Joinery and renovations across the Eastern Suburbs
Kitchens, wardrobes, vanities and storage joinery for Eastern Suburbs apartments and semis — compact footprints, strata buildings and coastal conditions.
The Eastern Suburbs are apartment-heavy, and that sets the brief. Through Bondi, Coogee, Randwick, Bondi Junction, Double Bay and Rose Bay a large share of the work is fitting genuinely useful storage into a footprint that does not have much spare floor area to give up.
The other factor is the coast. Homes within a few streets of the water at Bondi, Bronte, Clovelly and Coogee sit in salt air, and that shows up in hardware long before it shows up in cabinetry. Hinge and runner selection matters more here than it does inland.
Storage has to earn its floor area
In a compact apartment, a 600mm-deep cabinet in the wrong place costs you a walkway. We tend to go shallower and taller — 400mm-deep full-height storage rather than 600mm at bench height — where the room cannot spare the depth.
Salt air is a hardware decision
Close to the water, standard hardware can surface-corrode within a few years. Specifying better-grade hinges and runners at quote stage costs little and is far cheaper than replacing them into finished cabinetry later.
Strata rules most of the area
Apartment work through Bondi Junction, Double Bay and Edgecliff needs owners corporation approval, and buildings frequently restrict work to weekday hours. That affects programme length, so we build it into the quote rather than the invoice.
Semis and terraces behave like the Inner West
Through Randwick, Clovelly, Bronte and Waverley there is a lot of semi and terrace stock with the same out-of-square walls. Same approach: measure on site, absorb the run-out in scribes.
Every Eastern Suburbs suburb we cover
- Bellevue Hill
- Bondi
- Bondi Junction
- Botany
- Bronte
- Centennial Park
- Clovelly
- Coogee
- Darling Point
- Double Bay
- Eastlakes
- Edgecliff
- Elizabeth Bay
- Kensington
- Kings Cross
- Kingsford
- La Perouse
- Little Bay
- Malabar
- Maroubra
- Mascot
- Moore Park
- North Bondi
- Paddington
- Point Piper
- Potts Point
- Randwick
- Rose Bay
- Rushcutters Bay
- Tamarama
- Vaucluse
- Woollahra
Projects we have finished in the Eastern Suburbs
- Custom Wardrobes — Randwick
- Vaucluse Apartment Kitchen Re-model
- Custom Storage Joinery — Mascot Dance Studio
- Kitchens across Sydney
- Wardrobes across Sydney
- Custom joinery across Sydney
- Bathrooms across Sydney
- Laundry across Sydney
- Shelving & storage across Sydney
Frequently asked questions
Does living near the beach change what joinery you would specify?
It changes the hardware more than the cabinetry. Within a few streets of the water we would specify better-grade hinges and drawer runners, because salt air reaches them through any gap and surface corrosion on a runner is not something you can fix without pulling the drawer apart.
How much storage can you actually get into a small apartment?
More than most people expect, but it comes from height rather than depth. Full-height cabinetry to a 2400mm or 2700mm ceiling roughly doubles what a bench-height run holds, and going 400mm deep instead of 600mm keeps the walkway. We work that out at measure against the actual room.
Which Eastern Suburbs do you cover?
Bondi, Bondi Junction, Randwick, Coogee, Clovelly, Bronte, Waverley, Vaucluse, Rose Bay, Double Bay, Bellevue Hill, Darling Point, Paddington, Maroubra, Kensington, Mascot and nearby.
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.