Every artist is looking for a sanctuary – a place with surrounding beauty to recreate and to be inspired from. Danish design studio, Norm Architects, have designed the Humlebaek House. This old home was modernized to suit the needs of a working artist, incorporating a studio space and enhancing the amount of natural light. Placed in rural surroundings, near the water, this house was perfect! Brick walls, concrete floors and a huge steel beam supporting the first floor was actually part of the house when the project started. And these were the elements that we decided to make the identity of the house, together with the old wooden beams that were revealed when reconstructing the first floor. The original concrete floors were removed and floor heating was installed before the new concrete floor was laid out, sanded roughly and treated with a shiny epoxy. No paneling, just white walls. Since the outside of the house is protected by local architectural restrictions, the windows were kept in the original style. But this gave a good contrast to the strict square window openings. Beautifully
