Translucent navigation without layout displaying beneath status bar

I am using the new Android 4.4 FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION flag to turn the navigation bar (back, home button etc) at the bottom of the screen translucent. This works fine but a side effect of this is the layout of my Activity now displays beneath the status bar at the top of the screen (even though I have not set the status bar as being translucent). I want to avoid a hacky fix I.e. applying padding to the top of the layout.

Is there a way to set the navigation as translucent whilst ensuring the status bar appears normally and does NOT allow the layout to display beneath it?

The code I am using is as follows:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
    Window w = getWindow();
    w.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION);
}

Thanks