Hotel Hotel Ground Floor Interior, Canberra, Australia, by March Studio. Photograph by John Gollings

Inside Festival 2015: a converted stable home featuring a treehouse-like bedroom and a hotel featuring a sculptural timber entrance are among the first category winners at this year's Inside Festival awards (+ slideshow).

Revealed Wednesday as part of the Inside World Festival of Interiors in Singapore, the winners also include a Bangkok restaurant and a Singapore lifestyle store. Five more winners will be revealed Thursday, and each category winner will be put forward for the title World Interior of the Year, which will be selected on Friday.