Feature · Bayfront apartment · Brickell, FL

Santa Maria

A high floor over the bay in Brickell, measured while every wall in it was still taped drywall. The kitchen is walnut under taupe lacquer now, round a peninsula of white marble that runs to the floor. The screen sits in a lacquer frame, and the wardrobe is walnut from end to end, lit at every shelf.

Text and pictures: Nodum

Type: Bayfront apartment
Where: Brickell, FL
Year: 2026
Views: 2

What we built

Walnut kitchen
Marble waterfall peninsula
Lacquer media wall
Walnut walk-in wardrobe
Walnut bedroom wall
Bath vanities

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Before

Taped drywall

The kitchen as it reached us: taped drywall, a bare slab, and the pipes and boxes for a kitchen in the far wall, with the bay through the glass on the right. The camera holds still and the work moves.

The shell

Skimmed, painted, tiled

The joints are skimmed and the walls painted a pale warm grey. The slab is tiled in cream, the ceiling takes its lights and vents, a door is hung and sheer curtains are drawn across the glass.

The kitchen

Walnut round the fridge

Tall walnut units go up round the fridge, then walnut base cupboards along the back wall and the right, and taupe lacquer above them, ending in an open walnut shelf.

The kitchen

Marble, then the stools

White marble goes on the tops and up the splashback, round the oven and the sink. Then the peninsula, the same marble turning down to the floor, four leather stools along it, and last the light under the cupboards.

The peninsula

Off the tripod

The work is done and the camera moves for the first time, past the waterfall end of the peninsula, turning as it goes.

Final

Into the kitchen

Inside the U: the sink under the lit splashback, walnut below it, and the peninsula running across to the right with a wine fridge in its end. The living room is beyond, the screen in its lacquer frame.

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Before and after

Two rooms from bare drywall.

Both pairs are the same spot twice: the day we measured, with the joints still taped and the slab bare, and the day we handed it over.

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The finished kitchen: walnut tall units round the fridge, taupe lacquer cupboards, a lit marble splashback and a white marble waterfall peninsula with four stools

The kitchen as received: taped drywall, a bare concrete slab, pipes and boxes in the far wall and the bay through the window on the right

Fig. 2 · Kitchen

From the pipes in the wall

Taped drywall, a bare slab and the pipes and boxes for a kitchen in the far wall, with the bay through the glass on the right. It is walnut now: tall units round the fridge, taupe lacquer over the run, a marble splashback lit from under the cupboards, and a peninsula of the same marble that turns down to the floor, with four stools along it.

The finished living room: the screen in a pale lacquer frame lit along its head, a grey sofa and armchairs, a dining table and glazed doors to the lift lobby

The living room as received: taped drywall on the walls and ceiling, a bare slab, windows down the left and the lift lobby open at the far end

Fig. 3 · Living room

Down the length of the room

One long room in taped drywall, the glass down the left and the lift lobby open at the far end. The long wall carries the screen now, in a frame of pale lacquer round a dark back, lit along its head, with open shelves either side. The lobby is behind a pair of glazed doors, and walnut panels the wall beside them.