CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS
ARCHITECT CAD Architects
www.cadarchitects.co.uk
WINDOWS Rationel
www.rationel.co.uk
KITCHEN Miele
www.miele.co.uk
BOILING WATER TAP Quooker
www.quooker.co.uk
BATH Hurlingham
www.hurlinghambaths.co.uk
SOUND SYSTEM Sonos; Bowers & Wilkins
www.sonos.com
www.bowerswilkins.com
Western Railway toilet roll holder. The house is dotted with upcycled and reclaimed architectural elements and interiors accessories. The ‘reclamation royalty’ continues in the first floor living room which sits opposite the master suite and features a glorious herringbone laid parquet floor. “It came from a post-war Cornish bungalow built in the 1940s,” comments Simon. The living room also features a 14 ft high vaulted ceiling, triple aspect windows which you come to expect on such a property, and a Juliet balcony onto a recessed oak floored balcony. The floor is matched with period lacquered steel style radiators and there is a contemporary woodburning stove set on a slate hearth.
Environmental credentials were important to Simon. The house is triple glazed, and was “insulated carefully” for best results, and the waste water treatment plant discharges drinking quality water back into the water course.
In terms of the challenges, Simon says, “There’s a tipping point – a point in time when you get three-quarters into the project and it still looks like a building site. You have all this money invested in it and it is nowhere near finished. And then suddenly it is finished and it’s your home.”
Simon continues: “You have got to have an obsessive personality for a self-build: you have to live and breathe it and go to sleep thinking about it and wake up thinking about all the little things you need to do. You also need to plan a long time ahead.
“You do have to compromise. I sometimes obsess over things and then I realise it’s not always necessary.”
november/december 2019
Simon rented a house for three years while the work was being carried out. “Never move into a house before it’s completely finished or
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