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# Kin Ridge Retreat, concept d'intérieur | Merrin Ashby Studio

## Concept

### The Shade Line

*A line of sun across a concrete floor inside a new cabin*

*Timber batten screen casting striped shadow on a pale wall*

*Cabin bedroom open to the rainforest canopy*

*Charcoal wet room with a skylight washing one wall*

*Merrin Ashby Studio*

## The brief

### What you asked us for

*Your brief, back to you*

Sixteen cabins that ask guests to slow down without ever feeling like a lesson in it, on a ridge where the sun is the thing everyone is hiding from by eleven.

You told us in February that you had stayed in too many retreats that photograph beautifully and bake by lunchtime, and that you would not spend A$1.2 million furnishing that mistake.

You also asked for rooms your housekeeping team of six can turn in 35 minutes. We have held both as limits on the design. If either has moved since February, tell us before you read further.

## The idea

Every cabin is planned around where the shade falls at two in the afternoon, and everything else in the room answers to that line.

## The rooms

### The main room

*Cabin main room with the bed set back from a sliding timber screen*

### The wet room

*Charcoal microcement wet room lit by one skylight*

### The dining pavilion

*Open-sided timber dining pavilion with long tables under a deep roof*

### The material palette

*Samples of timber, concrete, microcement, linen and brass*

## Against the brief

### How it answers what you asked

Three things you told us mattered, and what the scheme does about each. The last one cost us an idea we liked, and we'd rather you knew.

### Cabins that stay cool

*Stripes of shade on a burnished concrete floor*

### A 35 minute turnaround

*Flush modular timber joinery with a linen drawer open*

### Nothing that needs explaining

*Plain corner of a cabin with a low window onto ferns*

## The numbers

### What this concept does to the numbers

From our daylight model, the VR walkthrough and the first-pass FF&E schedule. All figures in AUD, excluding GST. These will firm up in developed design.

### FF&E per cabin

**A$71,400**

### Cooler floor at 2pm

**9°C**

### Timed cabin turnaround

**33 min**

### Longest lead time

**14 wks**

## After you choose

### What your decision sets moving

Each stage depends on the one before, and the supplier lead times leave little slack before the March 2028 opening.

### 1. You approve, by 28 May

Approving locks the idea, the five materials and the cabin plan. Fabrics, finishes and furniture stay open until August.

### 2. Developed design, from 31 May

Joinery details, the lighting plan and the reflected ceiling plan, drawn over four weeks and shared in the live model as we go.

### 3. Prototype cabin, 12 July

One full-size bay built at the joinery workshop in Yandina. You and your housekeeping team test it for a day before anything is repeated sixteen times.

### 4. Specification sign-off, 27 August

The priced FF&E schedule, line by line. Orders go out the following week, with upholstery the longest at 14 weeks.

## Approve the direction

### One decision, by Friday 28 May

If you would like changes, comment on this page and we'll revise it within a week. A later answer moves the prototype, and the workshop's next free slot after 12 July is in late August.

### Prepared by

**Merrin Ashby**
Founder and design lead, Merrin Ashby Studio

7 Quandong Lane, Noosaville QLD 4566
merrin@merrinashby.com

### For approval by

**Lena and Hamish Orr**
Owners, Kin Ridge Retreat

We've held Tuesday 25 May at 10am at the site, if you would like to walk it through first.

### Approve The Shade Line

By confirming, you approve this concept as the direction for all sixteen cabins and the dining pavilion. Developed design starts on 31 May 2027, and we will invoice the next stage of the design fee, A$38,640 plus GST. Later changes to the plan or the five materials may move the fee and the date.