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25 Beautiful Homes Magazine
April 2004

Space Oddity

Donal Gillespie took a small Victorian house and transformed it into a sleek and spacious contemporary home.

Words and photos: Barbara Egan

After five months of searching for the ideal combination of affordability and potential in a property, Donal Gillespie found the red-brick terrace he now lives in. ‘My first impression was that it was very run down,’ he explains, ‘but I wanted something that needed some work, so I could restore it myself.’

Luckily, the house retained many of its original features. ‘I wanted neutral finishes, such as stone and wood,’ explains Donal, ‘and I knew it wouldn’t take a huge amount of work to restore the old timber floors.’ Donal called in a group of architects, Box Architecture, who had interesting ideas involving the use of wood, glass and natural daylight.

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