Extreme Makeover: a dated beauty salon gets a second life as a yoga studio
Extreme Makeover: a dated beauty salon gets a second life as a yoga studio
BEFORE: From the 1960s until the property was sold, the building had a hair salon on the main floor. AFTER: The sleek new yoga studio has Douglas fir floorboards
For years, Antje Bulthaup, an architectural designer, had her eye on a house with a fusty beauty salon on the ground floor and a two-storey residence on top. When the owner decided to sell, she pounced. “Since I’d dreamed about this building for so long, I was full of visions for it,” she says. During a 14-month reno, her crew ripped the main floor down to the studs. Bulthaup brought in Douglas fir planks from Denmark for flooring and designed oak-framed windows to swallow up the sun—perfect for the space’s reincarnation as a yoga studio.
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[caption id="attachment_201686" align="aligncenter" width="656"] BEFORE: From the 1960s until the property was sold, the building had a hair salon on the main floor. AFTER: The sleek new yoga studio has Douglas fir floorboards[/caption]
For years, Antje Bulthaup, an architectural designer, had her eye on a house with a fusty beauty salon on the ground floor and a two-storey residence on top. When the owner decided to sell, she pounced. “Since I’d dreamed about this building for so long, I was full of visions for it,” she says. During a 14-month reno, her crew ripped the main floor down to the studs. Bulthaup brought in Douglas fir planks from Denmark for flooring and designed oak-framed windows to swallow up the sun—perfect for the space’s reincarnation as a yoga studio.){kind=link}