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Contents July 2022 Regulars 69 SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE 11 EDITOR’S LETTER 13 issues of Grand Designs magazine for just £29.99 17 KEVIN McCLOUD Our editor-at-large reports 146 MY GRAND IDEA Creating back from Barkitecture a bioclimatic house in the 2022, a design competition French countryside with a difference 1173 146 News 13 ARCHITECTURE UPDATE New and inspiring projects 113 KITCHEN UPGRADE The latest designs, surfaces and appliances 127 BATHROOM EDIT Stylish new additions for the smallest room 127 MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 5

CONTENTS Homes 20 SURREY SELF-BUILD The trials and triumphs of constructing a house on a tricky sloping site 33 GEORGIAN RENOVATION Turning a listed five-storey townhouse into a family home required the perfect mix of meticulous planning and passion 47 HISTORICAL REMODEL Built in 1892, this narrow house in Chicago, USA, needed more light and a much better layout 58 ECO-FRIENDLY APARTMENT Two architects transformed their north London flat with a careful eye on sustainability 20 33 Projects 105 BUYER’S GUIDE TO CLADDING 73 GRAND BUILD An update on the What to consider when choosing changes to Building Regulations a new exterior finish 79 GRAND GUIDE Ten houses taking 117 PROJECT KITCHENS A selection advantage of their waterside settings of the latest sinks and taps 95 ACCESSIBLE DESIGN Advice and 130 PROJECT BATHROOMS Shower inspiration for creating a home that design ideas and practical solutions can be enjoyed by everyone 79 117 6 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

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EDITOR’S LETTER This month sees the introduction Approved Document S deals with the COVER PHOTO of changes to the Building provision of infrastructure for electric ANDREW WALL Regulations in England that vehicles in a new-build home. are designed to enhance energy efficiency. Anyone submitting a building notice, full If the results of a YouGov online notice or plans after 15 June must comply survey of adults in Great Britain are with the updated rules, which apply if anything to go by, these changes will you’re undertaking certain renovations be very welcome. Conducted on behalf or building something new such as an of the Building Societies Association extension or a house. (BSA) and the National Custom and Self Build Association (NaCSBA), the Approved Documents L, F and O detail survey revealed that a significant number the standards that homes must meet to help – 89 per cent – of those interested in towards the government’s aim of lowering building their own homes feel that household carbon emissions. Part L covers energy efficiency is important to them. a structure’s energy efficiency, part F is concerned with ventilation, and part O is You can find more detail on the updated designed to prevent a building overheating. Building Regulations and how the entire process works in the feature on P73. KAREN STYLIANIDES, EDITOR @StylianidesK PHOTOGRAPHY PAUL DYER A beautiful waterside home in Bolinas Bay, California, USA. Turn to P79 for more MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 11

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NEWS Architecture update Original projects to inspire your own self-build or renovation Country outlook One couple asked architecture practice McGonigle McGrath to replace their brick 1970s bungalow with a home that made the most of the views and had space for their four children and to host friends. Located in a small village on the edge of the Lagan Valley Regional Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, the 400sqm, five-bedroom house has a steel frame, loadbearing brick walls, hardwood windows and concrete floors. It is arranged in two slightly offset halves beneath a zinc-clad gullwing roof, with its longest side facing the valley. (mcgoniglemcgrath.com) Space manoeuvre All things bright Nimtim Architects (nimtim.co.uk) remodelled a four-bedroom 1920s Homes both old and new are dressed up semi in East Dulwich, south-east London, by removing a wall between the to surprise and delight in House of Joy kitchen and dining room and reducing the size of the hall to create a utility (Gestalten, £40, out now), a celebration room and a toilet. A clever floor-to-ceiling plywood unit by Chipfix Furniture of interior décor. Expect curves and (chipfixfurniture.co.uk) partitions the staircase from the kitchen and living arches, whimsical furniture and swathes space, and includes pocket doors, arched alcoves, cupboards and a crafting area. of pattern and print. Above all, colour reigns supreme. Selected from around the world, the houses and apartments include Memphis references, nods to eclectic 1990s styling and present-day maximalism. (gestalten.com) MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 13

