Umbra House

A heritage home reinterpreted through dark materiality, art collecting, and deeply personal living.

The brief called for a home that felt both elevated and inhabited, one that could hold a serious art collection alongside the warmth of everyday life. The result moves fluidly between moods; from the dramatic blackened marble bar and brooding study with its built-in aquarium, to the soft, sun-drenched kitchen wrapped in sweeping book matched stone.

Throughout, dark stained oak joinery grounds each room while stone becomes the narrative thread. A luminous powder room marble vanity, a storm veined bar, a painterly kitchen bench that shifts with the light. Herringbone timber floors, a deep navy stair runner, and a crystal chandelier anchoring the entry speak to a reverence for the home's original bones, reframed entirely for contemporary living.

Furniture and objects were selected with the same deliberateness as the artworks they share walls with.

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Elisa Watson
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