Refurbishment
Breathing new life into old bricks
Couple Kiki and Andrew Norman have relocated to Edinburgh to transform and expand a ı00-year-old practice into a modern facility, decking it out with carefully chosen equipment, writes Bruce Oxley
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n a little over three years, Kiki and Andrew Norman have managed to breathe new life into a ı00-year-old dental prac-
tice in the heart of Edinburgh. The two Newcastle Dental
School graduates, who met in the first year of their under- graduate studies, took over the two-surgery Haymarket Family Dental Practice in 2009 renaming it Haymarket Dental. They have recently under-
taken a significant programme of refurbishment that has seen the addition of a third surgery, and the complete overhaul of the existing facilities. Kiki, originally from Giffnock
in the south side of Glasgow, and her husband Andrew decided to move back up to Scotland after working in the north east of England since graduation. After a year of searching Glasgow and Edin- burgh for their ideal practice, it was actually Kiki’s mum who found the practice that was to become their own. Kiki said: “We were keeping
our eyes out for a new practice for the first six months and then the last six months we were really properly looking. After all that it was actually my mum who found it. She was on the internet one day and found it on the BDA website!” The practice ticked all their
boxes, including the potential to refurbish it to their own style and standard, and extend
to include another surgery. However, one of the first things Kiki and Andrew did when they took over was bring the practice into the 2ıst century and computerise their day-to- day workings. They then set about building
up the patient list while plan- ning how they were to renovate
and extend their new practice. One of the main selling points when they were looking at the building was the potential to create a third surgery from the existing waiting area. As it stood, the reception was on one side of the corridor, with a large waiting area on the other. Their plan was to turn the
The waiting room has been transformed
“We had a clear idea of what we wanted to achieve and we were quite heavily involved with the design”
larger room into a combined reception and waiting room, and make the smaller reception area into a new surgery. In January last year, the plan-
ning was complete and work began to overhaul the practice. Despite bringing in a project manager to oversee the work and give them assistance with the planning and the paper- work, both Kiki and Andrew were actively involved with the design and planning of the refurbishment. Kiki explained: “We had a clear idea of what we wanted to achieve and we were quite heavily involved with the design and how we wanted the surgeries set up. We chose all the floor coverings, the corian worktops as well as all the fixtures and fittings.”
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