Frederiksberg Apartment

The owners, a couple with two teenagers, had lived here for nine years before they called us. The rooms were generous but dark at the back, and the kitchen sat in a narrow corridor that nobody wanted to cook in.

What we changed

We moved the kitchen into the former dining room, took down one non-bearing wall and kept the original ceiling rosettes and door frames. A long oak bench now runs under the living room windows, with storage for records and board games below.

• Kitchen moved to the brightest room in the flat
• New oak floor in 18 cm planks, oiled rather than lacquered
• A lighting plan with three dimmable circuits per room

Living with it

The family asked for a home that would not need redecorating every few years. Everything we chose can be repaired, re-oiled or re-upholstered, and most of it was made within 300 km of Copenhagen.