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Brett Mickan Interior Design

Brett Mickan is a Sydney-based interior designer specialising in high-end residential design. www.bmid.com.au

At bmid, we determine each client’s goals and project requirements. We consider how the space will be used and how people will move through it. We’ll sketch preliminary design plans and specify materials and furnishings, such as lighting, furniture, wall coverings, window treatments, flooring, equipment, accessories and artwork. We can create a timeline for the interior design process and estimate a project’s cost.

05/11/2026

The best renovation doesn’t erase the house it started with.

At Lucretia Avenue, the existing details helped shape what came next.

A former verandah had been enclosed and extended, leaving a room with some unusual angles. We continued its existing battening around the walls, creating a rhythm that brings the space together. What could have been removed became its defining feature.

In the new bathroom, tile colour and layout reference the home’s period, helping a contemporary space feel connected to the original house.

We raised an original stained-glass window and added glazing beneath, then drew its colours into the furnishings. Strong blocks of colour give the original mouldings greater presence.

Sometimes the detail you’re tempted to remove is the very thing that makes the room. Instalove. Pablo Veiga jackmilenkovic Fanuli Furniture Tom Fereday &Tradition Cult. The Vault Sydney Dulux Australia • FRED INTERNATIONAL • RACHEL DONATH Jan van Schaik Cadrys Sydney Tap And Bathroomware Nathalie Capitaine DESIGN BY THEM Joanna Cole Granitemarbleworks District Furniture

05/11/2026

The best renovation doesn’t erase the house it started with.

At Lucretia Avenue, the existing details helped shape what came next.

A former verandah had been enclosed and extended, leaving a room with some unusual angles. We continued its existing battening around the walls, creating a rhythm that brings the space together. What could have been removed became its defining feature.

In the new bathroom, tile colour and layout reference the home’s period, helping a contemporary space feel connected to the original house.

We raised an original stained-glass window and added glazing beneath, then drew its colours into the furnishings. Strong blocks of colour give the original mouldings greater presence.

Sometimes the detail you’re tempted to remove is the very thing that makes the room. Pablo Veiga jackmilenkovic Fanuli Furniture Nathalie Capitaine Living Edge • FRED INTERNATIONAL • Cadrys Cult. District Furniture Tom Fereday RACHEL DONATH Jan van Schaik District Furniture Granitemarbleworks Sydney Tap And Bathroomware Dulux Australia DESIGNER RUGS

04/11/2026

I travel with a camera, not a checklist.

What catches my eye is often a small moment. The rhythm of veined marble. Light falling through a sheer curtain. A tablecloth caught by the breeze.

I’m drawn to the composition: how colours meet, how materials sit together, how a detail gives a place its character.

These photographs are a collection of things I stopped to notice. They come home with me, finding their way into how I think about rooms, colour and the feeling of a space. &pattern

02/11/2026

We met at interior design school when we were 17. Still mixing patterns.

Together again on Saturday to celebrate a very special birthday. instalove Samantha Over Yolanda Lavin

31/10/2026

ONE OBJECT / We went back for the chairs.

We’d already bought a square eight-seater table in lacquered bone mosaic, chrome chairs still wearing their original 1970s velour, and a chrome-and-Lucite chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari.

We lived nearby, so we went home to get the car. We were supposed to be collecting the shopping.

Then we spotted the legs.

The curved laminated timber caught our eye—we recognised them as an earlier version of Saarinen’s Executive chair for Knoll. Four of them. We couldn’t believe our luck. We’d come back to collect one set of chairs and were now buying another.

This was the Sunday market on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, more than twenty years ago. Before the big chains moved in, the street was full of boutiques and restaurants. The market was enormous—a highlight of the month, with fabulous mid-century pieces coming out of the old homes of Palm Beach.

Those were golden days for vintage hunting in Miami. Prices came down towards closing time, so our trip home for the car had worked out rather well.

I had the chairs reupholstered in red Dot Pattern, designed by Charles and Ray Eames and produced by Maharam. They lived in our red-walled Miami kitchen, later featured on the pages of Inside Out magazine.

Today they’re with us in Sydney, still wearing the same fabric.

I can resist plenty of things. A vintage market has never been one of them.

Maharam Knoll Joanna Gambotto Dulux Australia Alessi

30/10/2026

STUDIO NOTES

If I’m asking clients to embrace colour and pattern, you can reasonably expect to find both in my studio.

