When trying to purchase their first house, this household was trying to put roots down and categorical their very own artistic model. They’d lived in Oxfordshire earlier than however struggled to seek out the best property on the proper value earlier than shifting overseas. Throughout a household go to again to the realm a few years later, they took a detour off the motorway.
‘We missed the scent of freshly minimize grass and went the great distance via the Oxfordshire countryside,’ the now-homeowners recollects. ‘A Grade II-listed Georgian home caught my eye after which I noticed it was on the market.’
The property
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‘It was stuffed with beautiful massive rooms with excessive ceilings, sash home windows and plenty of pure mild.From the surface, the symmetrical look was just like the doll’s home I’d drawn as a baby – it was precisely the house we needed.’
Previously a farmhouse with outbuildings, the property had remained just about unchanged over time. The three bed room house had been constructed again in 1836 and wanted a little bit of a facelift. The couple had been eager to create a house with en-suite bedrooms and open-plan front room concepts – the kind of house they’d by no means had earlier than. So plans had been quickly put in place for an extension that wanted cautious consideration for conservation planning approval.
The sitting room
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‘Architectural symmetry on the entrance is a part of the listed standing so we couldn’t prolong to the aspect. Our architect designed a glazed rear extension, accessed via a hyperlink hallway creating an architectural bridge between the outdated and new. I needed a contemporary basic look that will work with the modern extension concepts however nonetheless be sympathetic to the heritage of the home.’
The eating space
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The sitting room is within the extension, which has a hanging ceiling with lengthy skylight.
‘This house is filled with pure mild, even on cloudy days, due to the fantastic glazed doorways.’ House was made for a desk within the sitting room because the couple needed to incorporate a big desk for entertaining.
The kitchen
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The was drawn to Neptune’s Suffolk kitchen and furnishings for the design simplicity. The glazed ornamental wall items are stuffed with character and really feel like an authentic function.
The breakfast room
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An area joiner made cabinets to cover the boiler and create storage.
The principle bed room
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‘My good friend has this curtain cloth in maroon and I’ve at all times cherished the print. I purchased the blue colourway and that impressed blue for the partitions of the master suite concepts.’
The en suite
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A contemporary tub was chosen to make a press release and the basin was picked for its conventional seems to be.
The visitor bed room
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‘I needed muted blues and greys in all places however after adorning the visitor bed room I realised the color didn’t distinction nicely with the oak furnishings. I redecorated it in an exquisite shade of inexperienced as an alternative. Inexperienced was a well-liked Georgian adorning color and appears beautiful with the oak.’
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