Skinned with cloistral archways and spanning 535 square metres, venturing through Bondi Beach Villa leads you to numerous living areas, one office, five bedrooms and six bathrooms. In the basement there's a gym, sauna and cold plunge. It's a journey, with the team at Handelsmann + Khaw starting the story at the front door and completing it in the attic bar. "Because of the way the house is planned, the interiors naturally shift as you move through it, and we leaned into that," says Tania Handelsmann, who worked on the design with her interior designers, Ursula Król and Brooke Tilston. "The social spaces are open and robust: they can handle people, entertaining, coming and going. As you move upstairs, things become softer and more enclosed. There's more fabric, warmer finishes, and more intimate moments. Then, at the very top, the bar is almost a release."