client private
engineers CRA Ltd.
contract value £70,000
total remodelled area 56 sq. m.
Halvorsen Architects extended and remodelled a 1970s house in Dunbar, East Lothian. A sun room was created at the heart of the house, linking all the principal rooms and, with the removal of a wall, created a large open plan kitchen-dining room. Light floods in through the wall-to-wall South-facing glazing, high-level East-facing clerestory windows and a large roof light. The clients call it their “Lovely Room” and in the depths of winter said this:
“We love the Lovely Room! Despite the freezing weather outside the room is flooded with light and heat (currently 22 degrees from sunlight only). We’d feared the kitchen would feel like a dark cave but it has plenty of light too. We’re always delighted to come home to it – and want to thank Halvorsen Architects for a design that works so well”.
