Studio Work

A look at how I work — through built projects, design studies, visualisations, and the thinking that sits behind every home.

A Coastal Family Home

This family home sits amongst bushland with views out to the ocean and is deeply connected to the landscape. I worked the scheme across the living areas, bathroom and guest bedroom, drawing on the materials and colours of the site: natural timber, terrazzo, indigo, ochre. A home built to feel calm and grounded, and to age slowly with the family that lives in it.

  • Living room design direction for Seacourt — a coastal family home in Newcastle. Natural timber joinery, beach pebbles, soft neutral upholstery, and a botanical artwork referencing the surrounding bushland.

    Living Room – Mood Board

  • Living room layout plan for Seacourt showing furniture placement, circulation and sightlines. Designed to support flow and everyday family use in a coastal Newcastle home.

    Living Room – Plan

  • Living room furniture and finishes scheme for Seacourt — Jardan modular sofa upholstered in green velvet, Bremworth wool rug, indigo linen curtains, and bronze pendant lighting by Mark Designs.

    Living Room – Furniture and Finishes

  • Bathroom design direction for Seacourt — a coastal home in Newcastle. Custom timber vanity, sage green tiles, terrazzo flooring, and references drawn from the surrounding bushland and ocean.

    Bathroom – Mood Board

  • Bathroom finishes and fixtures specification for Seacourt — Fibonacci terrazzo, custom Blackbutt timber vanity, bronze Meir tapware, Kaldewei bathtub, and Acadamy Tiles mosaic detail.

    Bathroom – Finishes and Fixtures

  • Bathroom layout plan for Seacourt showing circulation, fixture placement and material zones. Designed for usability, comfort and long-term function in a Newcastle family home.

    Bathroom – Concept Plan

  • Bathroom internal elevations for Seacourt — Newcastle home renovation. Drawings developed to test material junctions, vertical proportions and fixture alignment within the space.

    Bathroom – Internal Elevations

  • Guest bedroom interior design concept for Seacourt — indigo upholstered headboard, ochre linen bedding, botanical wallpaper, and bedside lighting by Marz Designs. Designed by Oliv Interiors.

    Guest Bedroom – Concept

  • Guest bedroom finishes and styling for Seacourt — Bed Threads French flax linen, walter.g block-printed cushions, Yard Furniture timber bedside tables, and Bremworth wool carpet.

    Guest Bedroom – Selections

A Warm Contemporary Kitchen

A standalone kitchen and dining concept worked around contrast, materiality and everyday use.

  • Kitchen design mood board for a contemporary family kitchen in Newcastle. References include Australian botanicals, natural timber finishes, native art, and a deep navy and sage palette.

    Mood

  • Kitchen and dining design concept by Oliv Interiors — round timber dining table, deep navy wall, sage green panelling, and contemporary Australian botanical artwork. A residential interior design study in the Hunter region.

    Design Concept

  • Material selection board for a contemporary kitchen design — smoked oak floorboards from Royal Oak Floors, Rockcote Otsumigaki walls, Cosentino Silestone benchtop, Nagoya Mosaic-Tile splashback, and Porter's Paints Greygum joinery.

    Material Selection

Watercolour Concept

Two kitchen concepts, painted by hand. Two interpretations of the same kitchen, exploring how layout, light, and material relationships might shape the character of the space.

  • Hand-painted watercolour kitchen study by Olivia Munroe of Oliv Interiors — a private design exercise exploring natural timber joinery, neutral palette and a central island.

    Concept One

  • Hand-painted watercolour kitchen study exploring contrast and material warmth — deeper timber tones, blue tiled splashback and concrete benchtop. From the designer's private sketchbook practice.

    Concept Two

At Home

A small note from our own home in Newcastle — renovated humbly in 2022, still in work in progress. Not a project, but the place where the studio's thinking is lived day to day. Small, but enough.

  • Entry to interior designer Olivia Munroe's own home in Newcastle — vertical timber door, monstera in a white planter on a timber stump, and patterned ceramic floor tiles. A considered residential entryway in the Hunter region.

    Entry

  • Round timber dining table with antique ladder-back rush chair, sheer linen curtains and Australian native flowers in a white jug. From the Newcastle home of Oliv Interiors.

    Quiet Dining

  • Australian native flowers — banksia, kangaroo paw, eucalyptus and dahlia — arranged in a white jug beneath a blue and white delftware plate. From Olivia Munroe's home in Newcastle.

    Sunny Mornings

  • Antique rush-seated chair beside a round timber table on pine floorboards — a close detail of craft and texture in interior designer Olivia Munroe's Newcastle home.

    Texture

  • Plywood headboard with linen bedding in dusty pink, charcoal wool throw and a timber side table with ceramic mug — a quiet bedroom corner in a residential home in Newcastle.

    Bedroom Detail

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