Elsfield Place by The Designfire

Elsfield Place

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Year Completed: 2016 Location: 2 Elsfield Place, Torbay Professional Service/s: Building Consent Overview Our client has owned a home for many years. The home was built in the 90s with direct fix plaster cladding with a rounded parapet. Such a feature was once a design statement back at the time. However, after more than 20 years of standing, the house was leaking badly. While the house condition necessitated the re-cladding works, The client approached us also to consider the modernising of the frontage of the house as well as to achieve a better view for the top floor master bedroom. To achieve the design briefing requirement, we have carefully set the height of the design of the roof to ensure that the house achieves a high-quality modern look as well as being functional. By our careful and innovative design, the ceiling of the living has been optimised to create an open and loft feeling but also provided lower sill windows for the master bedroom so the client can enjoy the view from his master bedroom as well. One of the main design features is the mono-pitched frame look of the house which also incorporated a glass balustrade set right in front of the newly designed sliding door. As well as being looking highly modern, this also allowed a full and wide opening of the front large sliding door, effectively bringing in the outdoor freshness into the internal living room.

Year Completed: 2016 Location: 2 Elsfield Place, Torbay Professional Service/s: Building Consent Overview Our client has owned a home for many years. Read more

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Comprehensive re-cladding and modernization of a 1990s home in Torbay, enhancing aesthetics and functionality while optimizing views and natural light.

Year Completed: 2016
Location: 2 Elsfield Place, Torbay
Professional Service/s: Building Consent Overview

Our client has owned a home for many years. The home was built in the 90s with direct fix plaster cladding with a rounded parapet. Such a feature was once a design statement back at the time. However, after more than 20 years of standing, the house was leaking badly. While the house condition necessitated the re-cladding works, The client approached us also to consider the modernising of the frontage of the house as well as to achieve a better view for the top floor master bedroom.

To achieve the design briefing requirement, we have carefully set the height of the design of the roof to ensure that the house achieves a high-quality modern look as well as being functional. By our careful and innovative design, the ceiling of the living has been optimised to create an open and loft feeling but also provided lower sill windows for the master bedroom so the client can enjoy the view from his master bedroom as well.

One of the main design features is the mono-pitched frame look of the house which also incorporated a glass balustrade set right in front of the newly designed sliding door. As well as being looking highly modern, this also allowed a full and wide opening of the front large sliding door, effectively bringing in the outdoor freshness into the internal living room.

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“I have worked with THE DESIGNFIRE since 2014 with projects ranging from residential developments and high-end holiday homes. THE DESIGNFIRE has indeed become not only my company’s “Chief Designer” but also my “Personal Design Adviser”. THE DESIGNFIRE was engaged for all of our high-end residential developments and all of my holiday homes in Auckland. They were able to help me as a single point of responsibility with initial concept designs, material and colour selections right through to implementation and build, all within a set budget and timescale. I gained two fundamental benefits from employing THE DESIGNFIRE. One is the design itself. They were able to take a few basic and rather uncertain ideas of mine and show how they could be realised to best effect. They put forward the most incredible ideas for floor plans, spatial quality, interior design, and special architectural features. They were particularly amazing at coming up with solutions, and improvising, for the areas I hadn’t considered. Sourcing everything would have taken me weeks, or never at all. I have to say that they have a wonderful & trendy taste of design ideas. They always give you choices and add some interesting things in that you just wouldn’t have thought of, but that works beautifully. Another one is commercial benefits, our clients were all extremely happy with the design solution in our development, and they believe our product is different from those by other developers. I believe THE DESIGNFIRE’s design had some good influence here. Speaking of my own holiday houses, while I’ve only got to enjoy a few days in a year, most of the other times were rented out short term, and the return has been amazing, the stylish houses that THE DESIGNFIRE created generated huge interest and made my houses really popular in the area.”

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