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Jonas Ingerstedt

Entrée fonctionnelle et accueillante avec peinture chaleureuse et rangement sur mesure. La teinte “Le Parfum” de Ressource enveloppe l’entrée d’une atmosphère douce et pleine de caractère. La banquette sur mesure combine confort et rangement, créant un espace à la fois pratique et élégant dès les premiers pas dans l’appartement.

La rénovation complète d'un appartement familial Hausmannien insufflé de modernité et d'audace.

Vue sur une porte en arche ouvrant sur un couloir aux murs vert sauge foncé. En haut du mur, une verrière en bois ajoute du caractère et laisse passer la lumière.

Entering this beautiful property evokes the feeling of plunging head-first into the rabbit hole from "Alice in Wonderland". You are not only entering a house, but a magical space of comfort and style.

Cet espace de distribution est réduit à sa fonctionnalité primaire et marque une séquence colorée. Sa porte coulissante d'un bois brut rappelle le bois du sol qui fermée, donne l'impression que le bois remonte jusqu'au plafond

Like many 1920s houses, this double-fronted home in Muswell Hill had been extended haphazardly over the years, preventing any natural flow and blocking light from a large part of the footprint. Our clients wanted more space – and better space – for their family. Our first move was to unlock the ground floor by clearing two sight lines. One leads straight through the house from the front door to the bottom of the garden, and the second looks up – with the help of a new galleried staircase – though the upper storeys to the sky. Inspired by Horace Gifford’s airy east-coast beach houses, we allowed the extended open-plan living areas to link and overlap, giving room to circulate without compromising on space. We’d already set out these core moves when our clients asked us to push the project further. Could we add a basement too? Our response was to challenge them back: what exactly would they use the space for, and how would the extra area justify the considerable expense? Having tested a few different scenarios we all agreed that this was a great opportunity to embed social sustainability into the design. We could future-proof the house so Nicola and Stanford, and their extended family, can continue to live in it indefinitely no matter how their lifestyle might change. The new basement, although it’s currently used as a gym, screening room and bar, can potentially become a self-contained apartment in the future, allowing multiple generations to live under the same roof. It has its own bathroom and, via a sunken courtyard garden sandwiched between the original house and timber-framed extension, outside space and plenty of natural light. And, as the couple’s sons gain more independence, a pair of self-contained bedrooms inserted into the second-floor loft space offer a similar degree of privacy.

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