Designing With A View

by | Aug 29, 2024 | Inspiration, Interior Design | 0 comments

If your property boasts a stunning skyline, park or harbour view, let it shine! Highlighting that water view as the centrepiece of your living room is an excellent starting point for your home’s interior design. Imagine your window as a grand cinematic screen, bringing the beauty of the outdoors into your living space.

Marylou is well-versed in designing with a view in mind and was recently featured in the Financial Review’s Domain Prestige lift-out in August 2024, where she shared her top tips on maximising views through design choices.

Throughout her career, Marylou has had the privilege of working with numerous extraordinary residences, each offering breathtaking vistas of the harbour, opera house, or lush parklands. Her talent for transforming these views into living, ever-changing artworks within the home is a testament to her expertise and experience.

If you’re fortunate enough to have a spectacular view, there are several key tips to help you maximise it throughout your space. Once the architectural design is finalised, incorporating floor-to-ceiling double-glazed glass windows or doors will beautifully frame the view. Extending the flooring from the interior to the exterior also creates a seamless transition, encouraging you and your guests to fully appreciate the incredible vistas from every angle.

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Marylou Sobel Sydney Interior Designer on site

Selecting low-lying furniture is essential for keeping the views unobstructed. Larger pieces should be chosen with care; metal and glass options are ideal for ensuring the vista remains the star attraction. A space with a breathtaking skyline or harbour view benefits from simple and sleek interior design. By minimising distractions, you and your guests can focus on the magnificent natural sights. Marylou also suggests choosing a colour palette of greens, blues, and natural tones that harmonise with the environment, helping to soften the eye and enhance the overall ambiance.

“Designing with a view, adds another dimension to the design process, another emotion that will ultimately impact the clients, and us as we consider the exterior colours, textures and sight”

– Marylou Sobel

Marylou Sobel Sydney Interior Designer on site

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Stephanie Nadel

Assosciate Interior Architect

What makes Stephanie Nadel’s success story so remarkable is that she has come so far, so fast.
Stephanie, the Associate Interior Architect at Marylou Sobel Interior Design, has gained more experience, and handled more responsibilities in the past ten years than many other design professionals take on in their careers.

Stephanie, a multi-talented full service professional, carried out a wide variety of commercial and residential design tasks while she was based in London. She worked for three prominent interior design firms, as well as on her own, and served clients around the world.

In the process, she helped complete within 12 weeks the design and installation of a penthouse suite on The World, the luxury residential yacht that circumnavigates the globe. Prior to this Stephanie lead the full refurbishment of a lavish, Grade II listed, five bedroom home in the Hampstead Garden suburbs in London.

During her five years in London, she worked with Gensler, the world’s largest collaborative design, planning and consulting firm; MoreySmith, a leading design and architecture studio, and Fiona Barratt Interiors, an award-winning luxury design firm.

Assisting with projects for those firms, launching her own residential practice, and interacting with vendors worldwide provided her with project management, creative problem solving, sourcing, technical and other skills that benefit her clients today.

Stephanie earned her Bachelor of Interior Architecture degree at the University of New South Wales.

While she is adept in several aspects of design, she’s particularly interested in the challenge of refurbishing existing spaces. “I enjoy the problem solving that’s involved with existing buildings,” she says. “Although it is always a privilege to design alongside a team to create new and innovative structures, I love creating meaningful design from older properties and taking inspiration from heritage details.”

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