LOW POINT
“It sounds cheesy, but asides from the few delays due to the pandemic there wasn’t really a low point on this particular project. Progress was quite good throughout, and everyone involved on the job was a pleasure to deal with.”
was better than what was there. In her view, creating this stone boundary wall would enhance the area and allow that plot to fit in with the others in the area.”
CANTILEVERED SOLUTION To marry the old and new in this location, the cantilevered design is arranged over two storeys and is tucked into the north corner of the plot to provide privacy and to capture the southern sunlight. One entire wall of the coach house was retained to create a modern colonnade, lit by the original window apertures of the coach house. The stonework that came down from the rest of the coach house was reused to build the stone elevations, the garage and the boundary walls at the side. Softening the austerity of the new build is a mature copse of trees in the garden. “The trees certainly make it feel like it’s not a house in the middle of a city. If the trees weren’t here, I think it would be a completely different design – they were certainly a blessing.” For Russel and Wendy, they bring a bit of country’ as well as privacy: “iving in the countryside, you get accustomed to a level of privacy and tranquillity and this house gives us this in an urban setting.” Internally, the layout is designed to be adapted for independent living later in life if so required, but also to serve two separate purposes on each of the two levels. “This property is designed so that Russel and Wendy could easily live on the ground oor and the first oor would become only for guests. Presently the principal bedroom suite is upstairs,
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Brown & Brown also swapped around the usual layout of dining, kitchen, and living areas to defined kitchen, dining and living spaces with the kitchen in the corner anchoring the space
but the downstairs study could potentially become a bedroom.” The bathrooms are all wetrooms, which
futureproofs the house, but is equally pleasing on the aesthetic front. “Using the micro cement on the walls as well as the oor is also easier to keep clean and requires no maintenance as there’s no joins or grout.”
Upstairs the principal suite benefits from a luxurious corner glazed bathroom overlooking
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