Hotel Sorrento

Name: Kustom Timber Flooring - Geelong
Address: 10/350 Pakington St, Newtown, VIC, 3220, Australia
Telephone: (03) 4240 3499
Price range: $$

Hotel Sorrento

builder

Moonah Construction & Project Management

Architect

Moonah Construction & Project Management

Architect

Habitat

finish

Calypso

pattern

Plank

Hotel Sorrento guest suite hallway floored in Kustom Timber Habitat Calypso 190mm engineered oak, leading to a sitting area with sheer curtains and coastal light.

The Brief

Some places become part of your story. For many Victorians, Hotel Sorrento is one of them, woven into summers past and present. Where celebrations are shared, traditions continue, and new memories are made with every visit.

Hotel Sorrento has welcomed guests through decades of changing seasons, and its recent transformation was never about starting over. The brief was to introduce a refined new chapter while holding onto everything people have always loved about the place: the warmth, the familiarity, the sense of arriving somewhere that already feels like yours.

Hotel Sorrento guest suite wardrobe nook with a mini bar, robes, and travertine-clad joinery.

Hotel Sorrento guest suite floored in Kustom Timber Habitat Calypso 190mm engineered oak, with a sheer-curtained window and a bouclé armchair overlooking the coastline.

Hotel Sorrento guest suite lounge floored in Kustom Timber Habitat Calypso 190mm engineered oak, viewed through a travertine-clad doorway toward a sheer-curtained window.

Hotel Sorrento guest suite floored in Kustom Timber Habitat Calypso 190mm engineered oak, with a bouclé sofa and armchair framed by sheer curtains and coastal light.

The Floor

Throughout the new guest suites, we supplied our engineered European oak, Calypso, from our Habitat selection in 190mm wide boards. A warm, inviting foundation with natural texture and soft tonal variation that draws on the coastline just beyond the windows, without competing with the view.

It’s a floor built for a different kind of everyday: not one household, but a steady procession of guests, season after season, for as long as Hotel Sorrento keeps welcoming people back. Projects like this continue to shape how we think about commercial timber flooring, where experience, longevity and materiality come together.

Build by Moonah Construction & Project Management, Architecture by Six Degrees, photography by Kate Shanasy.