2023 kicked off with a much anticipated project for Mr and Mrs Patience Makes Perfect, redoing 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, scullery and creating a new sun room.
We had worked together a few years prior, renovating the granny flat apartment on the bottom floor, which resulted in her jokingly becoming my unofficial marketing manager, kindly referring many clients my way.
The BIG upstairs renovation now involved relocating the kitchen to create a better flow and use of space, and with planning permission being such a fast and efficient process (note the sarcasm), it was some time before we got the go ahead to begin.
The beauty of taking time is that good decision making gets done, and we tackled the hurdles and embraced the problem solving of this project with thought and discussion. It also meant we started the project with great excitement and I was thrilled to see their beautiful dog again who became a firm favorite on site.
Whilst we always work to a schedule, not having the intense deadline looming enabled the team to work efficiently. Renovation is not an exact science and daily challenges are present which we need to overcome. Some are big and some are small, all are solvable with some thought and care taken, but it’s a constant pressure. You are working in an environment with an insane amount of moving parts and the more you enter the process with patience and rational thought, I think enables the end result to become more and more successful. For this reason, working with clients who are kind, considerate and rational, makes the process far more enjoyable, which it really should be.
Entering the process really understanding what you want the non negotiables to be and allowing some room in the process for the project to evolve, enables exciting design to take place. The home itself is a very old Oranjezicht property and so working with skilled craftsmen who could take the care necessary to restore aspects of the woodwork onsite was key to the finishing off of this project to a high spec. Their master en suite remains one of my favorite bathrooms ever done!
The Brief:
Renovate the top floor of the home, relocating a kitchen to new position, and redoing 2 bathrooms.
BEFORE:
The Transformation:
- redesign and renovate 2 bathrooms with new tiles, fixtures, custom joinery and fittings.
- redesign and renovate kitchen with new joinery
- redesign and renovate scullery with new joinery
- removal of walls and nibs to enlarge space kitchen space and enable new positions
- sand and seal parquet flooring
- new sunroom, tiling of floor and glazing work
- updating electricals and replacing existing light fittings with new
- paintwork throughout
- new wineroom
- new lighting, furniture and window treatments
Biggest Challenge:
Protecting those parquet floors and choosing the right glass for their sun room. To this day I now know more about the intricacies of energy efficient glass than I feel I should!
Best feature:
Again, so many. Master en suite for sure, ombre tiling of sunroom floor as well as the port hole window in passage.
AFTER:
