Penman Brown Interior Design

Penman Brown Interior Design INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN DECORATION+CUSTOMISATION Awarded interiors telling your story. Quiet drama. Detail distilled. Beauty felt.

I have always had a passionate relationship with art, design and interiors. For over 20 years I have studied and explored the effects objects and environments have on our feelings, emotions and memories. Our desire to enhance our surrounds is innate. Creating beautiful, meaningful living spaces, that are reflective of who we are, enriches our lives. With a love of travel, my design aesthetic is constantly informed by new people, places, cultures, history and ideas. Traveling, working and living in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa has also given me a deep appreciation of individual and cultural expressions of home. An informed eye and awareness of global trends, combined with the understanding that each client’s vision of home is unique, inspires an exciting and original design narrative. If home implies a sanctuary, I look to satisfy the most fundamental requirements of tranquility, comfort and warmth whilst still imbuing a home with an adventurous undercurrent. I strive to create beautifully considered, timeless interiors that blur boundaries between past & present and believe my talent lies in the ability to juxtapose many disparate elements. In practicing design I focus on the details of scale, proportion, light, movement and composition, making my starting point the architectural style of a space. Then, with a clear understanding of the client’s needs, a plan is developed for interior and furniture configurations, textual finishes and colour palettes. The interiors are highlighted with beautifully finished and detailed bespoke furnishings created using superior materials and specialist craftsman. We create high quality and original work that lasts. Good customer service is key. My reputation has been founded on word of mouth and is how I obtain my clients. The pleasure and inspiration a beautiful and functional home adds to my client’s lives, and the people they share it with, is my life’s passion and the measure of my success.

The bathroom may have been a finalist in Australian House & Garden’s Top 50 Rooms, but the clients award goes to the kit...
23/09/2026

The bathroom may have been a finalist in Australian House & Garden’s Top 50 Rooms, but the clients award goes to the kitchen.

A beach house kitchen should understand where it is.

At Kingsley, the kitchen was conceived as part of the architecture rather than an object within it. Warm, tactile and deliberately informal, natural materials and custom joinery for this much loved beach house.

The brief was not to erase what was already there, but to preserve the character, ease and spirit of the house while giving it a renewed sense of purpose. There is restraint, but also personality. Nuanced colour, crafted detail and clean architectural lines. Nothing too precious. Designed for everyday family life, long lunches and a house full of people.

Familiar, but freshly drawn.

A little visual trickery.Against the rigorous geometry of this oceanfront apartment, the olive velvet Camaleonda introdu...
16/09/2026

A little visual trickery.

Against the rigorous geometry of this oceanfront apartment, the olive velvet Camaleonda introduces something deliberately softer: low, organic form, deep tactility and a looseness that shifts the character of the room.

Behind it, smoked mirror was used less as decoration than as an architectural device, extending sightlines, catching fragments of landscape and creating the illusion of space continuing beyond its physical boundaries.

The result is a layering of opposites: reflective and tactile, structured and organic, precise and relaxed.

For us, this tension is often where an interior becomes interesting.

Interior design + decoration by Penman Brown
The Carlisle, Tamarama, Sydney

House & Garden Top 50 Rooms 2026 AwardsMOSMAN HERITAGE + KINGSLEY BEACH HOUSEWonderful to see a few of our recent Penman...
15/09/2026

House & Garden Top 50 Rooms 2026 Awards

MOSMAN HERITAGE + KINGSLEY BEACH HOUSE

Wonderful to see a few of our recent Penman Brown projects selected for Australian House & Garden Top 50 Rooms 2026, celebrating some of the best in Australian interior design.

It’s always lovely to be part of the Top 50 Rooms awards program and especially good to be back this year with two projects included.

A perfect spring afternoon was spent at the Opera House celebrating alongside many of Australia’s leading interior design and architecture studios. Thank you to Editor Gavin Kirk and the House & Garden team for continuing to champion Australian design, and for recognising our work once again in 2026. We're honoured to receive this recognition.

