For a home to be tidy and comfortable, storage space is essential. So when planning a renovation it is important to think ahead about how to maximise storage. In the typical maison bruxelloise which I am confronted daily, finding storage is not always easy. I find it particularly challenging when it comes to decide where [...]

There is a rule for staircases that says that a value for the rise-to-tread ratio of 17/29 cm≈ 0.59 is considered optimal. This corresponds to a pitch angle of about 30°. However, it is not uncommon to see houses whose stairs have a much steeper pitch angle.  This typically happens for staircases leading to the [...]

When renovating a house, the electrical installation is one of the things that has to be redone 90% of the time. Now it is also a legal obligation in Belgium: once you buy a house you have eighteen months to request a certificate of conformity. This seems quite obvious and normal but what most people [...]

I am always amazed at how the same space can be totally transformed simply by changing the finishing. Even if a space is well proportioned, the feeling you get from it derives mostly by the materials, colours and textures that compose it. A recent project illustrates this perfectly. The house, a villa in a beautiful [...]

When you have little children you know that you spend a lot of time around the kitchen/dining table. That’s where a lot of the activity goes on, from preparing meals together to drawing and studying, from playing to readying and working. So I always wondered which table could resist to all these activities while still [...]