project he was working on.” The Good Life workshop is in Canworthy


Water near Launceston, in the heart of the North Cornwall countryside, where a team of experienced craftsmen design and make kitchens, staircases and furniture, as well as oak frames, windows and doors. “The workmanship is fantastic, they use traditional carpentry methods, which is exactly what we wanted,” says Bob.


Stuart Bowman-Harris recalls the first time he visited the site, on the back of Bob’s quad bike. “We went up an overgrown track and there, nestled in the trees, was this decrepit caravan,” says Stuart. “There’s a certificate of lawfulness for the site, and the size, construction and


mobility of a replacement building all needed to be taken into account.”


Stuart worked with Bob and Pat to design a single-storey timber building which, at just 41 square metres in size, is only slightly larger than the old caravan previously occupying the site. There was already a phone line and mains water but no mains sewage, which needed to be installed, and steps lead up to the site from a designated parking area. “It’s such a special, private setting that we


didn’t want to disturb it more than necessary and the piece of land isn’t very wide, so these constraints were taken into account at the design stage,” says Bob. “Stuart made a sketch, which we reduced slightly in height, and that


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