Sime Darby | Grandeur Over Three Storeys

This is a Sime Darby Property show unit — the three-storey ‘Modern Luxury Grandeur’ type — and the brief is in the name: make a family home read as grand without tipping into gloss. We kept the palette short and warm, cream stone, dark fluted timber, calacatta marble and brass, and repeated it floor to floor.

The ground floor runs as one room. A curved, fluted partition peels you from the entry into the lounge, a tiered amber-glass chandelier holds the ceiling, and the dining table — a slab of marble on brass drums — sits beside a planted stair where a birch grows up through the void. Behind it, a marble-wrapped dry kitchen does the entertaining while a wet kitchen and an arched laundry yard do the work.

Above, the house relaxes. A double-height family lounge with a deep curved sofa takes the centre of the plan, joined by a study, a football room and a pink room for the children, and a junior master. The master suite gets the full treatment: a book-matched marble panel behind the bed, a mirrored dressing wall, and a padded window seat running the length of the blinds.