Jake Moulson creates eclectic interiors in D2 Townhouse revamp

Architect Jake Moulson has renovated a dilapidated Dublin townhouse, making a dramatic set of interiors crammed with bespoke furnishings.

The undertaking, known as D2 Townhouse, concerned renovating a five-storey listed Georgian home that had fallen into disrepair, in addition to a coach home within the backyard that has change into overgrown.

Jake Moulson restored and prolonged the home, then redecorated it with new cladding, flooring, fixtures and furnishings customized by his studio.

An exterior cladding system of cast-iron panels was prototyped digitally and contains a repeating sample that has additionally been used for the railings within the backyard and doorways by the home.

Gleaming brass furnishings curves across the exterior of the parlour, which is painted a deep blue to distinction with the metallic. Leather-based seating niches are set into a number of the brass items, and cabinets are hidden within the others.

The kitchen has a sci-fi model row of surfaces made out of thermoformed Corian that has been pressed into an undulating form. A white-painted cabinet made in a neo-Georgian model hides the fridge and different home equipment behind a patterned panel.

The household’s artwork assortment is displayed in a room the architects known as a “godless chapel” behind the home, which has been opened up with a double-height window and a glazed curved bay.

Its flooring is fabricated from metal adorned with laser-etched designs within the Adamesque model, an 18th-century neoclassical college of structure and design.

A vibrant patterned ceiling within the library was painted by artist Morag Myerscough, and charred timber was used for the wainscotting of the corridors.

“Channelling D2 Townhouse’s Georgian inheritance, with its formality, flamboyance, pomp and procession, Jake Moulson needed to reinvigorate an imagined life, give the home again its physique, to re-dress it sharply in opposition to the aged grit and grain of its surfaces, and to adore it the place it had been uncared for,” stated the studio.

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“The result’s a disorientating and seductive compression-piece – of temporalities, palettes and aesthetics, mixing dialogues between artwork, structure, design, science and fictions, from the intimate to the flamboyant, and from the restrained to the spectacular.”

For a loo below the steps Jake Moulson added onyx panels which are uplit to disclose the bubble-effect of the mineral’s veining.

In one other rest room upstairs, a fluorescent pink reveal over the sink stands out in opposition to a white Corian floor with brass towel rails.

A crimson dressing room is dominated by a futuristic piece of furnishings that rises like a faceted column by the center of the room, with benches all the way in which round which have hidden drawers beneath them.

For the kids’s bedrooms, Moulson designed a customized mattress the place the semi-circular headboard lights up at evening to supply a comforting glow. The main bedroom’s mattress has a fold-up breakfast desk and a hid tv.

In the back of D2 Townhouse, an extension fabricated from structural glass varieties a part of the lavatory for the grasp on the second story, above the home’s authentic winter backyard.

Within the Coach Home, a glass bay window cantilevers from the facade, which might be sat in or have objects displayed in it. A bat belfry has been included into the coach home’s roof throughout its renovations, to supply a house for native wildlife.

With their grand proportions Georgian-era homes present architects with the canvas for renovations with a little bit of aptitude.

West Structure gutted a townhouse in London and stuffed it with industrial and interval particulars, and designer Ben Thompson turned a Georgian manor in Hampshire right into a resort.

Pictures is by Tim Croker.

Mission credit:

Lead guide and designer: Jake Moulson
Shoppers: O’Carroll Household
Lead roles in JM: Robert Berry and Stephanie Gallia
Full staff at JM and help: Alicia Borkowska, Aoife Donnelly, Adelina Fasan, David Hemingway, Bradley Roast, Kristin Trommler
Structural engineers: Barrett Mahoney
Horticulturalist: Oliver and Liat Schurmann, Mount Venus Nurseries
Furnishings design: Jake Moulson
Inside design: Jake Moulson
Cladding design: Jake Moulson
Ceiling paintings: Morag Myerscough
Most important contractor: Tomsollagh Growth
Specialist glazing: Trombe
Specialist joinery: Aldworth, James & Bond
Specialist iron casting: FSE foundry
Specialist iron work: Bushyparks Ironwork