Le Borgne Rizk Architecture: Built in 1911, this beautiful red brick house with its delicate wood cornice looked as if its interior was frozen in the 80s. Non-functional renovations completely cut off the dialogue between the house and the garden.
For the young family that bought the house, the interior-exterior reconciliation was a major factor as well as opening the ground floor space to initiate another important dialogue axis between the kitchen and the dining room.
The floor plan, with its rather spacious 1300sqf per floor, allowed for the living room and entrance to be kept in their original location and unaltered architectural style, while creating a passageway towards the back of the house, more open and modern. On this passageway, mouldings were created facing the older part of the house and huge doors were installed to help mark, in a more theatrical way, the passage from one era to another.
As this passageway was treated as a volume, it allowed for a new bathroom to the installed, much needed feature on the ground floor, as well as storage for the kitchen. The kitchen becomes a hub, central and vast while being soothing, inviting and perfectly suited for a pastry chef.
