Ironbark House

Elizabeth Bay Apartment

First Pearl

Tamarama

Longview

Wimbo Park House

Lucian Lighting

Glass Brick House 

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STUDIO CARSON KELLY is a Sydney-based ARCHITECTURE and INTERIOR DESIGN practice creating personal, purposeful spaces that deepen the connection between people and place.

Studio Carson Kelly

A holiday home shaped by calm, clarity, and meditative precision. What began as the reconstruction of a fragmented coastal apartment evolved into something quieter - an interior distilled to its essentials, rebuilt from the base structure but guided by a single idea: to create space for stillness.

Set high above the Sunshine Coast, the apartment leans into its outlook. Curved walls, finished in hand-trowelled microcement, soften the plan and draw light gently across the surface of each room. Neutral tones, stones, and warm timbers form a tonal palette that feels both refined and grounding - materials chosen not to impress, but to endure, to deepen in character, to live with the shifting coastal light.

First Pearl is, at its heart, a place of calm immersion. A residence where architecture withdraws just enough for the landscape to breathe, and where the experience of living - light, shadow, sea - becomes the true expression of luxury.

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Lucian’s Glebe showroom is conceived not as a traditional retail space, but as a working studio – a place where the transformative potential of light can be both studied and experienced. Designed for the architectural lighting brand’s growing Sydney team, the project brings together office, workshop and gallery-like functions within a single, immersive environment.

Our intention was simple: to create a setting that reflects Lucian’s values of collaboration, rigour and design-led thinking. The space is warm and quietly restrained, yet highly functional – a domain where fittings can be tested against real architectural conditions, and where light itself becomes the primary material. Scale, texture and atmosphere shift throughout the interior, revealing how illumination can shape spatial perception with extraordinary subtlety.

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Wimbo Park House reimagines a heritage terrace by opening it toward the green expanse of Wimbo Park and strengthening its connection to the Surry Hills community. Opposite the newly renewed park, the design allows the home to breathe outward - drawing landscape, daylight and neighbourhood activity deep into the interior.

The exterior is intentionally calm. A restrained palette and softened upper addition allow the house to blend into both terrace row and tree canopy, maintaining cohesion with its neighbours while gently engaging the park across the street. 

Wimbo Park House is an architecture of context and generosity - one that gives back through openness, respects the history of the terrace row, and embraces the landscape that defines this pocket of Surry Hills.

Crafted on a remarkably tight parcel of land less than four metres wide, Glass Brick House is our own contemporary dwelling shaped with clarity and character, now approaching completion.

Perched above Elizabeth Bay with an uninterrupted sweep of Sydney Harbour, this apartment offered an extraordinary outlook but little else. What we first encountered was a time capsule of 1980s excess - low ceilings, heavy granite, awkward circulation, and a compartmentalised plan that actively worked against the site’s potential.

Working closely with designer Gillian Khaw, we approached the project as the re-staging of a classic apartment: a disciplined architectural edit that allowed for expressive interior moments without compromising spatial logic.

Shaped with the precision of a jeweller’s hand, the Tamarama Residence is envisioned as a jewel set quietly against the rugged edge of Mackenzies Bay. Still in its making, the home is guided by a singular idea: to craft a place where the artistry of living and the rhythm of the ocean meet.

Shaped for a young family, Longview is a generous home that settles warmly into the heart of Balmain. Recently completed and soon to be published, it is guided by a singular idea: to create a place where the vibrancy of family life and the comfort of togetherness meet.

A home shaped by landscape, regulation, and quiet resilience. What began as a response to strict bushfire controls became something more - an architecture defined not by limitation, but by clarity. Set within a rugged coastal escarpment in New South Wales, Ironbark House is a study in how constraint can sharpen intention, grounding a family home in both protection and place.

Clad entirely in corrugated zincalume steel, the exterior reads as a series of calm, barn-like forms - durable, unobtrusive, and attuned to the shifting coastal light. 

Organised around a central courtyard, the home unfolds as two distinct volumes. Positioned according to bushfire setbacks and natural topography, the plan yields a rare experience: a single-level home that feels suspended within the branches. From a bed or a lounge chair, the view meets the mid-to-high canopy, offering a sense of being held gently among the trees.

Inside, the palette remains pared back. Windows capture the passing shadows of the surrounding bush, allowing the landscape to animate the interiors throughout the day. Moments of stillness emerge naturally, created not by ornament but by proportion, framing, and a deep respect for site.

Ironbark House is, at its core, an architecture of context and restraint. A home where process is valued over gesture, and where the quiet logic of environment - topography, climate, vegetation - becomes the foundation for a grounded, enduring way of living.