EXTEND Consultation, House in Malahide

This is a long overdue mail, with regard the above project which we undertook last autumn, subsequent to your visit on 9^th April 2015. We are delighted with the end result, which has been life changing for us as a family and would like to sincerely thank you for all your advice.

We absolutely love the amount of light that floods this south facing room. The light regularly bounces against the wall dividing the kitchen and lounge, which is fantastic. We love the way you advised us to re-centre the utility room door which now allows storage on the left hand side of this room. With the front door located in the middle of our house, when the kitchen door is open, this allows a clear view to the rear garden with the rear glazing centred. Your measurements perfectly allowed for the positioning of the kitchen along the exterior wall of the house, with a 1m tiled area across to the island. The high stools again fit neatly beneath overhang of the island and equally on the far side of this room, the seating for the living area fit perfectly. Despite having to have the pocket door track replaced with a stronger track, the ability to open these doors in such a space saving manner is fantastic, giving a huge sense of spaciousness. The opal glass door to the hall has assisted in brightening this area. The plumber was not keen on the vertical radiators and convinced us to get standard radiators. The only problem being that we have failed to include an area to house a desk and computer.

Again, we want to thank you for all your ideas and advice, which you managed to condense into two hours and also the enthusiasm you instilled in us to undertake this project.

M & S Byrne, Malahide. 19 May 2016

RENOVATE Consultation: House in Dublin

I just wanted to say that we both really valued your time on Tuesday – it helped us massively in moving our thinking along – our only mistake was not meeting you sooner! We also really liked your style – we found it very collaborative and easy to work with and would very happily recommend you to anyone in need of architectural expertise..

We’ve passed your sketches on to the engineer who is due to come back to us tomorrow.. If we have any queries we will give you a shout

Mark is going to work on his conversion to metric! so thanks for the link 🙂

Sharon C, 31 March 2016

Madeline G, Clontarf, re extending & re-configuring home to suit family of 5:

“Thanks so much for spending the time with us to focus our minds. It was so beneficial & we are really excited about bringing all your ideas to fruition & getting this project started!” 03 February 2015

Seán K, Sallins, 02 February 2015 (following re-design of semi-d prior to construction):

“Just to let you know we have had the developers over to our place in advance of the next launch of properties in the estate. They wanted to show a prospective buyer what could potentially be done with the space because they think we did a great job!” (See also 14 June & 16 Dec 2014).

Miriam, Rathfarnham, 31 January 2015 (re re-configuration & extension to Ground Floor:

“Hi Eva, Firstly just wanted to say thanks for today. We’re both thrilled with how it went, and the different ideas and suggestions that came out of the session. We’ve actually decided to do another session based on the upstairs/attic. We feel then we can look at the house as a whole, and move forward to the next stage with the full picture in our minds. Maybe towards the end Feb you might be able to fit us in for another session? I look forward to hearing from you.”

Niamh, Glasnevin, 29 January 2015 (re layout of new Home Office/Garden Room):

“Eva, Thanks so much for the great practical session yesterday which I got huge benefit from in terms of clearing my head! Some of the changes you made, while simple, will make a huge difference to how we can use our new space. “

Seán K, Sallins, 16 December 2015 (following re-design of semi-d prior to construction):

“Well, we finally moved into our new home on Saturday, just in time for Christmas! We are delighted with the space, precipitated by your design of course!!! Then armed with many interior zines and the internet we came up with the rest; colours, materials, lighting etc. We’re very happy with it and the builders, kitchen guys etc. keep saying we have the nicest kitchen/space of all the completed houses so far. I’m not sure if they just say that to all the ladies 🙂 or if they genuinely mean it, but we’ll take the compliments anyway. Please see attached some hastily taken phone photos just to give you an idea of what it looks like. Anyway, thanks again for your design. We are just delighted with it 🙂 (See also 14 June 2014 & 02 Feb 2015).

Maria, Limerick, 02 October 2014 (re re-configuration of Ground Floor):

“Thanks so much for coming to us on Monday morning. The sitting room alone has been a massive improvement and we now have a good plan of what we want to aim towards with the rest of downstairs.”

Mary, Knocklyon. 14 September 2014 (re design of bedroom and walk-in wardrobe):

“I just wanted to show you our recently completed fab new walk in wardrobe and bedroom shelving. The joiner you recommended to do the work for us was great and his work was excellent – just passing on the recommendation if any of your other clients are looking.”.

Miriam, Killiney, 27 August 2014 (re re-configuration of bedroom and kitchen/dining/family room):

“I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful ideas. We were delighted at how much we got from the consultation. We changed the bed around in our bedroom the next day and couldn’t believe the difference its made to the room. The builder started the building work this morning on the reconfigured kitchen/family room. I’ll send you some photos when its finished next month!”

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