NEWS Architecture update Reuse commitment On a farm in East Kilbride, Scotland, Ceangal House is a new-build home designed for a family of five by architecture practice Loader Monteith. Arranged around a courtyard, it replaces some dilapidated 19th-century buildings. One wing of the L-shaped, 220sqm house includes the living areas and a first-floor guest bedroom, the other has four bedrooms. In a bid for sustainability, 90 per cent of the masonry from the old buildings was reused and the owners cleaned more than 4,000 bricks for a herringbone floor, set above underfloor heating. (loadermonteith.co.uk) Light control Tackling the tricky conversion of a 60sqm artist’s studio in Kensington, central London, fell to Vatraa Architecture. To turn it into a 137sqm, four-bedroom home, the practice dug 4m down to build two basement bedrooms. An air-source heat pump (ASHP), mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) system, insulation and improved airtightness reduced the operational CO2 by 60 per cent. The basement and lowered ground floor are kept bright thanks to a lightwell and the glazed roof. (vatraa.com) A shift in focus Topographical WORDS CAROLINE RODRIGUES PHOTOGRAPHY AIDAN MCGRATH, MEGAN TAYLOR, solution DAPPLE, VATRAA, ANDREW WALL, JUSTIN SEBASTIAN A complete refurbishment and extension transformed a detached five-bedroom Victorian villa in north Leeds for a young family with two children. Gagarin Faced with a narrow 283sqm sloping site, Studio reorientated the house around a new cobbled courtyard and entrance, architect Srijit Srinivas designed a 117sqm, designing a covered walkway in steel and iroko with cedar cladding and a green three-bedroom house for a couple roof. A glazed link joins the 60sqm extension to the main house. Built in masonry in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India. with exposed timber scissor roof trusses and clad in raised seam zinc, it mirrors Srijit took advantage of the slope with the gabled roofs and dark gritstone of the house. (gagarinstudio.co.uk) stepped levels following the contours of the land. The entrance opens onto an internal courtyard with a skylight and leads to a living room, kitchen, dining area and a bedroom with en suite. A concrete staircase leads up to an en-suite bedroom with a balcony, a second living room and another en-suite bedroom. (srijitsrinivas.com) 14 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

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EXCLUSIVE COLUMN Kevin McCloud Our editor-at-large on a design contest with a difference, where the joy of taking part was its own reward Design competitions are promotion afforded him by John Ruskin, by its risk. Reputations can be cast down considered the lifeblood which in turn was only possible thanks or alternatively made near immortal. of development, the to Ruskin’s personal wealth derived opportunity for patrician from his family’s interests in trading But, as Michelangelo suggested, landowners, company boards and alcohol. Michelangelo, a man intent the experience for the creative, munificent philanthropists to engage on discovering fresh meaning within architect or artist is not always with creative minds and to play the role a block of pristine marble, did not as refreshing or rejuvenating. For of patron. Patronage is an altogether enjoy the process of patronage. He architects, design competitions may old-fashioned word for a rare and complained that, ‘I cannot live under be important opportunities to develop therefore exclusive experience, one pressures from patrons, let alone paint.’ ideas, compete and tender for projects, where money is spent without always but they can be fraught and time- a clear notion of what it’s being spent By the consuming for ultimately no end. on and where wealth is used to support immaculate They can sap a practice of energy the creative industries. deception of and drain the lifeblood from it. Patronage is considered noble and patronage civilised because it has often converted all stains of The late Richard Rogers told the cash that was grubbily earned into exploitation are story of how his young practice, having spotless virgin work. By this immaculate washed out worked on the fabulous Pompidou deception all stains of exploitation are Centre in Paris, opened shop and washed out and the currency is At international levels patronage waited for important corporate converted into tangible goodness is competitive. One billionaire customers to start pouring through bleached of its sins. Importantly, philanthropist builds a new gallery the door. None came and the practice patronage often results in greater public with a starchitect in California, was so lean on commissions that it accessibility to these artistic goods. We another responds with a cultural disbanded. Rogers went to America can all peer through the admirable glass centre in Sydney. A third commissions to teach, his colleague John Young of the Blavatnik School of Government an archive building in Berkshire to drove a taxi. Then came a design in Oxford that bears its patron’s name, contain, enshrine and further ennoble competition for which they were invited wonder at its openness and high his family’s archives which, if they were to tender on the recommendation principles embodied in concrete and not of national importance before, are of the RIBA. It was for Lloyds of enveloping curves, and marvel how now. Such is the transformative power London, which needed a new building. it came to be and by what means. of patronage: it can restore youth to old The competition was tough and the Without patronage Bach would bones and revitalise the spirits of the practice was under-resourced, but it have produced a very slim oeuvre, patron. It can crystallise inchoate ideas won and the Lloyds building Beethoven and Haydn would have into a tangible object or space. It can concretised its reputation. This retired as music teachers with very little lend importance and seriousness. to their name and countless great artists Culture and progress can be measured would be unknown to us. Turner is the giant of English painting only thanks to the enduring support and tireless MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 17

