Jamie Fobert Architects' overhaul of a Victorian house in north London, w/ a travertine-lined pool

[Celerity]

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/02/07/house-primrose-hill-jamie-fobert-travertine-pool/







Jamie Fobert Architects has overhauled a Victorian house in north London, creating new basement floors that provide a light-filled living room and a travertine-lined swimming pool. While the exterior of House in Primrose Hill looks much the same as it did before, the renovation has completely transformed the interior to create a spacious, five-bedroom family home.







Jamie Fobert's design makes careful use of glazed walls, lightwells and skylights, to ensure the new spaces feel as bright and comfortable as the rest of the house. "Like many Victorian houses, the building had been altered over time," Fobert told Dezeen.







"It had been turned from a single-family house into a number of flats, which meant that almost all of the original internal features of the house had been destroyed," said the architect. "Yet from the street it retained its handsome historic form." "Our ambition was to create contemporary living spaces within the original villa, bringing in light, air and volume, and gently extending the fabric of the building to create circulation and views to the garden," he added.







The owners were previously living next door but had outgrown the property. When this house went up for sale, they realised it would offer them more opportunities to extend. The project took a feat of engineering. The two original floors of the house were temporarily suspended, allowing a previous basement floor to be rebuilt and an extra floor to be slotted in underneath.

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[Ninga]

1. spectacular!

[bigtree]

2. nice victorian

...not a fan of modernism.

I look at modernism as a dearth of imagination. Simple lines, sleek furniture, monochromatic, exposed concrete walls. It looks incomplete and unfinished.

I'm bored looking at it in pictures, I can't imagine spending any time there (not your fault, of course).

Impressive garden, though.

[Celerity]

3. I am the exact opposite, I adore minimalism and modernism, so to each their own.

[bigtree]

4. definitely a matter of individual taste

...it is a bit disappointing to me that most home designs today are sparse and less detailed than, say, the era that house was built in.

A little more art on the walls would do wonders for that big home.

I actually love that you posted a home I could critique. I absolutely crave looking at houses and interior design.

The wooden stairs are inspiring.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I'm the same as you.

It's so sterile and "un-cozy' to me. It's not place i could see relaxing in. It feels cold and alienating to me.

[vanlassie]

5. Do you watch "Grand Designs?" Best reno show ever.

It’s been going for almost twenty years in the UK. I think it can be seen on Amazon Prime. The host, Keven, is just great. I have seen several London houses have their extension done below ground.

[Celerity]

6. yes and we have a Swedish version as well

https://www.tv4play.se/program/grand-designs-sverige