Building Better Living

Currently on site. The facade carries mortise and tenon blade screens over steel. Hidden fixings, every angle offset and considered. You could do a batten screen out of aluminium. This is not that. Follow the build in the journal as it takes shape.

This is how a commission appears while it is still on the drawing board. We join at the earliest drawings, so the vision is tested against the build before anyone commits to it. As the project matures, this entry grows into a full case study.

The original fabric was retained and repaired, then a contemporary addition steps down into the garden in stone and glass. Demolition revealed latent conditions and returned space the plans never promised, which became rooms the family now lives in daily.

Handmade brick, deep reveals and a rear elevation that dissolves into the landscape. The living room anchors around a fireplace, the kitchen carries full height stone, and the pool terrace reads as one continuous room in summer.

The kitchen is cut from a single run of marble and the powder room turns around a circular mirror. The joinery is hidden fixed throughout. Nothing shouts, and that is the point.

Full height glazing meets a pared back palette. The hallway reads as a single gesture, and the facade details were resolved with the architect on site, week by week, until every junction disappeared.

The house was taken back to structure, then rebuilt with recycled brick and two pack cabinetry. Every trade was sequenced so each finish protected the one before it. That order is the whole job, and it is why the work was photographed.

The street presence is deliberately modest. Inside, a sculpted stone sink and considered planes carry the same discipline through every room in the house.

Shadow line ceilings, flush thresholds and a bedroom of quiet planes. The kind of restraint that only holds when the build is exact.

Existing rooms were retuned rather than replaced. The shelving wall was built by our joiners and installed as the final trade, protected by the sequence that came before it.

The original front rooms were kept intact. The new volume steps away in scale and material, so the old and the new each hold their own. The hallway cabinetry stitches the two together.

Layered lighting, warm timber and a plan that pulls the living spaces together around the kitchen. A house that changes character as the day does.

The arrival sequence was rebuilt so coming home feels considered. The extension carries the family's daily life while the original house keeps its ceremony.