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Character Home.

ArchiPro Project Summary - Thoughtful renovation of a heritage character home in Epsom, enhancing kitchen and bathroom amenities while restoring original architectural details and charm.

Title:: Character Home in Epsom
Architect:: Salmond Reed Architects
Category:: Residential
Photographers:: Salmond Reed Architects

This project entailed rearranging internal spaces to achieve modern standards of kitchen and bathroom amenity and improved light quality for our clients, whilst maintaining a sensitive regard for the significant heritage character of their early twentieth century house designed by British-trained architect, Benjamin Chillwell, (later partner in the well-known firm of Chilwell and Trevithick).

The brief also called for reinstatement of character features such as the cupboard under the stairs, improvement to the existing stair balustrade detail, installation of wooden panelling in the foyer. Typical Chilwell details and motifs were successfully integrated to restore the stair and ceilings to more closely resemble the original style.

Externally, the closed-in verandah at the upper level was taken back to its original open form and the distinctive curve of the 1909 entry porch was restored to reinforce the distinctive charm of this character home.

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DistemperPorter's Paints

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RANGE COOKERS & FIREPLACES

HIGH-END KITCHEN APPLIANCES

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RANGE COOKERS & FIREPLACES

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COMMERCIAL FURNITURE

RESIDENTIAL FURNITURE

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COMMERCIAL FURNITURE

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Salmond Reed Architects

Architects

Auckland CBD, Auckland

salmondreed.co.nz

Salmond Reed Architects. Salmond Reed Architects are an award winning multi-disciplinary architectural design, and heritage conservation practice. Founded in 1993 by the late NZIA Gold Medal recipient Jeremy Salmond. We bring over thirty years’ of nationwide experience and expertise to your project, whether it involves the sensitive adaptation of a character building or the design of a contemporary structure in a sensitive environmental setting (or, indeed, a combination of both.) Directors Rosalie Stanley, Lloyd Macomber, and Philip Graham, lead a staff of around twenty talented registered architects and graduates, chartered building surveyors, heritage consultants and support staff, all of whom share a resolve to deliver optimum project solutions to meet client aspirations and budgets. SALMOND REED ARCHITECTS: Contemporary with character.