Timeless Sophistication – Point House by Decus Interiors

As a contemporary beachside home, Point House boasts elegant textures and sophisticated layering. Decus Interiors has defined the home’s internal spaces using considered and enduring materials, celebrating colour, light and movement. Weaving polarising elements that create a distinctive interior interplay, Point House reinterprets the conventional image of a beachside residence.

Located in the Sydney suburb of Tamarama, Point House is infused with a refined elegance, which is threaded throughout each considered moment of the interior space. Designed by Decus Interiors, Point House is a renewed take on the traditional homage of a beachside home, instead opting for surprising interpretations and interactions with the picturesque surrounding landscape. “This is actually the second time that we’ve designed the house,” says Alexandra Church, Founder and Managing Director of Decus Interiors. “We were originally commissioned by the first owners about six years ago to work on the interiors of the home. We were then approached two and a half years ago by the new owners who wanted to really reimagine it for themselves and their children and their grandchildren.”

Located in the Sydney suburb of Tamarama, Point House is infused with a refined elegance, which is threaded throughout each considered moment of the interior space.

Decus Interiors has personalised the existing space by approaching the home as unique to its occupants. As the clients came from a formal and traditional suburb, Decus Interiors had the opportunity to experiment with a more contemporary palette within the new home. Whilst the interior is opposite to the bright and breezy beach home traditionally seen within buildings along the water, the interior spaces seem to breathe in synchronisation with the natural environment, as light plays an integral role in developing mood, ambiance and dynamic movement. The colour palette is led by the dark joinery, as well as the pockets of shadows created as the intense light moves throughout the house.

The main feature of the home is its enduring and tactile materiality. “One of the things that I do love about the materiality is that over the last six years it has actually endured,” explains Alexandra. “It looks just as fresh as it did when we first worked on the project and built it, so I think that sort of speaks volumes about the timelessness of certain finishes.” This flexibility of material meant that certain elements of the original home could be preserved. “A lot of the dark joinery, the granite and the stone, it is just as special as it was the first time.”

The refined interior spaces feature a depth of colour play and immersion.

The refined interior spaces feature a depth of colour play and immersion. “Our role is to really weave together polarity and opposites in a way that can be kind of quite harmonious,” reflects Alexandra. “You can create a sense of luxury and high-end or sophistication through layering of materiality, so it’s a mixture of textures and finishes and colours.” Hard and soft internal edges create moments of playful interchange throughout each room, bringing out a surprising interpretation of space. The back and forth between opposite elements personalise the home, celebrating curiosity and modernity. Alexandra explains, “it was really about marrying barefoot-sandy-feet with being able to have a dinner party for 20 people every Friday night.”

The reinvention of Point House has been sophisticatedly executed by Decus Interiors, with spirited and deliberate purpose. By having the chance to return to the space that originally established their firm, Alexandra reflects, “it’s been really, really, really fulfilling to be able to come back and give it new life for a new family, which will hopefully be their forever home.”