Currently on site, a deep retro-fit of a 3 storey, mid-terrace house in Vauxhall, London.
Included in our proposals is the renovation of 2 dilapidated extensions in timber reusing existing structural elements in both wood and steel in combination with acoustically glazed bespoke timber sliding doors and new vertical timber cladding.
As the house lies over an underground tunnel, a unique ‘floating’ acoustic concrete slab has been installed across all the ground floor rooms over which under floor heating and new timber flooring is being laid.
New bathrooms have also been designed as part of the design which will provide a calm and considered contemporary reinterpretation of the clients property.
Our additions to Prospect House in Ebchester are now complete. More soon.
Photography: Rory Gaylor
Our whole house renovation in Deal is now complete. More soon.
Photography: Rory Gaylor
Renovations to a 1970’s terrace house in Barnes, London.
A new garden room was designed to replace an uninsulated structure and adjustments to existing spaces were made to make the house more useable and enjoyable for our clients.
Bespoke structural timber windows, staffordshire quarry tiles and solid larch flooring refer to the original finishes and details of the house when built and replace unsympathetic treatments carried out by previous owners.
Photography: Sue Barr
Additions to a 1927 architect designed family home on the Surrey borders.
Our proposal included a new kitchen, a connected breakfast room and terrace to extend the useful life of the house for our clients and their extended family in 2 brickwork volumes with varying heights that respond to the geometry and scale of the existing house.
The additions have been built using a handmade Shropshire brick with a matching flush pointed lime mortar. Bespoke full height timber windows and doors provide daylight and views of the existing garden with a chimney placed at the junction of the upper and lower volumes to echo the existing tall chimneys on the main house.
Focussing on a large central island table a bespoke, hand painted in frame kitchen was built to our designs, combining a birch plywood construction with Carrara marble work surfaces and extensive, full height storage .
Photography: Katie Anderson
Our clients had lived in the property for some years but were keen to have the house refurbished and improved without removing its essential character.
An existing box stair was carefully renovated with a new roof lantern fitted to provide daylight. Existing timber floors were relaid and the original window patterns were recreated in timber.
New bespoke joinery using traditional cabinetry detailing and corian counters was installed over the original encaustic tiled floor to the kitchen; with shelving designed to display an extensive collection of classic Penguin paperbacks, together with a freestanding wardrobe installed in the master bedroom.
Though modest in scale the project demonstrates a strand of our practice which allows for a more curated approach to domestic interior space that responds and acknowledges the setting of the project rather than imposing unsympathetic additions and materials.
Photography: Sue Barr
The client asked us to modernise her kitchen and provide her with a better dining room and garden room from where she could work.
Given the modest scale of the commission attention was given to bespoke joinery and good quality components. A low wall designed to bookend the sink and drainer also provides a moment of sociability being at a height which allows a family member to stand and talk.
Since their completion the rooms have also been used as a private gallery.
Photography Sue Barr
Despite its apparent size the house needed a new room in which to entertain. Designed for a professional couple and their family a new kitchen, dining room and scullery have been added to a large semi-detached stone built villa. Larch cladding panels were painted to compliment the soot stained grit stone elevations against which the new dining room sits.
Photography: Sue Barr
A house with two courtyards.
In Bethnal Green in East London we created a new terrace and private walled garden to provide a creative couple with the sorely needed external space in which to relax as a family.
In an adjacent private courtyard bounded on all 4 sides by high brickwork walls, we added an additional top-lit child’s bedroom with a small external space.
The materials of the project make explicit reference to the sites urban setting and industrial history; painted aluminium cladding panels echo the solid metal access doors of the nearby warehouses and the raw timber floors further enhance the original industrial use of the building in which the apartment is situated.
The project’s interior was deliberately left unfinished.
Photography: Sue Barr
Renovation of a mid-19th century locally listed workers cottage near Richmond Park in London. The house had been the family home of our client and her family for many years but its condition had deteriorated due in part to its age and also a number of awkward and unsympathetic alterations which had created problems with damp and thermal comfort.
An existing first floor internal corridor has been removed and replaced with a daylit ‘enfilade’ extending through the house which exaggerates the scale of the property without the need for extensive structural alterations. A bespoke box stair in Larch plywood was designed and built on-site; with a new top-lit shower/bathroom being accessed from the new circulation.
Throughout the project a conscious decision was made to avoid using expensive, high maintenance finishes and fittings with the emphasis being placed on making good practical rooms which will prolong the useful life of the house for our client and her family.
Additions to a 19th century house in the Kent Downs AONB. Planning approval without conditions has been secured for the additions which will combine lime washed mortar brickwork, natural zinc roofing and triple glazed composite windows and doors.
Internally bespoke joinery will be designed in combination with Portuguese limestone flooring.