I’m looking forward to sharing Mosman Heritage and Kingsley Beach House in more detail over the coming weeks.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONTop 50 RoomsShortlistMOSMAN HERITAGE Best Soft Furnishing 2026Thanks to Gavin Kirk and the team Aust...
09/09/2026

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Top 50 Rooms
Shortlist
MOSMAN HERITAGE
Best Soft Furnishing 2026

Thanks to Gavin Kirk and the team Australian House & Garden for recognising our Mosman Heritage project and for a fantastic event celebrating Australian Residential Interior Design. Photography Pablo Veiga

Mosman Heritage reimagines a complex attic master suite within a Federation home in Mosman. Working within an unchanged architectural shell, Penman Brown Interior Design transformed a room compromised by awkward asymmetrical rooflines,
low-set windows, and imbalanced proportions into a calm, immersive retreat. Through a carefully orchestrated combination of wall panelling, integrated lighting, precisely engineered window treatments, richly layered materiality, immersive colour, and finely resolved detailing, the design reshapes the perception of space rather than the structure itself. The result is a bedroom that feels generous, emotionally restorative, and intrinsically connected to its harbour setting.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONTop 50 RoomsShortlistKINGLSEY BEACH HOUSEBest Bathroom 2026Thanks to Gavin Kirk and the team Austral...
07/09/2026

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Top 50 Rooms
Shortlist
KINGLSEY BEACH HOUSE
Best Bathroom 2026

Thanks to Gavin Kirk and the team Australian House & Garden for recognising our Kinglsey Beach House project and for a fantastic event celebrating Australian Residential Interior Design.

Congratulations to our many peers also. Such beautiful work by so many.

04/09/2026

House & Garden Top 50 rooms
Best Bathroom & Best Soft Furnishings. Longlist 2026. Looking forward to today’s award lunch at the Opera House. Perfect day for it.

02/09/2026
01/09/2026
HOUSE & GARDEN Top50 2026. Honoured to be included for categories Best Bathroom and Best Soft Furnishing, in the Longlis...
01/09/2026

HOUSE & GARDEN Top50 2026. Honoured to be included for categories Best Bathroom and Best Soft Furnishing, in the Longlist 100: Kingsley Beach, Boat Harbour.

A charming little north coast beach house atop a cliff overlooking the ocean, a conversion of the quintessential Australian family holiday home, loved through generations.

With clever pool and landscaping by Simon Thomas Landscapes, holding on to its heart, it dives into its next chapter as a whimsical coastal escape. Served up with a heated floating plunge pool and traditional wooden sauna, it’s beach shack luxury.

Kingsley Beach, Boat Harbour: A coastal interior by Penman Brown, for House & Garden Australia Top 50 rooms. We look forward to the Awards lunch at the Sydney Opera House on Friday celebrating the best in Australian residential interior design.

Small moments, melded into everyday pleasures. What appears simple is often the result of highly considered interior arc...
13/08/2026

Small moments, melded into everyday pleasures. What appears simple is often the result of highly considered interior architecture and spatial problem-solving.

This family room in a luxury holiday home was designed for extended family life, a flexible space for lounging, entertaining, and gathering. In contemporary Australian coastal and country homes, second residences must shift effortlessly between quiet retreat and lively hosting.

Here, the room functions as sunroom, media lounge, games space, art corner, and guest overflow. Rather than competing uses, these are embedded into the architecture itself.

A continuous built-in banquette runs beneath the full span of windows, formed from three king-single mattresses upholstered end-to-end. By day, it’s a generous place to read, rest or draw; by night, it becomes three comfortable guest beds.

The pleasure is in how little you need to think about it.

For Penman Brown Interior Design, this is the essence of considered design, resolving complexity behind the scenes so life in holiday homes and coastal retreats feels beautifully simple, liveable, and calm.

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