The Great Indoors

The Great Indoors is a strategic and creative design consultancy CREATING BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENTS in architecture, interior design and branded environments for retail, hospitality AND OFFICE projects. OUR OFFICE IS BASED IN MANLY ON SYDNEY’S NORTHERN BEACHES.

We build long-lasting relationships and work in close collaboration with our clients.

WE UNDERSTAND HOW TO CONNECT AND CURATE YOUR BRAND WITH A 3D SPACE. A SPACE THAT IS ENGAGING WITH CUSTOMER AND USER EXPERIENCE.

OUR SERVICES

COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE FOR RETAIL HOSPITALITY AND OFFICE DESIGN PROJECTS
RESIDENTIAL HOMES, ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS.
BRAND DESIGN
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
DESIGN MANAGEMENT
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT PROJECTS
INTERIOR FITOUT & CONSTRUCTION
CAD DOCUMENTATION
BUILDING APPROVALS FOR CDC AND DA
LANDLORD AND DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS

CASE STUDY PROJECTS

y-3 ADIDAS

Sportswear giant Adidas’ streetwear label Y-3 has opened a new store in Westfield Sydney.
The Great Indoors worked closely with local retailer ‘Sorry Thanks I Love You’ to bring the new international retail store design concept for Y-3 Adidas store to life.

Y-3 WESTFIELD SYDNEY

LIFE GRAIN

Life Grain is a new interior design food concept within the new atrium at Ku-ring-gai Hornsby Hospital. Life Grain has created a new food menu with meal choices for grab n go across a wide selection of tastes for bakery, hot and cold buffet style food and good coffee.

LIFE GRAIN HORNSBY

MOJO HOMES

Mojo Homes Inspiration Centre for sales and marketing suite for customers looking to purchase house and land packages. The design of the space allows customers to explore and research the home and purchase options through both physical and digital information points.
DRIVEN X DESIGN - DESIGN AWARD WINNER AT SYDNEY DESIGN AWARDS 2022, LONDON DESIGN AWARDS 2022 & AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AWARDS 2023.

INSPIRATION CENTRE

IMA SUSHI

IMA Sushi is a new food retail concept for eat in and take away sushi.
The Great Indoors (interior design) in partnership with Stevens & Co (brand) were asked to create an exciting new brand and interior design concept from the ground up for a sushi eat in and take away food retail business that is creatively strong and has the ability to be rolled out into multiple site applications.
SYDNEY DESIGN AWARDS WINNER 2021 FOR BEST RETAIL GRAB N GO

IMA SUSHI BONDI

O’GORMAN & PARTNERS

REAL ESTATE INTERIOR DESIGN
O'Gorman & Partners Estate Agency has completed a brand & architectural make over and created a hosted customer experience visitor area.
The site occupies a prominent corner site at 130 Avenue Road, Mosman. The business has been well established within the Mosman area for 35 years but was in need of a new brand and complimentary architecture to boost their market position within a very competitive real estate landscape.

OGP MOSMAN

LATEST NEWS

1001 OPTOMETRY

NEW RETAIL STORE DESIGN - Coming Soon
An established Optometry & Eyecare service and retail store network receives a new brand and interior store design.
‘1001 Optometry the market leaders for over 25 years provide expert advice for optometry and eyeware and pride themselves on their attention to detail’
New brand design courtesy of VMLY&R

LATEST NEWS

NEW CAFE & SUSHI KIOSKS

We are looking forward to sharing the new food concepts opening soon for Plume (coffee & bakery), Tsubu (Sushi) and Life Grain (healthy food options cafe). An integral part of providing daily choice and healthy eating options for hospital visitors and NSW healthcare staff workers. Within the new acute services development building that forms part of the 1st major development works in 25 years to Prince of Wales Randwick Hospital.

DESIGN AWARDS

DRIVEN X DESIGN

Mojo Homes Inspiration Centre sales and marketing suite for customers looking to purchase house and land sales.
THE GREAT INDOORS received the AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AWARDS for Best interior design flagships and showrooms.

DESIGN AWARDS

THE GREAT INDOORS received the SYDNEY DESIGN AWARDS for (Best interior design flagships and showrooms) & LONDON DESIGN AWARDS (Best interior design international experience centre).

SYDNEY DESIGN AWARDS

IMA SUSHI
IMA Sushi is a new food retail concept for eat in and take away sushi.
SYDNEY DESIGN AWARDS WINNER 2021 FOR BEST RETAIL GRAB N GO

WHO WE ARE

FREE THINKING

Free hand drawing allows free thinking. Expressing proposed design solutions through sketches and mood imagery and creating a dialogue between the design team and the client.
Designing beautiful and functional environments requires an intimate understanding of how spaces work. Making spaces connect with people requires a sense of humanity and theatre. Designing a multi-dimensional space on a one-dimensional screen simply doesn’t allow tor the expression, free-thinking and intuition that comes from a free-hand sketch.

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

We are customer experience specialists. Our rigorous strategy-first approach is balanced by true creative freedom, exploring freehand design and big ideas to transform ordinary spaces into extraordinary experiences.

BEST IN CLASS DESIGN

We are gold winners for Melbourne and Sydney Design Awards for best retail experience and best service retail design for our projects with Officeworks and Clearly Eyeware. Working with our strategy and brand partners to deliver high on experience levels for the customer and new market product shifts and retail service.

MANAGE THE DESIGN

We take control and manage all aspects of the project and suppliers until the job is done.
Managing the build to budget and working with our trusted construction relationships is vital.
Seeing the job we set out to do come to fruition in the way we envisage is our top priority. Managing the project to ensure we reach those is key.

HOME WITH HEART

We have worked with real estate and property market leaders. We have developed key design concepts and built marketing sales suites for house and land packages and estate agent sales reception offices with our brand and construction partners. We believe in driving individual design concepts in line with a brand, customer experience, service design and business objectives.

FOODIE EXPERIENCES

We have had the pleasure to work with intelligent and passionate food and beverage restaurant and cafe owners across Sydney. New foodie experiences located in everyday suburban locations and those with breathtaking water views of Sydney like this project pictured for The Boatshed at La Perouse. We have designed coffee and baguette takeaways, chocolate and gelato cafes, sweet dessert kiosks and casual dining experiences with eat in dining or food to go in high streets and shopping centres.

DESIGNED FOR WORK

Our team has created workplace, office interior design and education projects for banking and finance, private education and training, information services and real estates. Our creative approach, space planning methods blended with a balance of (ABW) activity based working has enriched new workplace environments to be flexible and enjoyable for clients and visitors.

MARKET PLACE

We have created new concepts for eat in food retail interior design, grocers markets, combined fresh food retail experiences in shopping centre precincts with our strategy and brand partners.
Holistic branded environments design that celebrates the love of food and creates an 'earth to table' food experience - it’s not all about coffee & cakes!

CREATIVE FAST FOOD & DRIVE THRU

Over the last 5 years we have created new QSR concepts for Australia's biggest brands KFC, Red Rooster and Guzman Y Gomez.
Located in shopping centres, high street urban and drive thru suburban. We provide complete creative design concepts, cad documentation and design management services.
We work collaboratively as a team with marketing, brand designers, facilities & equipment, project managers and builders.