Property Renovation

Although I have been renovating old buildings more or less continuously for the last four years, and have created this website about the best ways to renovate old buildings, I am also a modern architecture enthusiast.

In magazines and brochures you will have seen buildings that are old and traditional on the outside, yet have soaring spaces, steel staircases and halogen lighting on the inside. It is the contrast with the outside that sets your expectations and adds to the surprise when you enter such a property.

Yet the biggest challenge is how to incorporate the two. We have not gone resolutely modern in our barn conversion, but we have incorporated some modern touches.

For example:

- a wood and steel balcony mimics the ‘parallel lines’ theme of the ancient roof beams, while being very modern in appearance. You could do the same thing in stainless steel, which would look even better
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