This apartment sits high in the Horizon Building — the Harry Seidler-designed tower on the Darlinghurst, Elizabeth Bay and Kings Cross border — and it has views over the city skyline and the harbour that most renovations would be smart enough to let speak for themselves. This one had other plans. Every wall, and several ceilings, have been painted in a single unwavering shade of pink, as though someone opened a tin of Taubman’s Canyon Pink on the top floor and simply let physics take over from there.
The kitchen took a different can to the face — Monument Black, applied with equal conviction to full-height fluted joinery, set against book-matched marble benchtops that would look perfectly at home in a much quieter apartment. It doesn’t. It sits there, moody and expensive, glowering at the pink walls one room over like it got put in the wrong listing by mistake. We’re told the brief was to make the place feel like a hotel room you never have to check out of. Mission extremely accomplished.
The pink commitment does not let up indoors. The primary bedroom has a glowing neon arch built into the headboard wall and a mirrored ceiling detail, with monogrammed pink cushions stacked to a height that suggests professional turndown service rather than casual home styling. The second bedroom allows itself one moment of contrast — black satin bedding, a framed Brigitte Bardot portrait keeping watch — before the pink walls close back in around it. Even the bathroom gets a blush acrylic bathtub glowing on a marble plinth, because apparently there was never a version of this apartment where a room was simply going to be left alone.
The price guide is undisclosed, though comparable two-bedders in the building have sold for between $3.5 and $4.5 million, which gives you some sense of what a Harry Seidler postcode costs even before anyone reaches for the pink paint. The agent says a renovation this specific is easy to get wrong and hard to pull off — we’d agree, and we’d add that whoever buys it is going to need a personality bold enough to live inside somebody else’s fully committed colour palette. If that’s you: the view’s included, and so, unfortunately, are all the cushions.
