An Old French Barn Becomes a Modern Home for Extended Family

Tasked with renovating an outdated barn in Igornay, France, the Faure & Miniau Company just lately accomplished the Les Greniers de Babel home after two years of labor. The purchasers had a need to rework the barn to accommodate their household once they come go to on trip. The venture consisted of restructuring and repairing the framework; eradicating flooring, floorboards, and inside partitions; and putting in home windows on the entrance wall. The renovation permits extra pure gentle to flood the inside whereas creating views of the close by park.

All through the inside, shades of greens and blues fill areas with a playful power. The kitchen is trendy total with gentle wooden cupboards and medium gray flooring setting the tone. Deep inexperienced mosaic tiles type the island countertop whereas geometric white and emerald inexperienced tiles fill the backsplash with a random sample. Teal and turquoise cowl the 2 primary partitions, with one other inexperienced shade enveloping the spiral staircase.

The principle residing house is open, connecting the kitchen, eating room, and lounge. A graphic wall mural in complementary tones lives on the wall that separates the lounge and adjoining studying room. The intense scene represents the household’s holidays by the ocean and their travels.

The ceiling was eliminated on this space to create a double-height house with a cathedral ceiling.

With the double-height house, the upstairs is open and stuffed with pure gentle. A walkway with a glass railing overlooks the lounge and eating room beneath.

A cabin-like bed room clad in wallpaper that appears like wooden is suspended over the kitchen. The room’s home windows give the occupant’s views of the downstairs.

A youngsters’s room with a inexperienced bunk mattress and built-in bookcase advantages from glass partitions that allow gentle in. Inexperienced curtains assist add privateness when wanted.

Images by Philippe Charlot.

Caroline Williamson is Editorial Director of Design Milk. She has a BFA in pictures from SCAD and might often be discovered looking for classic wares, doing New York Instances crossword puzzles in pen, or transforming playlists on Spotify.