Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon renovate their Montreal design studio and residential

Designers Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon’s house in Montreal options modern Danish items alongside oak, terracotta and marble.

Situated within the metropolis’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, the Victorian-era brick house was renovated by the couple to accommodate a design studio and residence for them and their two poodles.

Accomplished in 1885, the residence has a slender width of three.1 meters and three storeys. It has an entry virtually on the basement stage that features the duo’s places of work and workshop. Above is a kitchen and front room, whereas bedrooms are on the following stage.

Referred to as Maison-Boutique Coloniale, the venture has pared-down interiors chosen by Godmer and Turgeon, with white partitions and pure and tactile surfaces which might be offset by modern designs.

An present staircase, which the duo sought to maintain intact, is painted white with new brown Trettford carpet in lambswool.

In 1980, the house was renovated and plenty of authentic architectural components had been modified, so the designers sought to retain as a lot as remaining particulars as attainable throughout their intervention, notably the moulding and flooring.

On the workplace stage is a gathering room designed as a dimly lit nook with a black desk association by Muuto and &custom. Plush orange curtains soften and add heat to present stone and brick partitions left uncovered.

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The extent above options the kitchen with oak cabinetry by Éco-Ébénisterie Saint-Dominique, which additionally assisted within the development, and white marble counter tops with rounded corners and brass fixtures.

New sliding glass doorways entry a patio. Terracotta tile flooring are additionally new however had been chosen to resemble what was initially there.

Rounding out this center storey is an consuming nook and a front room situated on the entrance of the house.

A mixture of household heritage antiques and the couple’s favorite items function at Maison-Boutique Coloniale. Above a weathered wooden eating desk hangs an aged-brass chandelier and the workplace flooring under has a lamp in polished brass – each by native studio Lambert & Fils.

Different lights additionally embrace a white Artemide pendant lamp, a conveyable Carrie lamp by Menu and a Bubble lamp by George Nelson.

There are additionally Skagerak eating chairs, a white Samsung tv by the Bouroullec brothers, a pair of Wassily chairs by Marcel Breuer, a Flloyd mattress and a metallic facet desk, gray barstools and a pink pillow by Danish model Hay.

Maison-Boutique Coloniale measures 1,800 sq. toes (167 sq. metres). On the highest flooring, it comprises two bedrooms and a rest room that will probably be renovated in an upcoming venture.

Godmer has additionally renovated a two-storey Victorian townhouse in Montreal’s Outremont neighbourhood for a consumer, after beforehand redesigning the proprietor’s chalet about an hour drive exterior of town.

Images is by Maxime Brouillett.