• Rene and Janet – bought a small top floor unit in a good position with Ocean Views .. but it needed a total renovation to make it more appealing and to get better use from the limited spaces .

• There was an old kitchen, well past its ‘use by date ’ with no Dishwasher and  limited storage.  The main bedroom had 1 large built in Wardrobe that ran the length of the room and left space only for a double bed against a wall in one corner . The 2^nd bedroom had no wardrobe .

• The bathroom was OK ‘ liveable’ but  the only laundry space for the unit was an old ‘ shared ‘ facility on the ground floor .

What did we do ?

Kitchen 

• We redesigned the kitchen to put the fridge and a large walk in pantry along one wall … which was previously a “dead end” of the room.  Made a small but efficient U shape in the other end . and incorporated a small seating bench for 2 stools along the remaining unused wall .. with a wine rack over that is visible through the Kitchen opening from the adjacent dining end of the lounge dining room.

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Wardrobes 

• We decided to salvage the large 3 sliding door wardrobe (which was of quite  good quality .. just too big for the space ..and in the wrong position for the room ) … by dismantling it,  cutting it down and moving it now as a 2 sliding door wardrobe it to the 2^nd bedroom .
  In the main bedroom we designed a new L Shaped wardrobe that better used the space in front of the entry door and didn’t protrude as far into the length of the room .. thus leaving room for a bed with side tables centered in the remainder of the room . (and with an ocean view out the adjacent window ) 

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Bathroom   

• Although the bathroom was useable (and not provided for in the original budget ), the NO LAUNDRY problem was important  ?

•  The bathroom appeared to be too small to include a washing machine …. but the alcove containing only an old pedestal basin was in fact underutilised . We designed a new vanity cabinet to fit the basin space with a washing machine under and just enough room to replace a new benchtop basin to one side over it  … and matched it with a new overhead mirrored shaving cabinet to entirely fill the space above .  (and Rene and Janet then decided to re do the whole bathroom while they were at it – It ‘blew the budget “ but in the end it was ‘done’ and saved having all that mess and interruption later .. when it would have had to be done anyway ! )