Total renovation of a mid 50's ground floor apartment in Alimos , Athens, Greece.

The residence is two bedroom apartment of a total area of 90sqm.

The bearing structure is consisted of reinforced concrete and bearing walls as well. There is full access to the garden of the ground floor, in front and in the rear of the property.

The apartment was inhabited for the past 10 years, that lead to a serious deterioration of the surface of the external and internal walls, as well as the floor and the plumbing system.

Moreover, the techniques and methods used those days, along with the obsolete technology of the materials used, considering nowadays, lead to the need of a total make over so as to be able to accommodate the current needs of the, foreign based owners, as a visiting house in Athens. 

However, the apartment has been fully equipped with all the necessary facilities, that would make it a permanent, rather than a temporary, residence in Athens.

Some of the key points of the renovation:

• internal space rearrangement.
• construction of new plaster where the existing one was unsound
• construction of new piping for the heating of the apartment making use of natural gas.
• total renovation of the plumbing system.
• replacement of the wiring system.
• new tiling.
• new laminate flooring.
• new sanitary articles
• new kitchen cupboards and bedroom closets.
• new internal wooden doors and external made from aluminium.
• new furnitures.