EXCLUSIVE COLUMN was all skin-of-teeth stuff, a familiar So my enormous thanks go out to The Dome-Home, situation where the patron was the judges who gave so generously of Foster + Partners’ insulated by wealth and the practices their time: Stephen Bayley, the design Barkitecture entry pitching for work were desperately authority and author for whom the exposed and vulnerable. term guru was invented; Keith Weed, for their money. The financial president of the Royal Horticultural contribution each entrant received Your author writes this mindfully Society, who amazingly had just was £250 which, of course, didn’t cover and with a little guilt because I’ve just finished hosting the Chelsea Flower the petrol, and everyone dedicated got back from Sussex where I helped Show the day before; and the comedy much more cash and infinite energy to curate Barkitecture, a design genius that is Bill Bailey who, just as to their projects. It was, in short, competition with a different bent. amazingly, had finished a year-long humbling to witness the enthusiasm It was part of a huge festive event tour the night before. They brought as and joy with which the designers called Goodwoof, organised by the much design knowledge, fun, grace, poured their souls into the work. Duke of Richmond and his team. wit and charm as was palpable in the By now you’ll have guessed what kennel designs themselves. This was, thank goodness, an it was about. The competition was innocent project, a sweet moment to design a kennel for the 21st century, But perhaps the biggest thanks of giddy mirth after two years of and the amount of interest from have to go out to the practices who hardship and pain for all of us. There practices around the country was supported Barkitecture with their were no ulterior motives or egos to disarmingly enthusiastic. time, their sweat and their genius. be massaged. There was no patronage Most built the kennels themselves, or cut-and-thrust competitiveness. For the weekend we shortlisted in their studios or even at home. Our We weren’t commissioning a new the entries down to 16 projects, all two student exhibitors gave the more hospital, just judging a slightly silly of which were built. The line-up of mature architects an off-the-leash run and well-intentioned idea, and it was talent was stellar: the incomparable glorious. It was, for all its lightness and master of the modern villa, John shared enthusiasm, just about the best Pardey; Haysom Ward Miller, the kind of design competition you could winners of House of the Year in 2018; have hoped for. and three practices who have enjoyed exposure on Grand Designs. Norman Foster produced an exquisite piece of modern marquetry; Richard Rogers’ practice designed a kennel as a tribute to Star Wars; David Linley built a miniature Venetian palazzo, the Doge’s House – geddit? – and Hopkins Architects built a refreshingly open- source design which it happily shared with all comers. All these and others were brilliant. Thousands of people and thousands of dogs enjoyed Barkitecture. Many bid on the kennels in a charity auction for the Dogs Trust that raised over £35,000, a wonderful sum. ARE YOU PLANNING Gretta Funnell’s A? Malaysian-inspired Cambridgeshire home TV’s Grand Designs is looking for exciting projects to feature on the programme. PHOTOGRAPHY TOM BAIGENT, JEFFERSON SMITH Does your build fit the bill? To apply, please visit granddesigns.tv 18 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM



American influence The memory of a stateside home inspired aspects of this house in the English countryside WORDS DEBBIE JEFFERY PHOTOGRAPHY JULIET MURPHY

HOMES SURREY IN BRIEF – LOCATION Near Farnham, Surrey TYPE OF PROPERTY Detached self-build BEDROOMS 5 PROJECT STARTED June 2019 PROJECT FINISHED November 2020 SIZE 305sqm LAND COST £400,000 BUILD COST £2,300 per sqm The secluded plot is almost an acre in size. Part of the top floor cantilevers over the level below and shelters the front door MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 21

