Apartments Rue de Rome

This project was to transform a whole series of traditional servants’ rooms and storage spaces on the top floor (7th) of a late 19th century ’Haussmann’ style building, whose only access from the floors below was via a steep and narrow staircase. They have been turned into modern apartments reached by a lift and a brand-new staircase to modern norms.

AIM Hanemian Architects has made the most of this top-floor site: the apartments enjoy exceptional views out over Paris via dormer windows fitted into the roof. Each apartment has a character of its own.

Exploiting all the possibilities of this roof-top site has been a design priority for AIM Hanemian Architects. The roofing timbers have been re-structured to make space for duplex apartments or else high-ceilinged rooms. The high quality finishing touch for this project has been sought by the use of planked flooring, kitchen units in grey-green lacquer with wooden work-tops, pearl grey painted walls and high quality bathroom facilities and fittings.

The entire range of these apartments aroused great appeal when they came on the market, and their new owners, the residents of the floors below, rented them out in record time.