LIVING SPACE


The living space features floor to ceiling wall to wall windows.


EXTERIOR


The floor to ceiling glass features the stone walls


HIGH POINT


“One passer-by actually congratulated us on such a great addition to the cottage – linking it to the original granite barn – little did they know that the granite barn was part of the new addition!”


their perfect new Cornish home. The couple bought the cottage to become their forever home, and had undertaken work to turn it into a home before embarking on an extensive project that went beyond updating and modernising the inside. Enter Van Ellen and Sheryn architects, who created a design to double the size of the building. Work began on site in October 2018 and was completed at the end of 2019. The couple worked with a quantity surveyor which made cost control and managing stage payments much easier for them and their contractor – something Jason recommends to anyone undertaking a self-build or major renovation.


DESIGN


The design and building work took 12 months to complete. The couple chose architects Van Ellen and Sheryn after reading about them in a homes magazine. “We hoped to achieve a style of two distinctive halves, deliberately bringing together a period and modern element,” adds Fiona. “We didn’t want the new addition to look like an extension built in white stone like the cottage. There were easily identifiable issues that any design would need to rectify, not least an awkwardly-positioned garage. The original


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house was orientated in such a way that the large rear garden was cut off from the house – and as with many period properties of this type,


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