A Fitzroy Art Deco Galley
A narrow apartment galley with black laminate and failing tile — modernised inside its existing footprint.
BeforeAfter- The job
- Chipped white doors on swollen carcasses, black laminate benchtops lifting at every join, cracked wall tile, and lino that had given up at the edges. In an apartment, moving any of it means moving services.
- What we did
- New handleless joinery in a warm pale oak with matching overheads, a full-length benchtop returning under the window, vertical-stack splashback tile, a single deep sink with matte black mixer, integrated task lighting under both runs, and timber-look flooring. Rewired and replumbed in place; the gas cooktop and oven were retained.
- Timeline
- Five weeks
- What it cost
- Kitchens typically $20,000–$60,000
- The result
- A galley that now reads twice as wide as it measures — with the window, the doorway and the appliances all exactly where the building put them. The kitchen was quoted inside a $95,000 apartment scope that also took in the bathroom, a full rewire and replumb, and the painting.
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