CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS


AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMP Worcester Bosch worcester-bosch.co.uk


ARCHITECT Studio BAD studiobad.co.uk


BATHROOM TILES Artisans of Devizes artisansofdevizes.com


METAL CLADDING MANUFACTURER SSAB www.ssab.com


METAL CLADDING INSTALLER


McKinnon Roofi ng & Cladding ckinnonoofi ngandcladdingcouk


TIMBER CLADDING SUPPLIER Russwood www.russwood.co.uk


that they wanted to make it as family-friendly as possible.


“The lady who lived in the house before had her family grow up in the home, and it had clearly been a happy place, the family even left a note for us when we moved in,” smiles Lettie. “We wanted to keep the essence of that, while giving the property a new lease of life, allowing our family to follow in their footsteps.” However, Lettie explains that the interior of the house “was very dated with the design, fi nished ith vey s fi tues and fi ttings which made it feel quite dark.” The existing layout felt cramped, the living room and kitchen were small and all the bedrooms and the one athoo ee on the gound  oo o and Lettie’s priorities were to have “a large, social kitchen with generous glazing to connect to the garden.” Working with Darren and his team at Studio BAD, Lettie and Tom decided to form two new bedrooms within a dramatic loft extension, leaving one edoo on the gound  oo to doule as a snug and allo o  eile use in future. Adding this new storey freed up space to create a new kitchen/dining room, living room and WC. This also allowed new space for an ensuite in the ain fi st  oo edoo and a family bathroom at this level too, taking the size o the house o 2


to 2 . The couple knew Darren, as he had carried out


a project locally to Lettie’s parents in the New Forest which they really liked. “We got three quotes from different architects, but felt tudio  as the est fi t o the oect and liked their style,” Tom explains. “The main question we had with the architect was how


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to add those bedrooms in the loft space, without causing issues of overlooking the neighbours’ properties.”


Their home is located in the South Downs National Park, so Tom and Lettie knew from the start that extra effort would be needed to achieve planning approval, which took eight weeks to secure. Darren brought in a planning consultant, Debra Slade, to help shape their thoughts and understand what was achievable. This collaborative approach helped them engage with the planning team at the South Downs National Park Authority from an early stage of the design process. As Cedarwood stands within a sensitive rural location the designs had to carefully alter the home without impacting the original mass or form, to reduce impact on the surrounding area. Keeping conversations open about the design and expectations was especially helpful when it came to the dormer windows. Due to the orientation of the house, adding standard dormer windows would have caused privacy issues as the new glazing would look over the neighbouring homes. “We came up with the idea to shift the window openings, angling them to the side,” says Darren. “This offered quite a few advantages. Firstly, it solved the issue of overlooking and created windows with framed views over rural countryside. Secondly, this approach creates an internal window seat space in each bedroom which makes a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the garden. Also, the angled windows make the building look really innovative and striking from the outside, which we all really like.” To accommodate the new bedrooms in what


TIMBER CLADDING TREATMENT SiOO:X sioox.com


INTERNAL DOORS Howdens www.howdens.com


EXTERNAL DOORS Norsken www.norrsken.org


FLOORING Sutton Timber www.suttontimber.co.uk


GLAZING Norsken www.norrsken.org


HEATING INSTALLATION Roost Heating roostheating.co.uk


KITCHEN


The Used Kitchen Company theusedkitchencompany.com


MAIN CONTRACTOR Chris Bentley, CRB Builders crbbuilders@tiscali.co.uk  


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