W hen Kari Erickson saw the drawings like my parents’ house,’ Kari says. ‘I gathered pictures ABOVE Leading up to for the home she and her husband together for Kate who brought all our ideas together.’ the first-floor living Rob had commissioned, she realised area, the open-tread it resembled the house built by her The two-storey home nestles into the gradient staircase has a timber parents in 1982 in Minnesota, with some rooms and storage spaces below ground handrail and is lit USA. ‘As soon as he saw the plans my brother said, level. This kept the roof low in the landscape, but from beneath by “You’re building mum and dad’s place,’’’ Kari explains. allowed for high ceilings in the first-floor rooms, as LED strip lights there is no need for a loft. ‘The old house was at the The couple’s new home would replace the bottom of the slope and didn’t benefit from the views RIGHT The discreet 1960s-built house that they and their 11-year-old or light,’ Kate explains. ‘Walking the site, I could see blinds are triggered twin daughters Solveig and Linnea had been living the best outlook is to the south-west.’ by a light sensor in for six years. They had planned to renovate and on the roof, which extend the property, but it had subsidence and was She designed an overhanging roof to shelter the automatically lowers too rundown to make the work practical. expanse of glazing on the first floor so it didn’t cause them at dusk and raises them in So executive coach Kari and Rob, who is a sales the morning director for a manufacturing company, hired architect Kate Stoddart to design and build a replacement further the house to overheat in the summer. ‘Unusually, the up the sloping site. They were excited by the promise of improved views and light. ‘The design included living planning application was submitted in four stages,’ Kate areas upstairs, and a bank of south-facing windows just says. The proposal to build a home 10 per cent bigger than the 1960s house accounted for two applications, and once the build was complete they planned to apply for an extension – increasing the house’s size by 40 per cent in total. But then a planning consultant recommended 22 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

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HOMES SURREY THIS PAGE AND FAR LEFT The snug features a sectional Jasper sofa from Love Your Home upholstered in velvet ‘The design included living areas upstairs, and a bank of south-facing windows just like my parents’ house’ MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 25

HOMES SURREY going for a pre-application to see if the council would made the costs spiral.’ Kari and Rob compensated agree to the extension in principle, which was the case. for the unexpected expense by sourcing lower-cost After this a fourth and final application sought approval options for some of the fixtures and fittings. for the entire house, including the extension. The council agreed that building in one go would cause less disruption Although the excavations caused all sorts of to the local area compared to a phased approach and so disruptions to the schedule, having the ground gave permission for the project in full. floor partially built into the slope benefits the house as the surrounding soil provides extra insulation, The build started with excavation work and more plus the blockwork structure is insulated above than 200 lorry loads of soil removed from the site. ‘The Building Regulations standard. On the north-facing entire hill collapsed, which set us back six weeks,’ says side of the house, smaller windows limit heat loss Kari. ‘Underground waterways lead down to a stream while rooflights let in a generous amount of light. in the garden, and at one point the water was up to our knees. Our structural engineer recommended building Kari and Rob, who are both 51, specified a reinforced concrete bridge over the stream, together a mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) with a dam, retaining walls and land drains, which system and underfloor heating, which is supplied by a gas boiler. ‘We also have a rainwater harvester 26 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

ABOVE The kitchen was designed to suit Kari, who is 5ft1, so the oven is at a lower height than usual RIGHT A wall of glazing opens up the first-floor living area to a terrace so the family can relax and enjoy the views MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 27

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HOMES SURREY LEFT A woodburner with a 4,800-litre tank,’ says Kari. ‘It’s fed from the from Hwam provides a rubber-covered roof and used to water the garden.’ focal point in the living area. Kari bought the The couple’s first choice for the exterior render walnut Linear cabinet colour was white, but they realised it might not be from Room & Board the best option for a home in the countryside, so they picked a practical anthracite grey instead. This is ABOVE Engineered teamed with larch cladding and glazing with dark grey oak flooring runs frames. Inside, the doors, architrave, bannisters, kitchen throughout the space. cabinets are all dark grey, with most walls painted The window seat is a in toning shades of pale French grey. slab of American oak installed by Magic ‘When my parents built their home, I remember Bean Designs them being intent that every part of it should look good and serve a purpose,’ says Kari. ‘This was so important to us as well and there’s not one part of the house that we don’t use and enjoy every day.’ MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 29

Large-format marble tiles from Mandarin Stone were chosen for the family bathroom, which features a 1,500mm-long Vincent Alexander tub RIGHT Strips of oak cladding behind the couple’s bed provide a colour and texture contrast to the walls, which are painted in Lamp Black by Little Greene

