Cuba Street Apartment by Honour Creative

Cuba Street Apartment

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This elegant, custom designed storage solution in an inner city apartment provides a place for many things and for the people who own it, adds something brave and deeply personal to a space already rich with character. The overlapping characteristics of Industrial and Japanese aesthetics, identified in the brief, are simple forms based on functionality and authentic, honest materials. Industrial adds a connection to urban living and exposed structure. Japanese contributes a refinement, fine details, contrast of dark and light, geometry in pattern and with the use of screens, walls that are not walls. The storage space is highly functional, carefully integrating into the existing architecture, is uncluttered and full of bold, confident, artful and interesting detail.

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Bedroom Storage Industrial Design Residential Interior Spatial Design Wardrobe

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Honour Creative
Bonny Beattie

A striking blend of Industrial and Japanese aesthetics, the Cuba Street Apartment features a custom-designed storage solution that enhances urban living with functional elegance and artistic detail, completed in 2018.

The overlapping characteristics of Industrial and Japanese aesthetics, identified in the brief, are simple forms based on functionality and authentic, honest materials. Industrial adds a connection to urban living and exposed structure. Japanese contributes a refinement, fine details, contrast of dark and light, geometry in pattern and with the use of screens, walls that are not walls.

The storage space is highly functional, carefully integrating into the existing architecture, is uncluttered and full of bold, confident, artful and interesting detail.

Completed: 2018
Building style: Industrial

3.0K0h 30m

Wardrobes can be so much more than a rail!

This one includes a pull-down hanger with internal drawers, shallow drawers for handbags and a long-items section... all with beautifully detailed ply cabinetry on the inside and sleek black lacquer on the outside

Seamless detail. This cavity slider slots in between the two elements of the storage unit and offers a warm and interesting material contrast against black lacquer when closed but tucks neatly away allowing the hallway and bedroom to be unified.

Great manufacturers add another level of joyous detail. I literally got tears in my eyes when we did the workshop inspection pre-install and I saw this drawer detail.

To find out more about this project or to discover how we can achieve similar results for your residential interior design, please complete our online contact form or call Frances Fraser on 027 474 9191, email frances@honourcreative.com.

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“During 2009/2010 it was decided that the existing Ronald McDonald House in Wellington needed to be demolished and a brand new facility built. The Board was looking at a $15 million project and we needed to make this 34 bedroom House into a very special home!As a Trust Board Member of Ronald McDonald House Wellington and on the Interior Design Team for the new build, the CEO Lesley Slieker and I wished to engage a Wellington based Interior Designer to lead us through the project. In December 2011, we procured the services of a newly qualified Frances Fraser. We knew instantly that Frances was the one to join the two of us on this momentous journey, and what would be a massive undertaking. Frances came from a graphic design background and had recently graduated with a Graduate Diploma in Design with Distinction from Massey University in Wellington. She came to us with a number of valuable contacts and lots of innovative ideas!! Frances listened to the significant brief for the project and began to interpret this into design schemes and ultimately reality for us. Frances was always a few steps ahead of us and always come to our meetings well prepared and ‘creative juices’ flowing. Frances has the ability to not only deliver professional concepts through to reality but work effectively in a team so that all our strengths could be capitalised on. Frances kept all our interior design subcontractors and suppliers well supported, keeping them in the loop of our deadlines and making sure they had everything they needed to complete their work. Maintaining professional and frequent communication allowed us to be kept up to date with the progress and assured that all targets were met. We thoroughly enjoyed working with Frances and that was a wonderful bonus. The new Ronald McDonald House was a challenging but hugely rewarding project of significance for hundreds of future families and Wellington as a city, we needed to get it right! I would have no hesitation in recommending Frances Fraser for Interior Design work big or small – residential or commercial. Personally, I wish her every success as she embarks on her next journey and designing and creating wonderful spaces for her clients.”

LETITIA MONTFORD, Trust Board Member Ronald McDonald House Wellington and McDonald’s Franchisee