even your ceiling) to bring depth and cosiness, with tongue and groove panelling, or textural, woven wallpapers.
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