HOMES SURREY SUPPLIERS – PROJECT TEAM STRUCTURE Paint Little Greene (littlegreene.com) FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES Architect Kate Stoddart (katestoddart.co.uk) Wardrobes, office desks and window seat Doors and windows Norrsken (norrsken.co.uk) Wood flooring UK Wood Floors Magic Bean Designs (magicbeandesigns.com) Building contractor Wey Developments (01252 795643) Rooflights Roof Maker (roof-maker.co.uk) (ukwoodfloors.co.uk) Sectional sofa Love Your Home (love-your-home.co.uk) Project manager Knight Project Management Larch cladding Vincent Timber Sanitaryware supply The Farnham Bathroom Cabinets Room & Board (knightprojectmanagement.com) (roomandboard.com) (vincenttimber.co.uk) Company (farnhambathroom.co.uk) Automated blinds QMotion Structural engineer Keith Farquharson (qmotionshades.co.uk) Associates (01322 315588) Larch treatment Sioo Wood Protection Sanitaryware Catalano (catalano.co.uk), Music/cinema system Dolby Atmos (dolby.com) Contract administrator Elson Project (sioox.org.uk) Crosswater (crosswater.co.uk), Management Limited (07748 632383) Ceiling lights Loxone (loxone.com) Landscaping Gill German (01420 472509), Render K Rend (k-rend.co.uk) Duravit (duravit.co.uk) Decorative lighting Globen Lighting Victoria Bailey Gardens Rubber roof covering Rubber4roofs Bath Vincent Alexander (globenlighting.se), (victoriabaileygardens.co.uk) Nordlux (nordlux.com), &Tradition Smart home and cinema installation (rubber4roofs.co.uk) (vincent-alexander.co.uk) Homedia (homedia.london) (andtradition.com) Fireplace Bellfires FIXTURES & FITTINGS (bellfires.online) Rempp kitchen Chisholm Design Woodburner Hwam (hwam.com) (chisholmdesign.com) MVHR Zehnder (zehnder.co.uk) Tiles Ca’Pietra (capietra.com), Underfloor heating Andrew M Winch Mandarin Stone (mandarinstone.com) (01420 22316) MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 31

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HOMES CENTRAL LONDON The spacious kitchen includes a seating area with a grand fireplace that’s original to the house. It was restored by Cliveden Conservation Turning back the years Once divided into three parts, this renovated Georgian townhouse is made whole again WORDS EMILY BROOKS PHOTOGRAPHY JIM STEPHENSON MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 33

Specialist company Paye restored the staircase. The skirting, door and architrave are painted in Railings by Farrow & Ball IN BRIEF – LOCATION Central London TYPE OF PROPERTY Georgian townhouse BEDROOMS 6, plus 2 in the basement annexe PROJECT STARTED January 2018 PROJECT COMPLETED December 2019 SIZE 500sqm PROPERTY COST £9 million BUILD COST £900,000

HOMES CENTRAL LONDON M ost of central London’s ABOVE Elsa, Leon and Georgian townhouses Thalie sit at the kitchen are not homes any more. island, which has a They’re galleries, dental Corian worksurface. surgeries, solicitors’ offices The pendant light is or commercial spaces. from Foscarini That’s why architect Anaïs Bléhaut was excited LEFT The staircase to be asked to return one of these handsome old has an ornate iron souls to its intended purpose. and timber balustrade. A mural by Michael Before Elsa and Charles Vuillet bought Dillon features exotic the five-storey house, it had been divided up, birds in a dappled sky probably in the mid-19th century, with a flat on the lower ground floor, offices on the ground MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 35 and first floors and a maisonette on the top two. ‘We knew it could be a great place to live, and that it would be loads of work,’ says Elsa. Elsa, 47, and Charles, 50, who have five children, Henri, 18, Louis, 16, Sixtine, 13, Thalie, ten, and Leon, five, came to London from France 12 years ago. ‘We wanted to live abroad for the experience, and for the

