Take a look at how the designer Alexandra Donohoe Church used earthy tones and decor to bring her oceanic inspirations for this home to life.

Turning inspiration into reality using earthy tones

Even though Australia doesn’t have a particularly extensive coastline, Sydney’s east coast is known for being a vibrant, lively place, known for its amazing beaches and affluent harbor-side suburbs, where interior designer Alexandra Donohoe Church had the privilege to work on this particular project.

She chose to take inspiration from the home’s oceanic surroundings, making the usage of earthy tones a must-have for the decor and furniture, as they make us reminisce about the sea, the sand, and nature as a whole.

Mixing comfort with calmness

However, she didn’t let the geographical novelties that surrounded the home be her only focus, as she also wanted to make sure it was a comforting, safe, and calming space to live in.

Starting with the starway, Donohoe Church chose to use European oak to immediately establish fine, earthy tones that are being further brought out by other neutral colors, namely greys, whites, and beige, that go out of their way to bring out the comforting feel she is striving for.

A living room you would want to “live” in

As for the living room, Danohoe Church chose a beautiful light-brown sofa, paired with a white armchair and cream rug, keeping the earthy tones present in this room, especially with the inclusion of the log-like side table that lies beside the sofa.

With all of these natural themes present in the room, it’s clear it truly is meant to be somewhere the client and his family, that includes two school-aged children, can relax, socialize amongst themselves or with friends, and gaze a bit at the garden that lies outside.

Soothing stress away using a seaside view.

This spectacular view of the ocean is also a must-have in this home, since it’s the true source of all of Danohoe Church’s inspiration, and the reason behind her choice in earthy tones in furniture like the ones we see in this dining area.

Simple, yet comfortable chairs that make you feel as if you teleported to the beach are being paired with this elegant marble table, to further bring out that relaxing, seaside feel that we’ve been chasing since the very beginning.

Bringing out relaxation with earthy tones

Now in the main bedroom, we can see that the theme hasn’t changed, still clinging on to the same feeling of relaxation and safety that Danahoe Church has been chasing since the beginning of her work on this project.

Everything here, from the bed, the bedside table, the armchair, rug, and even the decor all bring out the same sense of unity wth nature like we’ve seen in the rest of the rooms up until now, especially like the dining room, that also mixed in the gorgeous seaside with the earthy tones present in the room.

Marble-based luxury

For the main bedroom´s ensuite and powder room, Danohoe Church chose to use mainly marble-based furniture to bring forth a more luxurious feel to these two areas, while maintaining the same earthy tones we have seen so far.

The powder room is not as bright as most of the house, yet it still brings you the same comforting safety Church yearned for, while maintaining its mystique and elegance through the spectacular usage of darker tones of green and lighter tones like beige.

In the main bedroom’s ensuite, elegance is still one of the primary themes we notice at a first glance, although it’s done in a much different fashion than in the powder room, namely through the usage of lighter colors and themes, and the focus on much more lighter earthy tones, as we can mostly tell from the stools and the walls.

A passageway between dinner and nature

To end our overview of this project, we wanted to take a look at the kitchen, where the combination of soft marble and the earthy tones we have seen throughout this project is once again present in a very noticeable way, making the sense of nature once again a highly present theme in this room, aided by the usage of plants in the decor and the open door to the garden.

The name of this project is “Dancing on the Ceiling”, which, according to Donohoe Church, is named after the Lionel Richie song, since this project is a choreographed dance with an unconscious connection between a body and its natural environment.

With Donohoe Church, we learned how we can use earthy tones to connect interiors with nature and our surroundings, creating truly marvelous projects.

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