New Apartment Fitout — Military Road, Willoughby

Name: InsideOut Joinery & Renos
Address: 4 Riverpark Drive, Liverpool, NSW, 2170, AU
Telephone: 02 5000 0402
Price range: $$
Rating: 5.0

Willoughby apartment kitchen in Dulux Creamy White polyurethane with a stone benchtop and full-height stone splashback

A new apartment joinery fitout on Military Road, Willoughby — the whole job in polyurethane, Dulux Creamy White matt, with AC Stone Viola Rosse (AC1012) benchtops. Kitchen with a matching stone splashback and a 45° sharknose fingerpull throughout, a cabinet built to house the water unit, and handleless push-to-open hallway pantries with Titus inner slimline drawers beside a stone study desk.

This was a new fitout in an apartment on Military Road, Willoughby. The unit came to us as a bare shell — concrete walls, no kitchen, and the building's water system tanks sitting in the open right next to where the kitchen had to go. Everything here was built into that. The whole job is polyurethane in Dulux Creamy White, matt. There is no hardware on show anywhere, but the two ends of the apartment get there differently: the kitchen runs a 45° sharknose fingerpull machined into the doors and drawer faces, carried across the integrated dishwasher panel as well so the line runs unbroken along the front. The hallway pantries are handleless push-to-open — no pull and no fingerpull at all, just flat fronts in a walkway where anything protruding would catch. The kitchen benchtop is AC Stone Viola Rosse (AC1012), with a matching splashback in the same stone carried up the wall, so the veining runs through as one piece rather than stopping at the bench. The water unit needed to stay accessible but out of sight, so we built a cabinet around it that lines up with the rest of the run and reads as ordinary joinery from the hallway. Inside the hallway pantries are Titus inner slimline drawers, which keep the storage usable without eating into the walkway. Next to those, a benchtop in the same Viola Rosse is set into the joinery to act as a study desk, so the two ends of the apartment tie together.

Materials, finishes and key details

Polyurethane finish throughout the job, Dulux Creamy White in a matt finish
45° sharknose fingerpull to the kitchen doors and drawer faces — including the integrated dishwasher panel, so the pull runs unbroken across the front
Handleless push-to-open hallway storage pantries, with no pull or fingerpull on the fronts at all
Titus inner slimline drawers inside the hallway pantries
AC Stone Viola Rosse (AC1012) benchtop to the kitchen, with a matching AC Stone Viola Rosse (AC1012) splashback carried up the wall
AC Stone Viola Rosse (AC1012) benchtop set into the hallway joinery to act as a study desk, the same stone as the kitchen
Purpose-built cabinet housing the water unit, kept accessible and concealed

How each room or storage zone was resolved.

Kitchen & Stone

A new kitchen built into a bare shell — polyurethane in Dulux Creamy White matt, with a 45° sharknose fingerpull to the doors and drawer faces and across the integrated dishwasher panel. AC Stone Viola Rosse (AC1012) benchtop with a matching splashback in the same stone carried up the wall so the veining runs through as one piece.

Willoughby apartment kitchen with stone benchtop and full-height stone splashback

Hallway Storage Pantries

Storage pantries built along the hallway, handleless push-to-open with nothing protruding into the walkway, and fitted with Titus inner slimline drawers so the storage works hard inside.

Hallway storage pantry with Titus inner slimline drawers in Willoughby

Stone Study Desk

A stone benchtop set into the joinery beside the hallway pantries to act as a study desk, in the same AC Stone Viola Rosse as the kitchen and the same Dulux Creamy White polyurethane as the rest of the job.

Stone benchtop study desk beside hallway pantries in a Willoughby apartment

Water Unit Housing

A cabinet built around the building's water unit so it stays accessible for servicing but disappears into the joinery run the rest of the time, finished to match everything else.

Cabinet housing the water unit in a Willoughby apartment

Finished rooms, joinery details and the final result.

Wide view of a Willoughby apartment kitchen in Dulux Creamy White polyurethane with stone benchtop — The full kitchen run with the stone on — polyurethane in Dulux Creamy White matt, 45° sharknose fingerpull throughout.

Stone benchtop return in a Willoughby apartment kitchen — The benchtop return, with the stone edge carried down the end of the run.

Stone benchtop built in as a study desk beside hallway pantries in Willoughby — A stone benchtop set into the hallway joinery to act as a study desk, in the same stone as the kitchen.

Handleless push-to-open hallway pantry with Titus inner slimline drawers in a Willoughby apartment — Hallway storage pantry — handleless push-to-open fronts, with Titus inner slimline drawers doing the work inside.

Cabinet built to house the water unit in a Willoughby apartment — The cabinet built around the water unit — accessible when the door is open, invisible when it is closed.

Kitchen cabinetry installed with the integrated dishwasher panel open in Willoughby — Appliance cabinetry open during the fitout — the integrated dishwasher takes the same sharknose fingerpull as the doors either side.

Kitchen cabinetry installed in a Willoughby apartment before the benchtop — Cabinetry installed and lined up, with the benchtop still to come.

Installed kitchen cabinetry in a Willoughby apartment before stone — The same run from the hallway side, cabinetry complete.

Willoughby apartment kitchen cabinetry in place before the stone benchtop — The kitchen with cabinetry set out and the drawer bank in, before the stone.

Kitchen and water unit cabinetry before the stone benchtop in Willoughby — Kitchen and water-unit cabinetry together, before the benchtop went down.

Hallway joinery in a Willoughby apartment before the stone went on — The hallway with the joinery in and the floor still protected, before the stone went on.

How the finished project improved storage, flow and finish quality.

A bare shell with exposed water tanks became a finished apartment — kitchen, hallway storage and a study desk all in the same Dulux Creamy White polyurethane and the same stone, with no visible hardware anywhere and the water unit boxed in and out of sight.

InsideOut Joinery & Renos is a family-run custom joinery and renovation business based in Liverpool, Sydney NSW 2170, serving homeowners Sydney-wide. Call 02 5000 0402 or email info@insideoutjoinery.au. One point of contact — we organise and manage every trade on your job, with quick turnaround and 12 years of experience. Licensed contractor — licence 383725C, ABN 62 912 909 739.

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