This was a renovation and extension to a brick house in an estate in passage west in cork. The lower level where the bedrooms where was extremely dark, uninviting and had no connection with the upper living areas. The design solution sought to make a connection both physically and visually between the two levels by scooping out an entire room to allow light to flood the whole lower level. A double height window was installed which now allows views to the sea that my client never enjoyed before. The rooms are now reorganized upstairs and downstairs, and a new double height den now replaces an underutilized bedroom.