LOW POINT


“There were a few delays that couldn’t be helped such as the sewer issue, but we weren’t stressed about it – we knew it would be sorted.” – Sam


After a meeting with director, Jamie Anderson, an initial brief was established in October 2022. “We didn’t give Jamie much of a brief,” says Sam. “We really did leave it very much up to him although I wanted whatever we did to make sense with the garden, so we could actually utilise it.” ane continues  didn’t want it to be a box,  wanted it to appeal to open plan family living and I wanted the fi nishing touches to be important. For the Armans, their brief to Pend seemed rather vague but for Jamie and project architect, Ben MacFarlane, the site had already given them an idea as to what they could design and how to achieve it as en recalls amie had the fi rst meeting with Sam and Jane and then I came on board when we started the drawings and it quickly became apparent there was one design that we wanted to put forward.” Surprisingly, what interested and inspired Ben


were the constraints that the site threw up t Pend we like to dial into the constraints at the outset. What are going to be the potential pitfalls later in the project? If we factor them in at the start, it’s less to navigate later.”


“This extension has completely changed how we live in this house”


The issues in this case were the slope that the original house and garden were built on, neighbours on both sides, a retaining wall, and a public sewer which ran through the garden and now runs under the new extension. “The arrangement of the space and the


relationships to the garden came to us quite quickly and Jamie and I both felt this was the design and thankfully Jane and Sam felt the same,” says Ben. end’s design incorporated a new kitchen diningliving space at the rear of the property with a utility room in the middle of the house, a generous shower room under the stairs and a playroom between the hallway and sitting area for


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