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Involving the professionals to create a more comfortable lounge

September 8, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

The lounge is the room that most people spend most of their time at home in. this is obviously because the lounge is quite versatile in the sense that it can be used to entertain guests and it can be used simply for sitting and relaxing. This is often what people think of most when they think of spending time at home.

Comfort and relaxation is what the lounge is all about, so if you don’t feel that your luxury interior design is conducive to sitting down and taking it easy something needs to be done. You can change things a great deal if you renovate your lounge with some professional help.

Sometimes you need to get the designers and builders in to make your lounge the room you feel it has the potential to be. Some select changes could see your lounge become the ideal place to find comfort with your friends and family and the perfect place to kick back in your spare time.

You can involve the professionals right the way through if you wish, even getting them to give you advice and instruction on how to decorate the room so it is as inviting as possible when it has been revamped.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Renovation Tagged With: creating space, design, extension, Home, Home Renovation, house renovation, Interior Design, Interior Designer

Create a beautiful social hub for your home

August 17, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

Your living room is arguably the most important part of your West London property. You spend a great deal of time in your living room as along side your kitchen, they are the social hub for the entire household, your family and guests. The living room is most used when people are watching television, as well as for entertaining family and friends. Generally, your living room creates the back drop for the most sociable and visible part of your home in London so it’s sensible to make the best use of the interior space you have available.

Most property owners want to make their living room stylish, spacious and as sociable and comfortable as possible. To achieve your desired look, using an interior designer could make a lot of sense. Family members can find privacy in other parts of the house, like the bedroom and home offices or snug, so it is sensible to keep the living room as open and warm as possible.

Creating a more sociable and spacious living room can sometimes prompt a complete house renovation. Most home improvements go some way to making your living room feel a bit more welcoming. However, when you need more space or a different layout for your home to work and flow naturally from one zone to another, it is sometimes necessary to address the layout and structure of your living room. If you don’t do something about it, you may sit watching design programmes on television thinking how nice other homes are whilst not realising the opportunity to create a beautiful home for entertaining and enjoy living in your property a lot more.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Renovation Tagged With: Home, Home Renovation, house, Interior Design, Interior Designer, Professional Design, property renovation, refurbishment, Renovate, west london

Team ethic of inclusive design and build companies benefit projects

August 7, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

If you have ever conducted a fairly large project in order to have your house renovated in the past then you will know how important it is to have a really good project manager to keep everything together. When you have a reliable and informed project manager calling the shots, you feel much more confident about the entire job.

A project manager’s life is made significantly easier when all the different workers he is dealing with are part of the same group. Organising tradesmen specialising in different disciplines working for a range of different companies can be a very difficult task and communication breakdowns are common in this situation.

However, if all the tradesmen are part of the same company, then communication is likely to be much more efficient. Everyone reports to the same project manager and everyone has ready access to the same brief. The project manager only needs to make sure that the chain of communication is complete by bringing you up to date on everything and passing your messages on effectively.

If you have struggled in the past because of fractured project management, choose a design and build company in London that brings it all under one roof for your next big job.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Renovation Tagged With: architect, design, financial benefits, Home, listed buildings, Professional Design, property renovation

Enjoy the creativity of modernisation experts in London

August 5, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

When you have redecorated your front room time and time again in a bid to keep it fresh and attractive, there comes a time when you realise that a few surface changes just won’t cut the mustard anymore. Period properties in London require a lot of maintenance unless they are modernised to a significant degree.

After several attempts at superficial modernisation, it may be time to delve a little deeper and set the ball rolling on a much more comprehensive renovation project. This is certainly advisable if you think that your interiors are showing their age and the redecoration projects you embark upon periodically only have a short-lived impact.

For house renovation London homemakers have access to a very creative pool of talent. Design and build companies specialising in the modernisation of period properties relish the opportunity to get creative on each project and London is a great place for them to exercise their skills.

If you are interesting in obtaining the services of professionals in house renovation, seek out a trustworthy firm in your area that has an excellent reputation for delivering high standards right from the design stage through to completion.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Renovation Tagged With: Home Renovation, house renovation, Interior Design, London, modern interior, period property

Reduce complications with a design and build company

July 21, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

For a renovation project to work you need a really good project manager in charge. This is because you need to have all of your scheduling perfectly in order so that everything runs to the right timescale. You always want the project to remain on budget and you want everyone to be aware of one another’s work.

It is the project manager’s job to make sure there are no breakdowns in communication. However, this is really difficult if you are using tradesmen, architects, designers and builders from a range of different sources. This sort of arrangement is incredibly tricky because there’s so much to keep on top of.

Instead, you can take advantage of the service that some reputable design and build firms in London offer. They have architects, designers, builders and project managers all working for them so that communication is very simple and everyone is fully informed on where each project is up to and where it is going.

