This bathroom didn’t exist! This beautiful turn of the century town house only had a tiny and unpractical bathroom reachable from a landing. As the house was bought by a family with three young children, we decided to add one bathroom per floor and transform the original tiny one into a laundry room. This is [...]

One of my lovely clients was so kind as to describe in words her renovation experience. Here is her story: “In 2006 when we bought our house (a nice maison de maitre from 1915) we decided to have all the essential renovations done that were necessary for us to be able to live safely and [...]

If you have renovated your wooden floor you want it to look great for years to come. To do so it’s important to know how to treat and clean them to preserve their newly found beauty. That is why at the end of renovations where wooden floor have been sanded and treated I explain my [...]

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 [...]

In Brussels you can still find typical 1900s houses (the so called maisons bruxelloises) that have the luck of having been untouched for the previous six or seven decades. I love the charm of old houses so I consider this to be a lucky situation because although it implies doing a lot of work, all [...]

A lot of houses that were built around 1900 have wooden boards floors. These are usually 10-12 cm wide pinewood boards that were originally painted with a darker brown (lead based!) paint. Here it’s how they usually look before being sanded and after being freed of the carpet/lino/etc that often covers them. Although they are [...]

A waterborne finish covers the wood with a layer of protective varnish. The product is usually a two-component, waterborne, 100% polyurethane varnish that can have a matt or silky-matt finish. It is applied in several layers and dries quite quickly. Once treated, wood becomes slightly darker but keeps a very natural look. I chose a [...]