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ARCHITECTURE & BUILD Artel 31 www.artel3.co.uk


GARDEN DESIGN Hither Garden Design hithergardendesigns.co.uk


KITCHEN Kitchen Flair www.kitchenfl airuk.com


BATTERY & INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEM My Energi www.myenergi.com


RENEWABLE ENERGY Energy Zone www.energyone.co.uk


extension is ‘raw’, with exposed beams in the ceiling, and a stone wall in the kitchen, formerly the fi eld boundary. bove the ceiling beam is the decking that forms the basis of the sedum roof, so with no space for cabling, James and my’s builders routed ducts into the beams and dropped in L strips from above, before fi xing the decking board. ’ve always liked beauty in function, says ames.  like the Pompidou entre.


nother good example of this is the extractor fan above the couple’s two verhot hobs. s my does a lot of sian cooking, this produces smoke and ames was uoted 3, for a professional extractor. nwilling to fi nd this in the budget, ames was lucky that ob lkins offered to design a similar product and have it engineered bespoke, for a fraction of the cost.


The kitchen itself posed another challenge for the couple. hile the mellow otswold stone brings warmth, texture and character to the home, using an existing wall meant tanking to the height of the countertop. n addition, the fl oor in the extension needed to be dug out by a minimum of 3mm to get a good ceiling height and also stay within the existing height of the wall. This, however, revealed an electrical cable that turned out to be the undocumented main feed for their and their neighbour’s properties. t ran right through our kitchen, recalls ames. ll work stopped while the electrical company ran three new mains off a pole in our paddock at an absolutely extraordinary cost. t took four months and involved switching off the power to our neighbours. t was uite fraught. The sedum roof and the ground source heat pump are ust two parts of the package of sustainable measures the couple chose to


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futureproof their home. Solar panels installed on a shed in the paddock provide power, which feeds into a battery. This in turn powers both the home and charges the couple’s two electric cars. n the summer, it is suffi cient for their needs. n the winter, the battery draws power from the grid at times of cheaper energy. The entire system is integrated into one control, which can be operated via a phone app. s a venture capitalist, ’m a futurist, says ames. f  have to rebuild a house,  say let’s do it once. The software may be bleeding edge, but energy- wise, it’s fi ne and someone has to be the early adopter.’


The extensive glaing also offers rather


more low-tech’ passive solar gain, particularly as the extension is south-facing. To prevent overheating, ob designed a roof overhang of .m on the extension, which works beautifully. round the two wings’ of the home, there is new glaing throughout. lthough glaed during the original conversion, the framing was reaching the end of its life and James and my’s new aluminium double-glaed units are both attractive and energy-effi cient. ow, every part of their home has a view of the courtyard garden. hen  come through the gate,  think ’m


here. ’m safe’, says my. The courtyard is effectively an internal space and the clever garden design brings visitors directly to the front door, using raised beds and careful planting. e lived in a fl at and we had no idea, so we hired a garden designer, says my. There’s also lighting in the courtyard and at night this integrates the courtyard into the house even if it’s too cold to go outside as it changes the perception of the space.


Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the


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