Oran Park House is Thompson Health Care's brand new senior living facility designed by TSD Studio, a reputed aged care interior design specialist in Sydney.
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 a library.
With a focus on flooring unique to senior living communities, GH Commercial was delighted to provide a custom woven carpet solution to the Oran Park project.
Widely regarded for creating appealing and energising seniors-focused environments, TSD Studio’s intelligent designs are focussed on comfort, accessibility and absolute ease of living.
Briefed to design the interior, the talented TSD 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, GH Commercial was able to tie together the various style elements with a series of custom woven 42oz carpets using their fully customisable Fast Track program.
Custom Designs
Resident rooms and hallways were kept deliberately neutral, with subtly patterned carpets of variegated earthy shades speckled with blue.
The architecture of the Chapel, with its vaulted ceiling and massive windows, was offset by a patterned carpet of gently overlapping squares in muted tones, while the Function Room and Bar areas 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. The cinema was a design highlight.
“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 said.
Senior Living Carpet
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 program has been developed to combine the best of customised one-off projects with the convenience of readymade 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, choose from 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.
