We designed a screen wall facing the garden with full width, double sliding windows and a long Douglas Fir roof light that drops honeyed light from above, even on a cloudy day. The garden is replenished by planting a small meadow on the flat roof of the extension, now colonised by indigenous, wind-borne flora and fauna, providing a great view from the first floor bathroom. Energy costs were reduced with a high efficiency boiler, under-floor water heating and high performance double glazing.

The space is also home to an idiosyncratic art collection, providing not picture rails but sufficient sockets for the clients’ assembly of over twenty working telephones, which ring simultaneously with an incoming call. We’re still in conversation with the client, most recently installing acoustic panels.