CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS


FRAMELESS WINDOWS


Lumi Windows lumiwindows.com


CONCRETE FRAME PANELS Cornish Concrete cornishconcrete.co.uk


BOILING WATER TAP


Quooker quooker.co.uk


AIR HEAT SOURCE PUMPS Mitsubishi


les.mitsubishielectric.co.uk


STRUCTURAL STEELWORK & STAIRCASES


Richard Perkins www.perkinsengineering.co. uk


DUMBWAITER


Husbands Lift Solutions www.husbands.co.uk


TILES (INDOOR & OUTDOOR)


Novabell (supplied by Bleakleys Tiles) www.novabell.it/en www.bleakleystiles.co.uk


that glorious coastal light flood in. Her favourite element of the build? The master bedroom, she says without pausing. The large window here is framed by a curving wall that was created to reflect the curve of the waves below and the gentle swell of hills behind the house. “Waking up in this bedroom in the morning gives me immense joy; you can look out of the window everywhere you are: even in the bath you can lie and relax and watch the trees growing.” There were plenty of ‘wow’ moments in the building project, but also a few groans along the way. Decisions sometimes had to be made quickly, 200 miles away from the build, which brought its own challenges. As an architect, Ruairidh is more used to working on commercial properties. For their house he travelled up and down the country many times to oversee the project alongside the builder and project


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manager. Between the house purchase in September 2013, it was three years later that demolition was completed with work starting on Runic House in January 2017. “One of the challenges stemmed from Ruairidh being used to working with very high end property and high spec is the norm. We realised that some people don’t have the same vision and attention to detail. Outside was really straightforward, but the interiors required quite a different skill set.” “We started renovating 12 years ago and it is so different now,” she says of the process. “Even with the basics of what you put into the kitchen now is totally different.” Their top spec kitchen features a Quooker tap and two dishwashers.


Cutting edge technology controls the lighting, music and heating in each room. The subterranean level houses a plant room where


april/may 2020


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