RA dilapidated building from the 18th century in a lively village in South Dublin brought with him a “great responsibility”, says his owner Grainne Flynn, who with her husband, respectfully and carefully, brought a 173 square meter terrace house back for the couple, to her, her 11-year-old son and Golden Doodle Nell. In a stone's throw from her son's school and with a 35 m back garden to the south, an idyllic family home, if they were ready to face the enormous challenge, was renovated a protected structure, some of which was demolished.
Flynn, a graphic designer and photographer of a profession, had previously renovated properties, but not on this size. “The house comes from 1782 and was so broken, more than I realized when we bought it, ”she says. “It was structurally inappropriate and needed an enormous amount of work.”
Flynn had a fixed vision for the property, which was about keeping as much of the original building as possible. It was therefore important to her that she worked with experts who supported them. She chose the Dublin Practice Architects, which, as she says, did an excellent job to bring the bones of the house together again.
New windows have been expanded
The first step was to clean and reuse the original bricks. “An architect from Dublin Civic Trust told me that they had been handmade in the gardens from locally imported sound.” She was also interested in doing the existing footprint of housework instead of extending itself, and creating a bright and warm home in it that worked for the way her family lived. From there, natural materials, free -standing furniture and a rounded color palette would help create an interior that was loyal to the origins of the house, but was suitable for contemporary life.
The restoration, reuse and restoration was an integral part of every aspect of the design strategy, partly to avoid waste, and partly because it would provide the authentic, lived look that Flynn was afterwards. All original Kilkenny marble fireplaces have been freed and restored years. Old school house coolers were reclaimed from Wilson's Yard in Dromore in Northern Ireland, while the original Banister slowly became “and even more beautiful” by Flynn's husband, she says.
The original lime plastering walls throughout the house were painted in Farrow & Balls Skimmingstein for a structured, earthy backdrop, and the original wooden floors were saved if possible. “We coordinated the rest of Wilson's Yard with recessed boards,” says Flynn. All windows had to be replaced-there was no possibility to restore, since the original 6-over 6-tired windows were removed by the previous owner-and because the building was listed, Flynn worked with Mavlyn Conservation Joinery in Dublin. Whoever says it was wonderful and respected and translated their vision again. “The list of the house listed never frightened me. I liked the fact that this beautiful building was protected. However, there is the restriction of larger costs. “
Flynns Goldendoodle, Nell
With the basics of the house, Flynn focused on fittings and equipment. The kitchen comes from the Devol company based in Great Britain. “I always had an idea that I would like to work with them,” she says. “I visited the exhibition space and then everything was done after it was made from a distance because Covid met in the middle of the project. The kitchen was delivered and our architects arranged helpful so that a Galway company fits. “All cupboards from Devol are made to a traditional Georgian specification, says Flynn, and she decided for Marmor worktops from the Stone Gallery in Dublin to end the look. The island is a French antique manager, which it moved into from Andy Thornton, a British antique dealer, and the old “coin drawer” has proven to be a comfortable place to keep her house key.
Although the couple likes to cook, Flynn admits that they primarily look a French Lacanche cooker because they look beautiful. The black color supply reflects the weathered black wood of the kitchen island and brings a punctuation into the otherwise subdued palette. Taps and other hardware were selected in non -lalized brass because it burns beautifully over time. Flynn wanted the same, naturally weathered appearance in both surfaces and furniture. The black wall lights on both sides of the kocher come from Rose Unacke in London and offer useful task lighting, while the trailer lights of the reproduction antique Lighting Company Jamb London make the best of the spacious Georgian proportions of the room.
A collection of stoneware offers a reserved display in the kitchen and includes a small urn Flynn, which can be found in the garden when buying the house. Like many of the decorative pieces in the whole house, the bulbous vase was found on the side table on their travels in India. The table was obtained from considered things, a pop-up shop in East London.
Lime plaster walls throughout the house were painted in Farrow & Ball's Skimming Stone, a warm light gray
Morocco is another popular destination of the couple and the living room carpet was brought home by a vacation. Flynn did not want to match the walls to maintain a calm and calm atmosphere, so that an oversized wreath from the Dublin Design Studio Elements of Action from the garden, a creative flower design studio, was wrapped in this room. A luxurious vintage leather -Danic sofa from the Kilkenny Antiques Store Joy Thorpe has a tactility that brings warmth and intimacy into the room, while a brass lamp in India is reinvented with a shadow from the London Interiors Store Matilda Good. Window to catch the sunlight.
Flynn's homage to the original building continues in the main bedroom further up, where the restored fireplace frames the original exposed brick cream. There is an old milk maps from Flynn's family house in Donegal and two pictures from the now closed Printmakers gallery in the Drury Street in Dublin. Both old pine wardrobes were handled by advertising and only cost € 500, while the console was found in an antique shop in Drumsna in Co Sligo.
In the spacious en -Suite, the wall cabinet, which was once the upper half of an old Georgian dresser, offers storage space and acts as a decoration, while the café curtains from Irish linen from the fabric shop in London enable privacy without hiding. Flynn found the slipper-back chair in a market outside of London and had the back of Mia's upholstery newly padded in the dolphins barn, and, as it was, had the torstered lower half, completely with exposed resort. Flynn's love at the time of the period enables her to see the beauty even in the most beaten objects.
Devol's kitchen cabinets are made to a traditional Georgian specification and the marble slabs come from the Stone Gallery in Dublin
In the room of her son, an old railway clock, an economical milking stool and a wooden school chair character and a nostalgic charm bring into the room, which is equipped with a kudders from the Finnish design business. Flynn also put one in the guest room. “It extends into a super -cingy bed when we need additional accommodations, but otherwise the room is not flooded by furniture,” she says. Everyday life can act as an office or play room or any number of useful rooms. An old farm house chair made of an exempted shop in Sligo and Vintage picture of the Madonna and the child are the only other elements in the room.
Although Flynn researched online for two full years and visited the second -hand shops, antiques fairs and boutique interiors to curate this exquisite family home, she reveals that the house developed its own voice when it came to itself. “This house knows what it is. If I go in something now and it is wrong, the house will reject it. ”