Residential Interior Design and Decoration in Sydney
Kaiko Design Interiors is a Sydney studio specialising in residential interior design for clients who want more than a surface-level refresh. We design homes from the ground up and we redesign them from the inside out.
Led by Nic Kaiko, whose career spans luxury hotel design and luxury residential projects across Australia and internationally, the studio brings a level of design rigour and documentation to residential work that most studios reserve for much larger commercial projects. The result is homes that feel considered at every scale from the spatial planning to the handle height.
Our residential portfolio spans Sydney and beyond: terrace houses in the inner east, apartments in the lower north shore, large family homes on the upper north shore and coastal properties along the NSW coast. Each project begins with the same question: how does this person actually want to live? We build on the answer together from there.
We work with clients in person across Greater Sydney and remotely throughout New South Wales and Australia.
Recent residential projects
Each project below represents a different brief, a different architecture and a different client. What they share is the same design methodology: a clear concept, meticulous documentation and an interior that could only ever belong to the person who commissioned it.
Where we work
Our residential projects are concentrated across Sydney's established suburbs, where heritage architecture, harbourside apartments and substantial family homes each demand a different design response. Read more about our work as an interior designer on the Lower North Shore, in the Eastern Suburbs, across the Upper North Shore and throughout North West Sydney.
Ready to start your project?
The first step is a conversation. Tell us about your home, your brief and your timeline — we'll come back to you with an honest assessment of how we can help and what it's likely to involve.
What we do
Full home interior design From a ground-up architectural build to a whole-home renovation, we manage the full scope of the interior — spatial planning, documentation, material selections, furniture and decoration. Every stage is managed under a fixed fee, with deliverables and progress payments clearly outlined before work begins.
Renovation and refurbishment Whether you're reconfiguring a floor plan, updating a kitchen and bathrooms or reworking a tired interior to suit a new chapter of life, we bring the same level of design thinking to renovations as we do to new builds. Good renovation design resolves what isn't working spatially while honouring what is.
Apartment interior design Apartments present a particular design challenge: fixed architecture, limited natural light and the constant negotiation between storage, openness and personality. We have extensive experience designing Sydney apartments across a wide range of buildings, periods and price points.
Heritage and character homes Sydney's terrace houses, federation homes and other heritage home renovations are some of the most rewarding spaces to work with — and the most unforgiving if handled clumsily. We understand the material language of these buildings and how to introduce contemporary living without erasing what makes them special.
Colour consultation and interior decoration For clients whose architecture is settled but whose interiors need direction — a considered colour palette, furniture selections, window furnishings and the final layers of decoration — we offer a focused decoration service tailored to the scope required.