Better with age: Flooring trends in senior living
The Function Room and Bar area carpet features irregular, geometric shapes.
Oran Park House offers contemporary premium aged-care accommodation in Sydney’s south-west.
The ‘Drive In Cinema’ features a gradient, deep-toned GH Commercial carpet.
The GH Commercial woven carpet used throughout this project is resilient, slip-resistant and easy to clean.
The custom-woven patterned carpets used throughout Oram Park House were made possible through GH Commercial’s Fast Track® programme.
Resident rooms and hallways were kept deliberately neutral, with subtly patterned carpets of variegated earth shades speckled with blue.
Alongside providing design services across the broader commercial and residential sectors, TSD Studio enjoys a well-deserved reputation as Sydney’s leading aged care interior design specialists. Widely regarded for creating appealing and energising seniors-focused environments, TSD Studio’s designs foreground comfort, accessibility and absolute ease of living.
Oran Park House
Oran Park House is Thompson Health Care’s brand-new aged care facility. Located moments from shopping and transport, it comprises resort-style accommodation, permanent and respite places and 24-hour registered nursing care, along with a café, private dining room, arts and crafts space, cinema, beauty salon and library.
Briefed to design the interior, the talented TSD Studio team got to work creating a sophisticated and luxurious atmosphere for residents and their visitors, while discreetly avoiding overt visual reference to specific medical care finishes.
Essential design elements inspired by the site’s history as Oran Park Raceway included the subtle use of graphics and modern industrial finishes, resulting in a spacious, contemporary interior defined by clean lines, feature colours and high contrast trims.
Having enjoyed previous successful design collaborations with TSD Studio, GH Commercial was able to tie together the various style elements with a series of custom-woven 42oz carpets using our fully customisable Fast Track® programme.
Balancing form and function:
Resident rooms and hallways were kept deliberately neutral, with subtly patterned carpets of variegated earth shades speckled with blue.
The architecture of the Chapel, with its vaulted ceiling and large windows, was offset by a patterned carpet of gently overlapping squares in muted tones, while the Function Room and Bar area called for something more vibrant.
Reminiscent of the type of entertainment venues residents may have frequented in the past, the area needed to evoke feelings of fun and socialisation. Irregular, geometric shapes interspersed with bold borders delivered both energy and timeless style.
“One of the glory moments in this very large project is the ‘Drive In Cinema’, where a gradient, deep-toned carpet and twinkling ceiling lighting provide the mood in the cinema proper and the clever use of the site heritage is reflected in a custom wall covering in the cinema lounge”
-TSD Studio.
Design for assisted living facilities:
Designing for long-term living facilities requires a balance of high functionality and aesthetic familiarity. GH Commercial works across the independent living, assisted living and special-care sectors to provide evidence-based flooring design solutions that bring together all the key elements of durability, safety and sustainability. Resilient, slip-resistant and easy to clean, our carpets are also produced to be visually reassuring and comfortable.
Fabulous Fast Track®:
The Fast Track® programme has been developed to combine the best of customised one-off projects with the convenience of ready-made carpet collections. Perfect for smaller projects or tight timelines, Fast Track® makes it possible to create Custom Woven Wool Blend carpet and have it delivered in 8 weeks.*
Select a pattern from GH Commercial’s extensive in-house collection, in a choice of one of two colour-themed palettes, and then send through your design for a sample to be made. Order quantities begin from as little as 20 lineal metres. Fast Track® custom carpets provide commercial projects with genuine bespoke capability.
*From order date. Please allow longer for large projects.
About GH Commercial:
Drawing on over 150 years of local manufacturing experience in Australia and New Zealand, GH Commercial is committed to designing, creating and supplying high-quality, beautiful and sustainable floor coverings.
As part of the world’s largest flooring company, they offer market-leading brands to meet your flooring needs. Brands include Mohawk Group, IVC Commercial, Godfrey Hirst and Feltex.
For more information, visit ghcommercial.co.nz, call 0800 500 210 or email info@ghcommercial.com
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