Place In The Sun

Straight out of a Palm Springs playbook, this modernist renovation in Adelaide was a passion project for the creative owners

WORDS LISA EASEY PHOTOGRAPHY PLY ARCHITECTURE + EMILY O’BRIEN STYLING EMILY O’BRIEN

cheat sheet Who lives here Nykita and Scott Shannahan, founders of Built Furniture, with their son Ollie, five, and Mack, a Staffordshire bull terrier. Style of home A 1970s house on 952 square metres with a modern-retro revamp. Location Henley Beach in Adelaide, which is the traditional land of the Kaurna Meyunna people. Construction began in late 2020 and was finished a year later. Nykita and Scott Shannahan are co-founders of Built Furniture, a custom design business, so when they found a quirky 1970s house in Adelaide’s inner west, they had a unique vision to shape the home from the inside out. They created much of the furniture and all the joinery for the renovation, taking a hands-on approach as their own clients. “We had the know-how to bring parts…

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Inside Out (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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