house A (construction record)

09/10/2010 by werner maritsas

Construction records of  house A

Total redesign + gut renovation for a small apartment with a big garden, v close to Acropolis, Athens.

With a good study and a careful supervision on the construction, this tiny space is turned into a spacious fully equipped house.

apartment and garden – previous condition,  4 rooms and a corridor in 32 sq.m!

my idea is to free all space from unnecessary walls , design build-in functions to create free space. 

scroll down for some photographs taken through the construction, from day one.

The opening to the garden gives the apartment a great view advantage,  but the opposite wall  has 2 small dark windows looking into a shaft..

Increasing the size of the windows  to create the illusion of a big window is inevitable

finally 2 big windows  created on the gloomy shaft wall 

Enriching the existing soil w/new, after the drainage system,   with was not an easy job in the center of Athens!

gardening + recycling the 60′s sink from old house kitchen for the BBQ

After few unattractive but necessary infrastructural works  a new phase begins and the studio looks less like a skeleton.

The bamboo floor -bellow covered for protection- looks perfect with the aluminium  Schuco  frames and the metal  Zehnder radiators:}

fitting the open kitchen cupboards, electrical appliances and lights, using all available space is critical :} sms 4 wife too

a careful fitting of the wardrobe and desk furniture, with the handcraft curves, again creating storage on every available space.

following  is a  floor plan of  the less than three square meters of  bathroom area, created where the old corridor was.

looks so simple, but actually was a design riddle for many structural reasons too long to mention here..

the bathroom has also access to the storage area created above the new corridor. 

the solution of an in tow glass divider for the bathroom wall was essential due to limited space

the  final result of  the LED lighting inside the the glass wall 

finally i get to see some results… time 4 the painters again…

good things come to those who wait:}

almost done… proper photos coming soon...

Post navigation

← entrance

House E →