Contemporary meets classic in this stylish listed home
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When searching to obtain their initially residence, this family was looking to place roots down and convey their individual imaginative style. They had lived in Oxfordshire ahead of but struggled to locate the right assets at the appropriate price right before shifting overseas. During a family pay a visit to back again to the space a pair of many years later, they took a detour off the motorway.
‘We missed the scent of freshly slice grass and went the extended way via the Oxfordshire countryside,’ the now-house owners remembers. ‘A Grade II-detailed Georgian dwelling caught my eye and then I noticed it was for sale.’
The house
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‘It was comprehensive of attractive massive rooms with high ceilings, sash home windows and loads of natural gentle.From the exterior, the symmetrical overall look was like the doll’s household I’d drawn as a kid – it was particularly the dwelling we preferred.’
Previously a farmhouse with outbuildings, the assets had remained rather a lot unchanged above time. The a few bed room residence had been constructed back in 1836 and desired a bit of a facelift. The pair ended up eager to generate a residence with en-suite bedrooms and open up-approach living place ideas – the type of property they’d never ever had ahead of. So ideas had been quickly place in position for an extension that necessary cautious thing to consider for conservation planning approval.
The sitting down space
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‘Architectural symmetry at the entrance is element of the outlined position so we could not lengthen to the side. Our architect developed a glazed rear extension, accessed as a result of a hyperlink hallway making an architectural bridge between the aged and new. I required a modern common look that would perform with the contemporary extension strategies but still be sympathetic to the heritage of the household.’
The sitting down place is in the extension, which has a striking ceiling with prolonged skylight.
The eating region
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‘This area is entire of pure light-weight, even on cloudy times, for the reason that of the great glazed doorways.’ Room was produced for a table in the sitting down room as the couple needed to include things like a large desk for entertaining.
The kitchen
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The was drawn to Neptune’s Suffolk kitchen area and furnishings for the design simplicity. The glazed attractive wall units are complete of character and really feel like an unique feature.
The breakfast space
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A community joiner produced cupboards to cover the boiler and develop storage.
The primary bedroom
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‘My buddy has this curtain material in maroon and I’ve generally beloved the print. I purchased the blue colourway and that impressed blue for the partitions of the learn bed room thoughts.’
The en suite
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A modern day bathtub was picked out to make a assertion and the basin was picked for its common seems to be.
The guest bed room
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‘I wished muted blues and greys almost everywhere but immediately after decorating the guest bedroom I realised the color didn’t contrast very well with the oak household furniture. I redecorated it in a fantastic shade of environmentally friendly rather. Green was a well known Georgian decorating colour and seems to be lovely with the oak.’
Extra text/Jane Crittenden
