This beautiful cottage is one of a kind. Small but perfectly proportioned, it’s one you can’t help falling in love with.

I was lucky enough to project manage this development, working with David Thomas, an inspiring architect, a talented local developer, Derrick Williams, and the owner who’s a champion of great design and a stickler for detail.

The cottage had a poorly constructed rear extension that housed the kitchen, utility room and bathroom. It had deteriorated over the decades and got to a point where the only viable option was to tear down and rebuild, which is what we did. We also took the opportunity to renovate the rest of the property at the same time.

It was a challenging project mainly due to poor access and a very wet clay and sand subsoil. This made getting the foundations in place difficult, but once we were over this hurdle the rest of the project ran smoothly.

We built an amazing spacious kitchen extension with beautiful big windows and doors overlooking the garden. We put in underfloor heating and a polished concrete floor fusing modern with the traditional elements of this quaint stone cottage. It worked so well. We custom made ‘V’ groove boards to clad the bathroom and put in a unique kitchen from DEVOL.

The exterior was clad in black corrugated aluminium sheets and the area immediately outside the French doors was paved and clad in redwood to create an outdoor dining area and a better pathway along the side of the cottage.

The result is a wonderful space that’s beautifully designed, cosy, spacious and very practical. We love this project.