Category: New Builds

This beautiful new home is tucked away on a secluded plot of land that presented challenges and opportunities. With neighbours close on two sides, a public house to another, and a vacant plot to the fourth, creating the form and orientation of the house needed careful consideration and a lot of design ability.

The result is a design that my Clients love. And why not. There are double height spaces, an open plan kitchen/dining/living area, a floating stairs within a vaulted entrance hall, a cinema room, a gym, a home office, four bedrooms with en-suites, a utility and pantry room, an integral double garage, canopied external spaces, large areas of glazing for daylight and connection to the gardens, and all wrapped up in a beautiful form of brick, slate, timber and glass.

 

 

My Clients have a secluded plot of land where they want to build their forever home. Located in a conservation area with height limitations, this design was developed to provide them with the space they required while maintaining a large wrap around garden and drive.

The house layout is designed to create a sense of arriving home as soon as you pass the entrance gates. A full height entrance hall with a suspended stairs welcomes you into the house. A wide corridor with full height glazing then leads you into the vaulted ceiling kitchen/dining/day lounge, which in turn leads out onto an external patio areas covered by an extended roof.

The garden is linked to the house by large areas of glass and folding sliding doors to create amazing views out from the interior.

My Clients had a clear view of what they wanted as their new home on a large plot. I worked closely with them to develop their brief, create design concepts, and a final design that ticked all the boxes. Deep roof overhangs, large internal rooms that link together and with the surrounding gardens, covered external sitting areas, and a large kitchen/living/dining area with vaulted ceilings provide a great family home. This will certainly be a standout feature house in the town of Underwood.

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Designing a new home for a Client who is an engineer and an artist was always going to be a challenge…

​However, our collaboration has worked well and a beautiful home has been designed that connects with the garden areas, takes advantage of the sun’s path through the sky and fully provides their requirements for how they want to live in the house.

​Zones have been created inside that flow with the sun’s path and the time of day that the Client’s will be using those area, from early morning sun to the office and day lounge, to late evening sun to the evening lounge and external patio areas accessed via fully opening folding sliding doors.

​A simple palette of timber cladding and brick with strong shapes creates a composition which is both contemporary and soft with low maintenance requirements.

This three storey house replaces an existing bungalow that sits on a North-South orientated plot. A recent housing development located some 70m away to the south of the plot on lower land blocked views to the open Derbyshire countryside. I developed the design to reinstate these views from the first and second floor levels. A south facing balcony to the Master bedroom is also provided to take full advantage of the beautiful countryside views.

The kitchen and day-lounge is located in a single storey side annex with full height vaulted ceilings and a three storey high entrance area creates volume and an expansive feeling of space. A corner of the kitchen/day lounge fully opens up with the use of folding sliding doors to provide uninterrupted access and views to the garden and covered patio area which has an external fire/BBQ area.

A contemporary house hidden away from view in a wood full of oak trees sounds like the ideal location to live. And it is. A farming family wanted a new home that they could move into on their land in the green hills of Wales. With beautiful views across the valley, the design opens up the front and rear elevations with almost complete floor to roof glazing and a double height internal space that makes the inside and outside visually feel like one space.

Locally sourced natural materials are used to help make the house blend and age with it’s natural habitat. The layout is split into three zones. One for living, one for sleeping and one for circulation that links the other two together

Environmental design is close to their hearts and so a ground source heat pump is being integrated to provide all their hot water and heating requirements. A local natural spring will also provide water.