Luxurious Penthouse with Roof Terrace, Manchester
We have started a very prestigious design project in Manchester of a luxurious duplex penthouse, the sort of project we are more accustomed to doing in London over the years and highlights how Manchester is changing by the day.
The project has been broken down into three sections:
1. The roof terrace
2. The open planning living floor
3. The sleeping floor (3 bed, 3 bath)
Firstly we have designed and are in the process of installing the roof terrace as phase 1. From our 3D designs below you can see what we are striving for and from the original/work in progress photos you can see what we started with and how things are progressing.
Both ourselves and the clients wanted to take advantage of the summer months to do the outside terrace work, in which we have stripped back and removed nearly all that existed and then started to install and create our vision. We are very adept at working in such logistically difficult spaces with previous work both in Manchester and London, priding ourselves on our efficiency, cleanliness, consideration that keeps good relationships with staff and residents, for such work is very specialist and as such requires a special touch and careful planning, as well as a lot of hard work. For there is no place for a skip and limited space and time to offload. Indeed to do these sort of jobs 7 stories up you really have to care!
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As you can imagine logistically as mentioned it is very hard work but we are now heading into the final phase of the roof terrace with the arrival of the glass pagoda, the ordering of the Astro turf, the outdoor planting, the commissioning of the outside bar etc. Which will see it start to come together quickly in keeping with our design. So look forward to more exciting pictures to follow!
In design terms, levelling out a bizarre step change in level that was killing space, dismantling and moving the bbq area to a better location has completely unlocked the space as per the design making it feel twice as big and way more useful space to entertain. Indeed there is such a joy in redistributing space to work better for you no matter where you are. For there are usually space killers and in this case there were two glaringly obvious ones. However one we couldn’t remove and had to design around was the light lantern for the hallway below, just in case anyone was wondering why had we plonked a big unsightly glass box in the middle of everything!
Finally the Jaccuzi, it was going on every count! It was old and knackered on every level and simply pointless to repair, the couple who bought the flat said they didn’t think they would use one, so it was cut up into 20 odd pieces and carried down as this was never installed up the narrow turning stairs it will have been craned in when they built the flats!