Elegant Simplicity

Martin Kolarik  Home Design
Creating Simply Elegant Home Designs For Your Family
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Home Design in Sydney

home design in Sydney

Embarking on a project to build your new home is an exciting prospect for your family.

You have an opportunity to personalise your home, reflect your own style and make a statement regarding how you choose to live and raise your family.

An experienced designer specialising in residential homes like Martin Kolarik can ensure that you achieve your vision of a dream home with an elegant balance of form and function.

The hallmark of Martin’s designs are spacious, modern, light-filled spaces that excite the mind and spirit.

Simply Elegant Designs

Martin Kolarik designs elegant, high-quality homes that are inviting and comfortable to live in. We help our clients unlock the potential of their sites and create quality architecture and interiors that reflect our client’s needs and aspirations.

We do this through combining intelligent design, quality construction techniques and personalised finishes.

Our approach to design and delivery is collaborative in nature as you are involved in the decision making from the beginning.

We listen to how you want your new home to look and feel, how it should function for your family and your preferred unique features. 

Your Dream, Your Vision, and Your Home

modern home design in Sydney - bright, with views and lots of space
Modern home design in Sydney’s North – bright, with views and lots of space

We take immense pride in designing a personalised new home. Our goal is transforming your vision into reality.

Martin Kolarik’s Simply Elegant Design approach balances your current and future needs, your vision and dreams with council regulations and site challenges. According to these we offer you design options that work within your agreed budget.

View our Home Design Gallery for examples.

We will guide you to describe a clear and concise brief of what you want and need.

This brief considers all your requirements and challenges, including:

  • Your family’s needs and lifestyle
  • Budget and overall financial goals
  • Your short, medium, and long-term plans
  • Your site and local environment

Professional Home Design

deck of a new home

We believe in simplicity, elegance, and atmosphere, within the context of responsible home design.

There is a myriad of design options so we focus on how your family will live in your home. We consider how the public and private spaces are utilised and the feel you want to create.

A major consideration of the floor plan is how the flow of the entire home will function and offer versatile spaces that you and your family will enjoy for many years to come.

The style of your home reflects how you want your home to feel and how your visitors will feel welcome in your home.

Sharing images of homes that reflect your preferred styles will give us a good feel for what you are seeking without the need for being prescriptive. It is ideal to allow for options of innovative, personalised design solutions.

We design for the longevity of your home incorporating good design and good quality through:

new home interior with lots of light and high ceilings
High ceilings and integrated sky lights for light filled spaces
  • Elegant design that remains timeless
  • Quality design solutions
  • Quality construction techniques and materials
  • Mindful of future maintenance needs
  • Resolving construction challenges from the earliest stages of the design process, not during the construction phase. We ensure that the builder has a complete set of instructions that have these challenges resolved.

Elegance and simplicity in home design requires restraint and high quality, innovative design solutions.

Sustainability

We offer practical, sustainable design solutions for a more sustainable future.

  • Position of the home on the site to make the most of the environmental factors
  • Maintaining even temperature in the house and reducing the need for mechanical heating and cooling through the selection and design of the walls, windows, and roof. Specifically, the materials, insulation, and construction techniques
  • Reducing power needs with your selection of appliances
  • Managing water recycling and stormwater flow
  • Cost efficiency

Other Home Design Considerations

We have had a great deal of success with design and approvals for homes with complex sites.

Be they on sloping or atypical-shaped sites or have council restraints such as Heritage, Bushfire, Riparian or Biodiversity. These restraints are quite common on Sydney’s leafy North Shore which is the focus of our business.

For more specific details visit our Home Renovation on Bushfire Prone Land page.

We have a network of trusted consultants required to submit the required documentation for approvals to build your new property. We have our preferred builders whom you are welcome to engage. Alternatively, you are free to choose your own builder.

Our aim is for our clients to have an enjoyable experience where they feel that their designer is responsive to their objectives plus someone who can bring innovative, sophisticated design solutions to the table.

For more information, please feel free to call or contact us.

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Contemporary, creative designs of private homes for families.

This is the purpose of my practice.

Spacious, modern, light-filled spaces to excite the mind and spirit.

These are the hallmarks of my designs.

modern designer home in Sydney - kitchen and family area with view to outside deck

About Us

Accredited Building Designer

Martin Kolarik Home Design your Sydney North Shore specialist home designer. We live here, work here and have done so for decades.

We design extensions and renovations of houses to deliver beautiful, functional homes that complement your lifestyle and budget.

Martin Kolarik’s central design philosophy is modernism for its elegant simplicity.

