Dramatic Designs

We help our clients create dramatic designs that radically transform their living experience. Whether it’s by altering the structure itself or by remodeling a kitchen or interior, specific changes in the features or layout of your home can have a profound impact. Here are some examples.

Letting more light in

You can create a beautiful contemporary home that uses modern glass technology to allow the maximum amount of natural light and heat into your space while allowing you to soak in the exterior landscape. This can also be one of the advantages of renovating a country home, where there aren’t so many houses around you is that you can take great advantage of the surrounding exterior space while maintaining your sense of privacy.

Marrying the old with the new

We can take what’s beautiful about your traditional home and add some modern flair while creating a sense of connection between the different spaces. We build livings spaces that are clever by design. When we initially meet with you to discuss your dream home, we’re taking in what you need and what you want, and from there, we’ll figure out a design that exceeds your expectations.

We can add those elements that bring utility to your space while enabling a minimal look in other areas. For example, a modern pantry space gives you easy accessibility to everything you need for cooking while freeing your kitchen space of clutter to enable fine lines and beautiful contours that make your spaces beautiful. 

Dramatic designs that make working from home a pleasure

Working from home is a different thing altogether when you’re in a cleverly constructed space designed with your work in mind. We can implement a modern office space for you, with natural light and correct placement so that you’re getting that natural light but without the glare or eye strain as you work at your computer. Planning the space around your office desk means we can take full advantage of the light, the outer landscape, and other features of your home to deliver a comfortable, remarkable home office that can make work feel light and easy throughout the day. 

 It is crucial to have a sense of separation between work and play, especially when you work from home. Re-thinking your living space allows you to create something new, like a chillout area. A different physical space to enter will enable you to enter a different mental and emotional space. And these are just some of the dramatic changes that can occur in your home when you take intelligent design to your living space. 

How Passive Heating Works

Many of us grew up in traditional homes designed using old building technologies in Ireland. Today it’s now possible to create living spaces that are exceptionally well insulated such that natural sunlight is enough to keep your home warm and comfortable all year round. Passive heating can massively reduce your energy costs and transform your living experience. And while it may not always be easy to achieve full passive heating in an older home, you may be able to reap much of the benefits in a new home extension.

How Passive Heating Works

Passive heating is firstly about patching up the ‘leaks’ in your home. That is, identifying areas where heat can escape. Once this is achieved, you can then look at natural heating such as solar gain as a source of free heat energy. To ‘plug those leaks’,  the first step is to insulate. Attic insulation comes first since heat rises and this is followed by insulating the walls. Most homes in Ireland today have some degree of insulation in the attic. Some have wall insulation to some extent. However, it’s amazing how much heat can still escape from seemingly tiny gaps.

The next step in plugging those leaks is to improve airtightness.  Your design and build team will install an airtight membrane throughout the building. Using testing equipment, they will identify areas where heat can still escape through walls, windows, doors and attic spaces. They will then plug that up so that your home becomes draught-proof. Cold chills can become a thing of the past.

how passive heating works

Direct Gain

If you have south-facing windows in your home, you may get all the heat you need during the day. For example, with an open-plan living space and large windows built with modern materials (such as highly insulated triple glazed windows), your highly insulated, airtight home will store up that natural heat. And you may only need a very small amount of heating in the evenings to keep things comfortable. 

BER Ratings

A Building Energy Rating (BER) Certificate helps to classify your home’s energy efficiency. It rates a home from an A1 Rating to a G rating. A G-rated home has virtually no insulation aside from its bare walls and roof. An A-rated home can be quite difficult to achieve through a renovation as you are working with a pre-existing structure. It’s much easier to achieve an A rating with a house built from scratch using all the modern technologies and materials. However, anything above a B2 rating is excellent and will feel extremely comfortable even in the worst of our Irish weather. Despite the challenge, we have achieved an A-rating on many renovations. 

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