When the house owners of this three-bed, semi-detached Edwardian home in Surrey, the decor wasn’t to their style. In addition they discovered having the kitchen on a special ground to the lounge was inconvenient for household life.
Since then, they’ve opened up and lengthening the downstairs, which implies they’ll spend all their household time there. They’ve additionally gained a visitor bedroom-cum-home workplace within the course of.
The outside
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The house owners had relocated from a flat in London and had all the time dreamed of a interval property with a contemporary extension thought on the again, which this home had potential to realize.
There have been two rooms on every of the three flooring, which have been all a superb measurement and every had a hearth – even the lavatory. Nonetheless, the decrease floor ground was damp and gloomy with a staircase separating the kitchen and eating room, and the one approach into the backyard was by a facet door and alongside a passageway.
The split-level residing turned a sensible downside when their daughter arrived the next yr. ‘We have been reliant on utilizing the facet entrance for the buggy because it was at floor stage, however we nonetheless needed to carry her up and down the steep stairs between the kitchen and lounge,’ the house owners clarify. ‘We started to consider how we may streamline the structure and make the backyard extra accessible.’
The extension
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The house owners had visualised one through-room with bi-fold doorways onto the backyard, in order that’s the place they began when briefing the architects.
‘They [the architects] had some concepts about shifting the staircase and constructing a bigger extension, however we weren’t positive if we’d see our a refund and didn’t need to lose any of the backyard,’ the couple instructed us.
As an alternative, they knocked by the kitchen and eating room leaving the staircase because it was and prolonged 2.5 metres over the place the concrete patio had been.
‘We love the lengthy roof window within the extension that marks the change between the previous and new because it brings in plenty of ambient gentle.’
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The couple additionally took the extension as vast as they may to the boundary line. This has made a giant distinction to the eating room thought, making area for a desk that seats six. Cream tones in Farrow & Ball’s Wimborne White match the heat of the blond wooden and make the room gentle and vivid.
Though the change meant the passageway was blocked off from the backyard, this did not matter as they didn’t want the entry any longer.
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Whereas the higher flooring had pretty interval particulars, downstairs had none so the house owners needed one thing to focus their design concepts on. A favorite piece of furnishings is the bespoke mid-century sideboard that they received from a furnishings designer in a raffle.
‘We each love the clear strains of this period, it’s a versatile design traditional that sits comfortably in our previous home and works properly with up to date Scandi kinds just like the blond wooden flooring, rattan equipment and furnishings.’
Partitions have been painted white to maintain the area as gentle as doable, whereas curiosity and color have been launched with artwork and greenery.
The kitchen
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The economic-style kitchen thought is impressed by the house owners’ favorite eating places and boasts darkish cabinets to floor the room. Lighter partitions give the phantasm of top and area.
Cabinets from Blok Design Kitchens have been painted in Farrow & Ball’s Railings, teamed with white metro tiles and a stainless-steel sink. The uncovered metallic extractor fan ducting pipe is one other intelligent industrial contact.
Wall cabinets would’ve made the room really feel enclosed and the house owners liked the country look of open cabinets so requested their builder to make some for them. He additionally made the chimney breast extra symmetrical to slot in a variety cooker and slim cabinets on both facet.
The lounge
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In the lounge thought, the house owners went for mid-century model sofas from Made.com and French Connection at DFS, accessorising with Scandi touches just like the H&M bamboo plant pot and Ikea mirror. The framed aerial seashore photograph by Grey Malin was an anniversary reward.
The master suite
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The proprietor grew up with William Morris wallpaper and felt the Brer Rabbit print in Slate had a relaxing tone that complemented Farrow & Ball’s Tallow on the partitions.
‘I like flower drawings and Japandi model – it is a King and McGaw print of a web page in a 1500s Japanese botanical e book.’
The visitor room
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One of many greatest challenges the house owners confronted was making the spare room work. It began life as the lounge, turned a visitor bed room thought, then a house workplace throughout lockdown. Now it’s a room that achieves each!
‘We toyed with having a settee mattress in right here however as each units of grandparents go to for longer stays we needed them to really feel snug,’ they clarify.
The forest mural by Insurgent Partitions ties in with the picket desk and cabinets, giving the room an id appropriate for each home-working and in a single day company.
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The Tikamoon desk echoes the mid-century model downstairs and displaying vegetation on the cabinets carry the clean wall to life.
The youngsters’ room
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The kids’s room thought is enjoyable and vibrant – bunk beds are customised with wall stickers from Decowall and the cover covers are from H&M Residence.
The lavatory
Through the rest room concepts renovation, they toyed with the thought of eradicating the chimney breast so they may have a separate bathe and bathtub. Nonetheless, they determined in opposition to it because the previous fire was an essential characteristic for them.
‘Bathtub time in our home is a treasured routine and it’s good to have the area to be in there along with the kids.’
The splashback behind the basin matches the hexagons on the other wall above the tub. Siesta Cork Tiles’ flooring was a safer choice than slippery porcelain and appears like the actual factor. Area of interest shelving breaks up the expanse of wall and the small hexagon mosaics inside add curiosity.
The summer time home
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As an alternative of knocking the summer time home thought down, the house owners revamped it with larger doorways, home windows and electrics – it turned a useful additional room throughout lockdown.
‘The entire transformation was so rewarding and a shock to family and friends as after they got here into our spacious downstairs room it wasn’t what they have been anticipating from the surface. I like the distinction between the previous interval options and the brand new half we’ve created, particularly when the solar is shining, the doorways are open, and the youngsters are operating out and in,’ concludes the house owners.
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