A Quiet Tropic by Artspaze
In a quiet corner of Parbury Avenue, A Quiet Tropic by Artspaze reimagines a compact city home as an intimate tropical sanctuary shaped by craft and conscious materiality.
Designed for sociable homeowners who love to host yet value stillness, the space privileges warmth, texture, and environmental care over ornament or excess.
Founded in 2019, Artspaze is guided by the belief that every home is an artwork—an intimate reflection of its owners’ lifestyle and values. Their approach favours human stories and emotional resonance over trend-driven gestures. At Parbury Avenue, this philosophy manifests in a willingness to reconfigure the apartment fully, aligning spatial flow and material choices with the clients’ commitment to sustainability and convivial living.
The home is reorganised around a generous public zone that brings living, dining, kitchen, and study areas into a connected sequence. Walls are removed and doorways repositioned to encourage easy movement and shared moments. A dedicated work-from-home space is integrated into this realm, allowing the homeowner to remain part of the home’s life while working.
The couple’s love of entertaining shapes key decisions. A sleek bar counter sits at the edge of the kitchen, forming a natural gathering point for drinks and conversation. Subtle level changes and lower-height platforms ensure that their dog can move comfortably throughout the home, embedding everyday practicality into the design.
Sustainability sits at the core of the project. One homeowner, the founder of Seastainable, a marine conservation initiative based in Singapore, brings a deep environmental awareness that guides each material selection.
Green Label Certified vinyl flooring spans the living spaces, contributing to low emissions and healthier indoor air quality. Walls finished in zero-VOC paints offer a softly textured backdrop, suggesting comfort that extends beyond appearance to overall wellbeing.
In the kitchen and bar, Cosentino’s Hybriq+® countertops merge recycled content with reduced water usage and a lower carbon footprint, embodying an evolved approach to sustainable surfaces. The dining wall is lined with recycled bricks, each salvaged piece introducing a tactile reminder that design can preserve as well as create.
In the primary bedroom, a special effects paint with a sandy texture pays homage to the homeowner’s love of the sea. The bathroom tiles echo the gentle meeting of beach and water, ensuring that the marine narrative threads through the private spaces as well.
The main living area feels open yet softly defined. A curved arch marks the transition between study and living zones, adding sculptural softness while maintaining visual continuity. Another arch frames the kitchen entry, and together these gestures establish a language of gentle thresholds rather than hard separations.
A full-height carpentry feature wall functions as both partition and focal element, its arched opening mirroring the kitchen entry. In the bedroom, a low platform bed and a curved storage cabinet beside the built-in vanity extend this theme of rounded forms and crafted detail, creating a calm, cocoon-like retreat.
Built-in wardrobes sit flush with the walls to maintain visual clarity. A straw-textured pendant above the bed casts a dappled glow over cream-toned walls, reinforcing the home’s emphasis on tactile, sensory comfort. In the bathroom, emerald subway tiles shimmer under light, balanced by a dark wood vanity that continues the home’s crafted language.
Every element in A Quiet Tropic carries intention. Sustainable surfaces, recycled materials, low-toxicity finishes, and sea-inspired textures come together to create a home that addresses environmental responsibility without sacrificing beauty or comfort.
For Artspaze, the project is a clear statement of their design philosophy: to shape homes around the lives, values, and stories of their occupants; to rearrange walls and circulation when needed; and to treat material selection as an ethical as well as aesthetic act.
Here, tropical living is expressed not through overt motifs but through warmth, tactility, and ease. The apartment invites its owners and their guests to slow down, notice surfaces and light, and inhabit a space where quiet sustainability and crafted intimacy coexist in every detail.