This is really advantageous and it helps to take a huge amount of stress out of the whole process of getting your luxury house into the right sort of shape.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Period Property, Renovation Tagged With: architect, Home Renovation, Interior Design, listed buildings, local builder, project managing, Renovations Company

Juxtaposing old and modern the new architectural trend

July 20, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

There’s a really significant trend at the moment in the world of architecture. It is evident in a lot of public buildings that have been renovated or refurbished, such as you find in a lot of capital cities around the world, including London. The key trend is to have a juxtaposition of the old with the new – older buildings kit out with really impressive modern interiors.

This trend works in an aesthetic sense, but it also works because it means older buildings are still capable of delivering what modern people expect from a convenient and attractive structure. What’s more, you can actually get involved in this sort of trend in your own home.

If you own one of the London’s stunning older properties, but you feel like opening up the interiors to put a more contemporary spin on your living space, then you can contact a building company in order to carry out a truly stunning transformation.

For house renovation, West London is a great place to be because architects and designers are used to working with older properties and effecting changes in keeping with really discerning luxury modern aesthetics.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Period Property, Renovation Tagged With: design, Home Renovation, house renovation, London, modern interior, property renovation, refurbishment, Renovate, west london

The sense of achievement associated with home renovations

July 15, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

There is a real sense of achievement that comes with having a thorough renovation of your house. This is because renovating your home often helps you to get the best out of it. It demonstrates that you have done all in your power to make your home the very best home for your family, not to mention the difference it makes in a superficial sense.

If you fancy feeling some of that sense of achievement for yourself, then starting indulging those ideas you keep getting about how much better your home would look if you did this or that to it, and how much more convenient it would be if you made a few changes here and a few changes there.

Once your ideas have gathered pace and you have set them down into a kind of brief for a renovation job, you can get the professionals in to refine your plans. Professional designers and builders know how to get the best out of a set of plans and they focus on putting the work in to turn those initial ideas into real luxury changes.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Renovation Tagged With: Home Renovation, house renovation, Interior Design, London, modern interior

Investing in more extensive renovations often yields greater satisfaction

July 3, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

Organising the layout of your home often throws up some very serious considerations. When you are redecorating or thinking about ways to make your home a bit more attractive in terms of its interiors, you often come across techniques that involve a lot of work, often dealing with the very structure of the house itself.

For instance, a lot of redecorating leads you down the path of moving walls, modifying them or removing them completely. This is a lot of work, but once you have noticed how positive a transformation such modifications would lead to, it is hard to convince yourself otherwise.

These modifications are well within the realms of possibility. Once you have squared the idea of a bigger project with yourself and your family, you can speak to designers and builders about effecting the changes you have decided to put into action.

In order to get the best results, you often have to commit to bigger plans and more extensive renovation work, but it is definitely worth it in the end. Your house will look and feel exactly as you want it to and you’ll be glad you invested in the changes.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Interior Design Tagged With: architect, creating space, design, Home Renovation, house renovation, Interior Design, London, refurbishment, residential architects, west london

The relationship between concept and craft in renovation work

July 2, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

It is interesting to look at the relationship between conceptual creativity and core skills when it comes to design and build projects. These two very different attitudes exist in perfect harmony in the world of construction and house renovation and they make for an interesting pairing.

Designers have to be creative. They must have vision in order for them to look at projects and see a host of changes that would improve them. They need to be able to listen to the ideas of their clients and work out ways of delivering in terms of the design for a renovated house or apartment.

Builders have to be very skilled in a more real-world sense. They put their skills to use in order to bring about the alterations and designs wrought by the creative team. It is wonderful how they are able to take these plans and turn them into something you can see and touch.

What is even better about some renovation companies is that they bring the creative designers and the skilled builders under the same organisation. This means they can deliver a really impressive service and this approach is used by some design and build companies in London.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Renovation

Treating a new house as a blank slate for improvements

July 2, 2015 By Buro Architects Leave a Comment

A new house can be something of a tableau rasa that allows you to exercise your own very personal preferences in terms of design. It is often a very sensible approach, especially when buying property in the capital, to reserve a certain amount of your budget to put towards hoe improvements that can take place before you actually move in.

Doing this obviously puts you in a better position to afresh because you can make the house you have invested in perfectly suitable to your own requirements. This attitude satisfies practical considerations and aesthetic considerations in equal part.

You can carry out home improvements to make the house energy-efficient and structurally sound for the future at the same time as addressing the interior design to make the place attractive to you.

If you are on the ball then you will be able to treat this blank slate in the ideal manner before you even move in and this will obviously reduce the disruption you experience related to the work that’s being done. Then you will move into your London home in the full knowledge that everything is just right.

Filed Under: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Renovation

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