CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS


ARCHITECT Brown & Brown brownandbrown.studio


ENGINEER


Design Engineering Workshop


designengineeringworkshop.co.uk


CONTRACTOR Coldwells Building Company coldwellsbuilding.com


JOINER Angus+Mack angusandmack.com


FLOORING concreto.uk


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KITCHEN DK&I


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Knocking the majority of the building down and starting again was the most sensible option


the treetops and the second and third bedrooms share a Jack & Jill bathroom. At present, the third bedroom is used permanently as a gym. The interior layout has focused more on having a smaller number of rooms while making them better. “There’s only Russel and Wendy living here and they don’t need six bedrooms. It’s about using the space for what you enjoy every day. Hence the gym, but if their children need to come home, it can be a bedroom again.” Downstairs the layout is functional and eye- catching with Brown & Brown meeting the brief of “something the clients couldn’t design themselves”. Access to the house is intriguing. You enter through a door adjacent to the garage which leads into the colonnade to the front door. “You turn your back’ on your car and the street, and you start to experience the courtyard and then the house,” explains Andrew. At the front door are the practical areas with boot and coat storage, a utility room, a renewable heating plant room, and a shower room. This leads into a double height atrium which connects to the garden to the south and the treescape to the north. These large glass walls frame the heart of the home. Around the corner are the deliberately dark elements of the kitchen which was fitted by DI and contrasts


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dramatically with the light-filled atrium. Brown  Brown also switched 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. From here you head to the three-sided, glass sitting room, which gives the feeling of having walked into the garden. Andrew says: “It was very important for us to


ensure that the layouts and the spatial qualities met Russel and Wendy’s specific requirements, and that the home reects them and how they want to live.”


KEY FEATURES


The focal point of the ground oor is the stunning spiral staircase – which Brown & Brown had included in their sketches from the very start of the project. “The two-storey atrium has a level ceiling at the top and it needed something in the space that ensured it didn’t feel like a box,” says Andrew. The birch plywood staircase was designed by Brown & Brown in collaboration with local craftsmen; bespoke cabinet makers Angus+Mack. The timber treads were individually cut, and hand layered to create the parabolic curve, which took three weeks to assemble.


sep/oct 2023 Russwood russwood.co.uk


SANITARYWARE kastconcretebasins.com aquabella.com geberit.co.uk


TAPWARE Vado


vado.com


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