Home renovation · Gauteng

Full house renovation

A tired family home taken back to brick and roof timbers, then rebuilt with wide glass, a new patio and three new bathrooms.

Location
Gauteng
Type
Home renovation

What we did

  • Walls opened up for bigger windows and doors
  • Old steel windows replaced with black-framed glass
  • New gable, patio slab and steps
  • Ceilings, plastering and paint
  • Three bathrooms tiled and fitted
Renovated gable end with tall black-framed folding glass doors opening onto a new patio
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Before

  • The old covered porch with white steel doors and broken paving, before the work started
  • The original gable end of the house with a timber-clad roof and small windows
  • Bedroom with the old ceiling pulled down to the roof timbers and a steel window onto the pool
  • Old bathroom stripped back to bare brick, with the ceiling open
  • An old steel-framed window in a cracked plaster wall
  • Outside wall with the old window openings sealed in plastic during the strip-out
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Construction

  • Builders fitting a new concrete lintel over a widened opening in an outside wall
  • A builder breaking out brickwork to make a new window opening
  • An old window opening cut wider, with the brickwork below exposed
  • Looking up through the open roof timbers while a builder works above
  • Floor trenches cut for new plumbing in an open room
  • New face-brick work around a window opening
  • Builders on ladders bricking up the new gable above the patio
  • New brick steps being laid along the patio
  • The new concrete patio slab poured along the back of the house
  • New ceiling timbers fixed under the roof before the boards go up
  • Plasterers on a ladder working on a long open-plan room
  • The new open-plan living area with fresh ceiling boards and bare floor
  • A tiler setting black herringbone tiles on a feature wall
  • A walk-in shower floor screeded to fall towards a long drain
03

Completed

  • The finished gable with tall black-framed folding glass doors onto the patio
  • The finished house from the garden, painted dark blue with a long run of glass doors
  • The new patio and steps running the length of the house
  • A black steel-and-glass door set into the dark blue wall
  • The gable end with a full wall of glass catching the sky
  • The double garage with new roller doors and a timber-clad gable
  • A side patio with a dark planter against the new grey walls
  • Wide concrete steps down from the new patio
  • Finished bathroom with deep blue gloss wall tiles, a floating basin and a wall-hung toilet
  • Bathroom with a black herringbone feature wall and large pale floor tiles
  • Walk-in shower with a stone-look feature wall, a niche and a glass screen
  • Bathroom with a lit mirror and a floating vanity on pale grey walls
  • Close-up of a white basin and black tap against blue tiles
  • Black steel-framed window wall looking out onto the garden
  • Black steel-framed glass door from inside, with sunlight across the tiles

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