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
Alterations and additions to a large detached house in Herne Bay. The project will include new family rooms, a utility space and a new garden room. The project will use inexpensive, easily available low carbon materials in its design and construction including autoclaved masonry combined with bespoke hardwood windows and doors.
A separate garden room will allow the client to work from home.
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
New rooms for a 1927 architect designed family home on the Surrey borders.
Our proposal includes 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 contemporary brickwork volumes with varying heights that respond to the geometry and scale of the existing house.
The new rooms 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 design, combining a birch plywood construction with Carrara marble work surfaces and extensive, full height storage .
Photography: Katie Anderson
A house on the Dulwich Estate in London has been fully refurbished to create a family home.
The original layout of the house was retained but new openings were made to improve the relationships between rooms creating an informal and relaxed environment with a sense of scale, but one which could either more permeable or cellular as the clients and their children desired.
Terrazzo flooring, bespoke kitchen joinery and a neutral colour palette were combined to provide a considered backdrop to daily life and the clients growing collection of mid-century modern furniture.
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 new build 3 storey end of terrace townhouse in Gypsy Hill in South East London. The triangular site terminates an existing terrace of housing and is currently occupied by a large disused brick built garage belonging to the client, which will be demolished to create the footprint for the new house and garden and also provide materials for the new building.
The design is intended to be a contemporary reinterpretation of an archetypical late 19th century terraced property which makes up a large part of the immediate surroundings. This contextual approach is reinforced through the use of reclaimed stock bricks from the site and bespoke timber glazing to maximise natural light and views from the house.
A lower ground floor will combine living rooms and private courtyard spaces with 2 further floors of accommodation connected by a top lit stair well. The roof will have sedum planting and an array of PV cells to generate electricity for the house.
The scheme was approved following a lengthy consultation and planning process and is now being developed by the client.
The proposal is for three, multi-storey buildings arranged between Windmill Road and Thornhill Road in an informal, dense arrangement intended to promote a sense of ownership for the residents and an appropriate urban character given its location. Fronting Windmill Road a new 3-storey terraced building will contain a healthcare facility at ground foor with 2 foors of 1 bed, 2 person flats above accessed from a shared landing. The ground foor will be accessed via a covered entrance or ‘porte-cochere’ that also leads toward the 2, 4-storey blocks behind. Situated to the rear 2 matching 4 storey blocks conceived as large houses will be set around areas of private amenity space. These 2 blocks will contain 2 pairs of 2 bed 4 person flats at each foor with both stair and lift access, throughout the scheme generous landings will be provided to promote interaction between residents.
All 3 new buildings will be formed using full height loadbearing brickwork panels with expressed brickwork external reveals. Each building will have its own tone and type of brick as a compositional device and at each floor edge pre-fabricated concrete consoles will be tonally matched to the adjacent brickwork, creating the impression of a stacked construction.
The scheme has now been submitted to LB Croydon for their consideration.