He appreciates and employs the use of architecture to introduce natural light and ventilation as significant components of the design. This in turn has a positive effect on the sustainability of your home.

Martin creates spaces which are designed to be aesthetically elegant, comfortable and functional which will stand the test of time. He challenges the design solutions to ensure your design maximises every opportunity and the investment you are making to achieve a home that you will be excited to live in.

Welcome

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Welcome to my website. My purpose is to help you create a wonderful place you and your family can call home.

It is about listening and understanding your needs and what you would like to achieve. I have spent the better part of my life learning how to create warm and welcoming spaces rather than simply designing houses.

Please have a look around. View the galleries of some recent projects and read the testimonials from past clients.

I have also written many articles on my blog to help you on your journey to creating your dream home. I look forward to assisting you,

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Testimonials

A few words from our clients. Read them all in full here

Extremely Happy

The conversion of our 2 bedroom 1950’s bungalow to a modern 4 bedroom house has been an enjoyable journey that completed on time, on budget and with results that far exceeded our expectations.

Jon and Lindley Randle

Lane Cove

Invaluable Expertise

You can see quality in every design detail. During the construction process, Martin's expertise proved invaluable when dealing with council and a somewhat recalcitrant builder.

Dolien and Peter Nicolsen

Berowra NSW 2081

Innovative, highly professional and sympathetic

We wanted to suit the needs of our young family but Martin advised us on how to future proof our house design and meet our needs as our family grows up. We now have a stunning home and we couldn’t be happier with the architectural design.

David & Pauline

St Ives Chase

Fantastic

Martin Kolarik was instrumental in the design and documentation of our family home renovations a few years ago and I have pleasure in recommending his professional services.

Warwick J. Higgs

Chartered Accountant, Wahroonga

Far Exceeded Our Vision

At the completion of the building works, the end result is fantastic and far exceeds the vision we had all those years ago. Martin was able to take our scattered ideas for what we needed in a major extension/ renovation, at all times patiently working with our changing requirements, and deliver an end result that we are extremely pleased with.

Graeme Bradford

Turramurra

Very Happy

Martin's capable oversight of the builders and other contractors ensured we had a trouble free building experience. We continue to be very happy with the result of his efforts.

Patrick and Laura Mooney

A Joy To Work With Martin

Martin is very knowledgeable, organised and professional and it is a joy working with him. He gives every request due consideration, no matter how challenging the request.

Anja & Perry Poehlmann,

St Ives Chase.

Seven years on and still really happy

Seven years on and still really happy I am sitting here typing this testimonial for Martin, 7 years later, and really appreciating this amazing home we live in that is part of the bush environment, as well as providing my family with a very comfortable and modern home.

Mateki and Liam Payne

Hornsby Heights

Exceeded Our Expectations

Martin's ability to understand our core requirements and present answers and new ideas for our project exceeded our expectations. Several design features that Martin presented to us regularly get positive comments from visitors to our home, these comments have come from builders, designers and engineers.

James Douglass J.P.

Lane Cove

Invaluable

Martin has exceeded our expectations during a lengthy design and approval process. His attention to detail and flexibility in being able to interpret our ideas into a new functional space has been outstanding. His assistance during the quotation phase of the project was invaluable and resulted in us engaging a first class builder to complete the works.

Teresa and Peter Gray

Very Attentive

Martin listened very attentively to our requirements and very cooperatively finalised the plan, with careful discussion back and forth. We felt he always took on board our thinking, while respectfully putting his own suggestions.

James and Irene Franklin

Lane Cove

Very Happy

Now that we have lived in the finished product we can categorically state that we wouldn't change any part of the design. Indeed, the only parts of the renovation that we would change are those you weren't involved with!

Michael and Quyen

I Cannot Begin To Thank Martin Enough

One of our main concerns was getting the design through council as we were in a conservation area. Again Martin handled it with ease, going through first time with no amendments! Practically unheard of in our area.

Joe and Sonya La Rosa

The Ultimate Professional

On each occasion I have dealt with Martin and his business I have always found him to be the ultimate professional. One of Martin's strong points, which I particularly admire, is his ability to design to a budget and his understanding of building costs. I feel this is an area of design which many designers are particularly weak.

Mark Newman, Director, Newmark Constructions

www.newmark.com.au

Excellent All the Way

Martin Kolarik was the first person to provide a solution that specifically addressed our requirements. His additional suggestions very much enhanced our living and the value of our home. His unwavering commitment continued until the last paperwork was done, long after the final fee was paid.

Ross & Daphne Bishop

West Pymble

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Home Designers Sydney | Home Extensions & Renovation | House Additions & First Floor Additions Sydney

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