The interior was run-down but once Hilko had seen the house plans, he was convinced he could transform the space into something beautiful.
“It’s a typical Parkhurst house: more or less square with a tiled roof and a chimney. Apart from a small extension done in the sixties, the house has remained unchanged since it was built in 1952,” he says, adding with a chuckle: “When the transfer took place, I was given a demolition certificate instead of a certificate of compliance! Fortunately, it wasn’t necessary to flatten the house.”
Although it needed a lot of work, the home had solid ‘bones’ with no structural defects. A big plus was that the roof rested solely on the exterior walls, which meant Hilko was free to demolish interior walls.
Once most of the walls, including those in a passage and a separate sunroom, had been removed, the original three-bedroom house was converted into a one-bedroom home with open-plan living areas and a veranda – exactly what Hilko wanted. A garden flat at the back has been renovated to provide guest accommodation, while the patchwork roof from previous additions has been replaced with a concrete slab. To add shape and volume, all the horizontal steel windows were replaced with trendy school windows and the doorways were raised.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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