New Suburban Dublin House Extension Project

Suburban House Extension & Alterations, South Dublin.  

The brief for this project was to extend an existing semi-detached house to the side and rear to create an enlarged open-plan kitchen, dining and lounge area to be the heart of the house with an enhanced relationship wiht the rear garden.  

A study that could be transformed into an additional spare bedroom for visitors along with a new utility room and downstairs shower room was also included.  The design is flooded with light from sliding glazed doors and large frameless roof lights.  The side and rear extension roofs are carefully designed to fit between tall separating brick walls.  

The project included the design of the kitchen and a range of other custom joinery units such as a study wall-mounted desk, a hidden fold-down bed, a corner storage unit with a dog bed built-in below and floor to ceiling wardrobes.

The worlds most beautiful mid-century furniture...

...in a stunning historic home.

One of the worlds most enviable collections of mid-century furniture - a living museum in the residence of Knud Erik Hansen, managing director of Carl Hansen & Søn and grandson of the company's iconic founder.  Hansen has transformed this impressive Danish estate into a comfortable family home, filling it with stunning furniture and preserving the old property’s charm.

The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes visits the residence of the managing director of Carl Hansen & Søn and grandson of the company's iconic founder. Hansen has transformed an impressive Danish estate into a comfortable family home, filling it with beautiful furniture and preserving the property’s charm. Published by Gestalten, 

Most architecture books and magazines show houses that are overly polished to perfection and manicured to the extent that it is hard to imagine anybody actually lives there - especially families with children.  We think they seem to miss the point that homes are meant to be inhabited, not just published.  Why does this happen?

This home appeals to our sensibilities and belief that a home represents an ongoing story of a family and as such should respond to and accommodate that life and all that it entails.  It also appeals because of our experiences of having worked on many beautiful old and protected structure houses that require careful conservation along with the skills to sensitively remodel, renovate and extend, to create comfortable and accomodating homes for modern family life.

• More photos of this house: Decoist
• Carl Hansen & Son Furniture

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