Sync Architecture — Woodcut Roman Grey chevron and European oak across a five-bedroom residence on one of Toorak's quietest addresses
Set in a quiet cul-de-sac between Toorak and Hawksburn Villages, Tashinny Residence is a five-bedroom Sync Architecture home built around a stone-and-glass façade and a central shimmering pool. When Sync Architecture and Concept Build brought us into the project, the floor specification was settled: Woodcut Roman Grey chevron in European oak, meeting Woodcut New Grey Tundra chevron stone tiles at the base of the staircase. What the build needed from us was the installation precision to make that specification read as designed.
Chevron at this scale is unforgiving. Each board is cut at 45 degrees and set to meet symmetrically at a point, with a continuous centre line running the length of the room. Any deviation amplifies across the entire floor. Our setting-out begins before a single board is laid: datum lines established at the true centre of each space, pattern modelled outward to every threshold, board selection read individually for grain and tone, and then hand-setting piece by piece so the finished floor reads cleanly from any doorway and any angle.
“Roman Grey has a muted and washed tone, sitting in between a brown and a grey. It pairs beautifully with contemporary and monochrome finishes — like the New Grey Tundra chevron tiles it is laid with at the bottom of the stairs in the home.”
Sync Architecture
The transition at the staircase base was the most demanding detail. Two chevron patterns, one in Roman Grey timber and one in New Grey Tundra stone, sharing a single geometry across a shared threshold. Getting the chevron lines to meet cleanly across both materials required direct coordination with the stonemasons during setting-out, so the V-points of the timber aligned with the V-points of the stone. It's the kind of interface that clients don't always notice on first walk-through, and always notice thereafter.
The broader work was the rhythm of a live construction site. Tashinny ran a dense trade programme, and we installed borders and transitions ahead of the joinery, protected the floor through every subsequent trade, and delivered a deep clean at handover so the first time the owners saw the floor unwrapped was the first day they lived in the home. The finished project is the result of a seamless collaboration between Sync Architecture, Concept Build, Woodcut, and Mastercraft Flooring. Each held their part of the brief to the same high standard.
A chevron reads as one clean line, or it doesn’t. There is no in-between.
Oliver Davis, Founder