Landscape Inspired – Darling Street By Cantilever Interiors

In Darling Street, on the riverside of stylish South Yarra in inner Melbourne, Cantilever Interiors delivers its trademark whole-of-home joinery design service to bring quality, function and a sleek aesthetic to the compact apartment renovation. Featuring Cantilever’s EDIT System throughout, the project harnesses the brand’s penchant for quality craftmanship, through a balanced palette inspired by the unique character of the Australian landscape.

Prioritising design, quality and sustainability, Cantilever Interiors has been delivering high-quality, hand-built joinery systems out of its Brunswick East workshop since 2006. When clients Mark and Lyn encountered Cantilever’s boutique EDIT system in Cosh Living’s showroom, “it was exactly what we were looking for,” they recall. The fifth release by Cantilever Interiors, designed in collaboration with KETT of Cosh Living, the EDIT system harnesses the natural tones of the Australian landscape, expressed through a refined materiality. The specific language of EDIT was developed by Cantilever to express those evocative Australian locations where land and water converge.

The fifth release by Cantilever Interiors, designed in collaboration with KETT of Cosh Living, the EDIT system harnesses the natural tones of the Australian landscape, expressed through a refined materiality.

On meeting with Mark and Lyn, Cantilever’s Director Travis Dean and Creative Director Kylie Forbes understood their clients’ appreciation for quality design and their expectation for enduring function and timeless appeal. They collaborated to produce a design for all the joinery within the home, which considered overall specifications, colour palette, atmosphere and systems through the kitchen, study and robes in both guest and master suites. Joinery often forms the centrepiece of any space, and so drawing on Cantilever’s long history of artisanship ensured a high-quality holistic design. “Joinery in its nature intersects function, form and spatial planning,” reflects Kylie. “Our depth of experience across many projects, working within homes and renovations to best utilise space, functionally and visually, has informed our thinking towards holistic interior design.”

The resulting design is the ideal expression of the clients’ sophisticated needs, speaking to their well-travelled experience, as well as their local pride. Utilised throughout, the EDIT system is refined yet welcoming; warm American oak veneer cabinetry lines the kitchen cabinets and cupboards, blending softly with the subtle variation of the ancient white Australian dolomite. The stone selection was particularly important for Mark and Lyn, as “the colours were just so evocative of the Australian landscape, which we love.” Hidden away in the custom liquor niche, vibrant red dolomite awaits to greet the clients at cocktail hour. Elsewhere, the stainless-steel kitchen bench curves softly into a splashback and shelf – an eye-catching detail that also offers practicality in daily use.

Utilised throughout, the EDIT system is refined yet welcoming; warm American oak veneer cabinetry lines the kitchen cabinets and cupboards, blending softly with the subtle variation of the ancient white Australian dolomite.

Displaying the coherent design language and high-quality products in Cantilever’s product group and interior design service, Darling Street exemplifies the potential for the relationship between designer and client to produce a striking, functional outcome at a whole-of-home scale.