Interior Design,
Double Bay

Double Bay carries a particular kind of ease. Its harbour foreshore, Steyne Park, Blackburn Gardens and the ferry wharf give the suburb a genuinely relaxed, cosmopolitan character despite being one of Sydney's most prestigious addresses. The housing stock reflects that mix: grand harbourfront residences, elegant apartment buildings from several eras, and semi-detached homes tucked into the streets around the William Street and Cross Street shopping precinct. Clients here tend to want interiors that feel as effortless as the suburb itself, refined without being showy, comfortable enough for everyday family life and considered enough for entertaining.

Emily Webster, principal designer at The Style Workshop, has spent 17 years designing residential interiors for clients across Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and Lower North Shore. That experience translates directly to Double Bay's particular mix of apartment living and grand family homes, each with its own demands around light, outlook and the practicalities of harbourside properties.

The approach at TSW is built on restraint and intention. Every design decision is made in service of the client's brief and the way the home is actually lived in, never for the sake of decoration. The result is a space that feels personal, considered, and entirely suited to its address.

Working with Double Bay homes

Apartments in Double Bay often come with generous harbour or district views, and the design challenge is to frame and honour that outlook rather than compete with it. This usually means a more restrained material and colour palette, furniture layouts that keep sightlines open, and window treatments chosen specifically to manage Sydney's coastal light without dulling the view.

For the suburb's larger freestanding and semi-detached homes, the brief is often about balancing formal entertaining spaces with genuinely liveable family areas, a combination that requires careful zoning and a considered approach to storage, joinery and finishes that will wear well over time.

The Style Workshop manages all of this through a thorough discovery phase, a clear design concept, and a considered refinement process, resulting in a Double Bay home that feels both elevated and entirely comfortable to live in.