On a modest budget a former two-bedroom apartment in one of the first shoe box apartment complexes from early 1990's Dublin is remodelled, providing a studio loft apartment of a quality appropriate to its setting on the Liffey Quays. Substandard partitions, services and finishes are stripped out and the apartment is brought back to its bare shell.A grand room of dual aspect, overlooking the Ha'penny Bridge and river Liffey, is revealed. On light rubber flooring a new kitchen, shower-room, bed platform and storage/shelving units are added. A lacquered red ceiling reflects the southerly light of the Liffey River by day, while at night radiates a warm glow, both within the apartment and to passers-by outside allowing the space to regain a sense of Georgian proportions in the reflections of its height.