A riverside apartment at Crown Reach, its rooms lined throughout in birch-faced ply. This study looks at how colour, used sparingly against that calm natural material, sets the tone and hierarchy of each space.
Birch-faced ply, carried through the apartment.
Placed to lead the eye
Colour is relative: a deep red reads at its most intense against the calm of the natural birch-ply joinery. That relationship is expressed with clear intent. The red is placed deliberately to build a hierarchy that draws the eye and leads you through the rooms.

Placed, not scattered
Each move of colour does a job – marking a threshold, warming a recess, drawing the eye to a view. Kept few and deliberate, they give the plan its punctuation.

Framed by ply
Because the ply is joinery as much as lining, colour and frame are detailed together – a coloured face set into a run, a lining behind an opening, a threshold that changes tone. The frame is built to hold the colour, not fitted around it afterwards.