HOMES CENTRAL LONDON children to discover a new country,’ Elsa explains. But their planned 18-month stay was extended indefinitely when they fell in love with the capital. The household of seven had outgrown their previous home, and the abundance of space in the townhouse was one of its main attractions. Anaïs was given a simple brief by Elsa and Charles, who is the CEO of a cosmetics company, to create the best family home she could. ‘It was very exciting to look at the house and think, “How am I going to make this into a family home again?”’ she says. A plan developed for a kitchen, living room and dining room on the ground floor. The first floor would include a family room with TV and pool table, and a music room, with five bedrooms arranged across the two floors above. It was very exciting to look at the house and think, ‘How am I going to make this into a family home again?’ The lower-ground floor level is in two parts, with a guest bedroom, bathroom, utility room and wine cellar to the back of the house and a self-contained two-bedroom basement flat at the front. The flat was also renovated, ready for the children to move into as they reach adulthood. For Anaïs, conserving old buildings is a passion. ‘Seeing the scale of the project and the historical details in isolation was inspiring,’ she says. Once the newer partitions had been removed and the house returned to its original layout, Anaïs brought in a network of craftspeople. Plaster specialist Cliveden Conservation stripped the paint off the ornate cornicing and replaced any missing plasterwork, while stone conservationist Paye cleaned and repaired the Portland stone staircase and period fireplaces. The original pitch pine floorboards were sanded and repaired. 36 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

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HOMES CENTRAL LONDON The restored staircase is almost unrecognisable workarounds. The music room’s dividing wall, RIGHT AND BELOW from when its stonework was painted and which looks like built-in joinery, is actually the treads carpeted. This feat of Georgian a self-supporting piece. The services for the LEFT On the first floor engineering is the backbone of the house. electrics, plumbing and ventilation were shifted a freestanding dividing ‘I spend a lot of my day going up and down to a riser added to the back exterior of the house. wall with sliding doors the stairs,’ says Elsa. ‘The big windows and And the run of kitchen cabinets is anchored to separates the music the painting on the wall make it a pleasure.’ the wall in two places, for which Anaïs had room from the family to get listed building consent. room. It is lined with As well as peeling back the house’s layers, sound-absorbing Anaïs made it more practical. Two small, early Anaïs’s proposed colour palette included red velvet 20th-century extensions at the back of the shades of white, grey and black, but Elsa ground floor were rebuilt, one as a cloakroom pushed for bolder hues. ‘I wanted to make it and the other for a staircase leading down to our space,’ she says. So the smaller rooms at the the guest room, laundry and wine cellar. The front of the house are each painted a different original staircase was next to the front door, colour, with dark blue for the dining room, but it made more sense to move it to within carmine red for the music room and a mustard easy reach of the kitchen. The old stairwell was yellow for the study. New pieces of furniture blocked up and turned into a coat cupboard. sit beside old favourites and objects collected during the couple’s travels. ‘There’s a whole mix As the house is Grade II listed, Anaïs was of different influences in the house’ says Elsa. not permitted to interfere with the structure of ‘In French we’d call it boho-chic.’ the building, which called for some ingenious 38 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

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HOMES CENTRAL LONDON A bay window in Elsa MAGAZINE.COM and Charles’s en-suite bedroom is the perfect spot for a freestanding bath. The Chinese screen belonged to Elsa’s grandmother 40 JULY 2022 /

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FLOOR PLANS BEDROOM BEDROOM BATHROOM BEDROOM BEDROOM TOP FLOOR BEDROOM OFFICE DRESSING ROOM EN SUITE SECOND FLOOR MUSIC ROOM FAMILY ROOM FIRST FLOOR WC DINING ROOM LIVING AREA TERRACE 42 JULY 2022 / KITCHEN GROUND FLOOR MAGAZINE.COM

HOMES CENTRAL LONDON Pale gold brassware from Vola stands out against dark blue concrete basins in the couple’s en-suite bathroom. The limestone wall and floor tiles are from Mandarin Stone MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 43

