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Refurbishment – family dwelling

Brief

The task was the comprehensive refurbishment of spaces, services and materials for this family dwelling. A pool-side outbuilding has recently been added.

Solutions

Our proposal would allow:

The kitchen to open up towards the garden, the utility room to become part plant-room (so controls could be centralised) and the second floor to be stripped bare to address overheating, lack of daylight and storage. This creates a new sequence of bathroom, stairwell and bedroom spaces in the roof.

Common to all floors was the renewal of mechanical and electrical systems, heating and water services.

Materials

Oak flooring gives a unity to the ground floor recreation spaces and porcelain tilling is used for the kitchen, utility and bathrooms. For the extensive storage joinery, simple painted ply doors and drawers were used.

Wood fibre insulations proved very successful in overcoming long term overheating in the roof spaces.

Family home refurbishment - living rooms

Family dwelling refurbishment - second floor

Family dwelling refurbishment first floor — Ground floor plan

Family dwelling refurbishment upper floors — First (left) and second floorplans