Private House

Garden Residence

A house opened to its garden — a formal dining room with French doors, a family room joined through a wide cased opening, and a travertine bath in dark walnut.

4 photographs

Unlike the apartments, this is a house, and the work is about the connection between the rooms and the ground outside them. The family room was joined to the dining room through a wide cased opening rather than a doorway, so the two read as one space when the doors are back.

The formal dining room takes its light from full-height French doors onto the garden, with tall panelled cupboards built into the flanking walls and the chimneypiece kept on the cross axis.

Scope of work

  • Wide cased opening between family and dining rooms
  • Full-height French doors to the garden
  • Built-in panelled cupboards
  • Travertine bath with walnut casings
  • Walk-in shower and deep tub
  • Herringbone gallery flooring
  • Glazed vitrine cabinetry

The photographs

Garden Residence — The family room, joined to the dining room beyond through a wide cased opening with the beam carried across
The family room, joined to the dining room beyond through a wide cased opening with the beam carried across.
Garden Residence — Formal dining room
Formal dining room — French doors to the garden on one side, tall panelled cupboards built into the flanking walls, chimneypiece on the cross axis.
Garden Residence — Bath in travertine with dark walnut casings to the doors and mirror, a walk-in shower at the end of the run
Bath in travertine with dark walnut casings to the doors and mirror, a walk-in shower at the end of the run.
Garden Residence — The gallery in herringbone, looking through to the dining room and its glazed vitrine cabinetry
The gallery in herringbone, looking through to the dining room and its glazed vitrine cabinetry.

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