HOMES CENTRAL LONDON SUPPLIERS – PROJECT TEAM Mural on staircase wall Michael Dillon Architect Daab Design (daabdesign.co.uk) (dillonmurals.com) Structural engineer Blue Engineering Lighting Atelier Alain Ellouz (atelier-alain- (blueengineering.co.uk) ellouz.com), Delta Light (deltalight.com), Flos Contractor Blake Builders (flos.com), Foscarini (foscarini.com), Michael (blakebuilders.co.uk) Anastassiades (michaelanastassiades.com), Stone conservation specialist Ochre (ochre.net), Rothschild & Bickers Paye (paye.net) (rothschildbickers.com) Plaster conservation specialist Cliveden En-suite bathroom tiles Mandarin Stone Conservation (clivedenconservation.com) (mandarinstone.com) AV consultant Smart AV Solutions Cast concrete basins Kast (savsolutions.co.uk) (kastconcretebasins.com) Landscape designer Olivia Rossi Fabric for blinds and upholstered (oliviarossidesign.com) music room wall Osborne & Little (osborneandlittle.com) FIXTURES AND FITTINGS Sanitaryware Duravit (duravit.co.uk) Kitchen appliances Gaggenau (gaggenau.com) FURNITURE AND ACCESSORIES Kitchen handles Buster + Punch Bed La Maison London (busterandpunch.com) (lamaisonlondon.com) Kitchen and bathroom taps Vola (vola.com) Dining table Ochre Kitchen sink Franke (franke.com) Vintage dining chairs Phillips (phillips.com) Kitchen worksurface Corian (corian.com) Kitchen stools and ground-floor sofa Paint Farrow & Ball (farrow-ball.com) Saba Italia (sabaitalia.it) TOP AND ABOVE Thalie and Leon share a room on the top floor. Anaïs created a freestanding partition with a bed on either side, one raised and one at floor level 44 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

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HOMES USA This 130-year-old house still has its original windows. A century-old front door was found at a local salvage yard Honour the past Discreet changes to this Victorian home highlighted its historical character while updating the space for the present and future WORDS JANE CRITTENDEN PHOTOGRAPHY AIMEE MAZZENGA MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 47

S ometimes reworking the layout of a home In the living room and and bringing in more light is all that’s needed throughout the house to completely transform it. This was the the walls are painted case for architect Danielle Beaulieu, her in Ice Mist OC-67 by husband David Welch and their Victorian cottage in Benjamin Moore Chicago, USA. ‘After living in our house for two years, we realised it didn’t need lots more space, things just needed to be better organised,’ says Danielle. The timber-frame building is in Logan Green, a quiet neighbourhood to the northwest of the city centre. ‘The house was built in 1892,’ says Danielle. ‘Over the years there had been at least three additions at the back, but at the front the layout and original features in the hallway, living room and dining room remained largely unchanged.’ The cottage is on a plot measuring 7.6m wide by 38m long – a fairly standard size for the city. But the long and narrow dimensions together with the proximity of the ABOVE The architrave around the front door is new. It was made to match the original Victorian woodwork in the downstairs rooms 48 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM

HOMES USA IN BRIEF – LOCATION Chicago, USA TYPE OF PROPERTY Remodelled detached cottage BEDROOMS 4 PROJECT STARTED August 2019 PROJECT FINISHED February 2020 SIZE 180sqm PROPERTY COST Around £386,500 BUILD COST Around £1,184 per sqm MAGAZINE.COM / JULY 2022 49

HOMES USA LEFT A pocket door between the living room and dining room is original to the cottage. The Alle table from Hem is teamed with eight Fiber chairs from Muuto RIGHT The solid northern red oak flooring was laid by the house’s previous owners homes on either side made the rooms in the middle Upstairs, the couple wanted to add another bathroom of the cottage gloomy and uninviting. by taking space from one of the bedrooms, but the most significant change was building dormer windows on both In the spring of 2017 Danielle and David, sides of the pitched roof. Doing so would add ceiling who are both 34, moved in and started to get a feel height in the bedrooms and bathrooms while preserving for the place. The kitchen was sandwiched between the historical character of the front façade, but Danielle a staircase at the back of the cottage, which suggested was unsure that planning permission would be granted. the building might have been a boarding house with two entrances at some point, and a breakfast room. In Chicago, every renovation project goes through On the first floor, one of the four bedrooms was planning, known as zoning, and building code windowless and led through to another, while the approval, with a successful application issued a permit only bathroom was small. one to two months later. The ground-floor changes were straightforward and the couple received a permit ‘My plan was to preserve as many of the original in June 2019. With the project effectively split into two spaces as possible, only making significant changes phases, they were able to stay in the house while work got to the newer additions,’ says Danielle. ‘Removing the underway and Danielle pushed for the first-floor permit. rear staircase doubled the size of the kitchen and widening the openings to the ground-floor rooms ‘The building code for new timber-frame houses would make them feel more connected.’ requires them be 1m apart from those on either side 50 JULY 2022 / MAGAZINE.COM