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Sitting room with a teak daybed and tall green-framed windows

Wisma Jati

A 1930s Indies house in Kotabaru, restored into a quiet eight-room guesthouse.

Project
Wisma Jati
Client
The Pambayun family
Location
Kotabaru, Yogyakarta
Area
640 m²
Completed
2025
Duration
11 months
Scope
Restoration, interior design, custom furniture, oversight
Photos
Basile Morin (openly licensed)
Drawing no.
KA-01-2025

Brief

The Pambayun family inherited their grandfather's house: four-metre ceilings, cracked encaustic tiles, and teak wardrobes too heavy to move. They wanted the house to live again without losing its memory.

Approach

The encaustic tiles were re-pressed in Kotagede from the old floor's pattern, and every intact piece went back into the corridor. Teak doors and windows were planed, oiled and rehung on new hinges rather than replaced.

Bedrooms moved to the east side so guests wake with the morning light. The front sitting room became the place everyone gathers: a teak daybed, a brass floor lamp, and tall windows that are always open.

Plan · 640 m²

How the rooms fit together.

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20.00 7.00 6.00 7.00 14.00 Sitting room 7.00 × 6.00 Lobby 6.00 × 8.00 Library 7.00 × 6.00 Room 1 7.00 × 8.00 Courtyard 6.00 × 6.00 Room 2 7.00 × 5.00 Bath 3.50 × 3.00 Vanity 3.50 × 3.00
Lobby: a coffee table cut from a single teak board, a candle at its centre.
Lobby: a coffee table cut from a single teak board, a candle at its centre.
East bedroom with a linen canopy; the house's original teak wardrobes frame the door.
The library in grandfather's old study, shelves rebuilt to the height of the window frames.
The library in grandfather's old study, shelves rebuilt to the height of the window frames.
Bathrooms: a freestanding tub beneath three windows, basins set on teak tables.
The corridor, with a teak-framed mirror and the old tiles relaid.
The corridor, with a teak-framed mirror and the old tiles relaid.

Sketch → built

What was drawn is what was built.

Sitting room with a teak daybed and tall green-framed windows
Sketch Built

Material palette

5 materials, chosen at one table.

LT-03 Encaustic tile Kotagede, Yogyakarta
KY-01 Teak Jepara, Central Java
DN-02 Lime plaster Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta
LG-07 Brass Juwana, Central Java
KN-05 Linen Pekalongan, Central Java

“Kinan never sold us a style. Kinan asked what time we wake up, then moved the bedrooms to the east side. Our guests always mention the morning light.”

Raden Ayu Sekar Pambayun · Owner, Wisma Jati
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