New family home at Waterfall Meadows
Our clients, Steven and Dorothy, requested the design of a detached family home, to a serviced plot within a small bespoke development site.
The Mill House, a red sandstone, country house built circa 1903, is located to the main gated entrance of the development; retaining original low level cill sash and case timber windows, feature bay windows, pitched natural slate roof, ogee cast iron guttering and grand main entrance, elements which set a precedence to our own design.
Initial sketch design were presented to our clients along with a photo montage of the Mill House and surrounding grounds. This set a base from which to work through the floor plans to provided adequate internal room space and the seem-less links between formal public rooms and the family private spaces.
We engaged the Planning Department early in the design process to negotiate the reasoning behind our scheme design and massing, which proved to be a very productive process, working as a team to reach the best outcome for our clients, reaching a positive conclusion with no delays during the formal Planning process.
We spent time to discuss the positive elements and areas of concern of their own current home, to ensure these were not repeated to the new structure. For example, the internal link from the garage/workshop to the main dwelling house, which we provided as an attractive glazing link corridor, without the necessity of walking through the laundry and services rooms. Highly advantageous, with the prospects of our changeable Scottish weather.
The internal ground and first floor layouts provide a light and bright atmosphere, by way of the use of extra width corridors, low level cills to windows, large glazed apertures to frame the undisturbed views across neighbouring land and curved walls to enhance the direction of natural light.
TESTIMONIAL
From the minute we met Lorraine, we were confident she would go above and beyond to design the house we had envisaged. The end result is a fabulous family home that we are delighted with.
Steven and Dorothy