The latest addition is wallpaper from the fabulous House of Hackney. The art, furniture and collected objects were already here, but the pattern has changed how they feel together. Familiar pieces have a new presence; colours that were quietly sitting in an artwork suddenly come forward.

One considered change can shift the way you experience an entire room.

And it makes coming to work rather more appealing.

House of Hackney Dulux Australia Art Muse Kristen Lethem Joanna Cole Knoll Lydie du Bray Antiques

29/10/2026

A COLLECTOR’S APPROACH TO INTERIORS

A home should feel collected, not completed.

My client has a wonderful collection of predominantly Australian art, a love of mid-century design and a personality that is anything but predictable.

Her contemporary home takes its architectural cues from the mid-century, but the last thing we wanted was a period piece.

Instead, I approached the interiors much as she approaches collecting art. With curiosity, an adventurous eye and absolutely no obligation to stay within one period or style.

Vintage furniture sits alongside contemporary pieces. Sculptural lighting, expressive fabrics and unexpected objects all bring their own personalities to the conversation.

The idea was never to make the interiors match the art, but to give the furniture, textiles and objects the same sense of discovery and individuality as the collection itself.

Nothing too coordinated. Nothing too reverential. And certainly nothing that looks as though it arrived in one delivery.

A home that reflects its owner: colourful, confident, a little irreverent.

A home with a wink and a cocktail.

Pablo Veiga .M Contemporary | Sydney Art Gallery Andrew Ayoub Fanuli Furniture Jonathan Adler grazia&co South Pacific Fabrics TSAR Carpets House of Hackney Dulux Australia ben david ORIENT HOUSE MOOD OBJECTS Style Rev. The Merchants Warehouse Nathalie Capitaine McMullin DESIGNER RUGS

26/10/2026

A converted factory shouldn’t forget it’s a factory.

One of the things I love most about working with older buildings is uncovering the stories they have to tell.

At Crawford Place, we discovered original early-1900s brickwork and poured concrete walls from a 1980s renovation, all hidden behind layers of plasterboard.

Rather than cover them up again, we made them part of the story. We even constructed a new brick column at the end of the kitchen, using original bricks salvaged from the site to resolve the transition between spaces.

Vintage-inspired wallpaper behind the bar evokes an earlier Sydney, while richly veined marble references the decorative confidence of the early 20th century. Bold colour, contemporary art, luxurious fabrics and vintage furniture bring the building into its next chapter.

For me, designing an older home isn’t about erasing its past. It’s about weaving that history into the lives of its new inhabitants.

The design can be bold and unexpected, yet still feel completely inevitable.

interiordesign Pablo Veiga Felix Forest Dulux Australia Savage Design Nathalie Capitaine Granitemarbleworks Living Edge Cadrys jims_bespoke_creations Living Edge Iksel Decorative Arts BOYAC Winning Appliances Est Lighting Articolo Studios Mondoluce Kvadrat STARK South Pacific Fabrics

24/10/2026

ONE OBJECT | The one that followed me home

Shopping for clients in vintage stores is rather like Christmas shopping. Somehow, you always find something for yourself.

I couldn’t resist this gloriously eccentric Italian parrot lamp. I have a weakness for unusual lighting, and two white parrots with gilded beaks were never going to help.

Nick’s response when I brought it home?

“Do we really need another lamp? And where exactly is it going?”

Minor details.

Only afterwards did I investigate its original tags and discover it was made by Arte Medicea. I bought it for its wonderful absurdity. The pedigree was a bonus.

ONE OBJECT — A little series about the things I’ve collected, the stories behind them, and why I couldn’t leave them behind.

The Merchants Warehouse South Pacific Fabrics Pablo Veiga Milly Dent • Sydney Nathalie Capitaine Arthur G Elliott Clarke Textiles Ascraft Textiles

22/10/2026

Apparently, the colour obsession started early.

Mum chose the jumper. And the haircut.

Fortunately, I inherited her eye for colour rather than her hairdressing skills. South Pacific Fabrics Jonathan Adler Finesse Upholstery grazia&co Dulux Australia Cadrys DESIGN BY THEM Pablo Veiga jackmilenkovic The Merchants Warehouse Nightworks Studio Bari Ziperstein Tom Fereday Dior Mahnken Granitemarbleworks

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Surry Hills, NSW
2010

Telephone

+61295502706

Website

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