B LISTED TOWNHOUSE, GLASGOW

The radical re-ordering of the floorplan of a large 4 bedroom family home, now betters support our clients living needs and makes better use of space. The alterations were under permitted development, and no planning permission was required.

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The kitchen space has doubled, the small WC is now a walk-in shower room, an office in a room with a large window and large utility room with its own window (natural daylight and natural ventilation), were created, a pantry off the kitchen was also included, and a large walk-in cloakroom off the main hallway, along with other hidden storage areas completed the transformed floorplan.

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A feature “interior link” was also added to join the new kitchen with the existing sitting room, allowing our clients views from both the East and West sides of the home from both the sitting room and kitchen.

No extension was added and no bedrooms were lost – this is still a 4 bedroom townhouse, but with a much larger and more proportionate kitchen with space for a luxury island, pantry and utility off the kitchen as well as the vastly improved bathing spaces and storage.

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The “extra space” was found by a deeply thought through concept design process, where the floorplans were “taken apart” on the drawing board and put back together again in a new and much improved order, specific to how our clients wanted to live. The design also sought to keep structural intervention to a minimum. Only three new door openings were required to the existing interior walls – all other existing walls remain as is.

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Architecture can sometimes feel like magic. This project is an example of this. We passionately believe that re-designing floorplans into luxury spaces like this, is possible, when the appropriate amount of time is spent with both client and designer on the early stage of the design process.