Clever design
The finished house is incredibly clever, set across three storeys of varying sizes to anchor it to the natural sloping landscape which boasts a gra- dient of around 25 per cent. Parking sits almost level with a sedum roof that tops the light-filled atrium on the small top floor where a door leads to the only room on this level – the first of two master bedrooms with an en suite. The middle floor has the largest floor space
and houses three bedrooms, a family bathroom and the living room. The bedrooms have double height ceilings to access light wells and internal windows from the light-filled top floor as well as Velux windows in the sloping roof operated by touchpad controls in each room. The living room sits at the southern end of the house and features a sloping ceiling rising to double height with four Velux windows set into the beamed ceiling, which Stuart likens to an art gallery. But the main feature here is the picture window, the width of the room and taking in a panoramic sweep of the town. A simple colour scheme throughout the house
ties the three floors together with white walls, engineered oak floors and varying tones of grey in the decor – from black chairs in the kitchen and a charcoal sofa and cushions in the living room to the grey feature walls and light grey sheepskin rugs in the bedrooms, wool throws on the bed and silver-grey tiling floors of the family bathroom and around the kitchen units. The bottom floor houses the kitchen/diner and a small utility room. Here the main attraction is
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LOW POINT The discovery of a
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