Selfbuilder & Homemaker – July – August 2019

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ground floor, which is home to a family/games
room (with the unusual addition of a climbing
wall), and the six bedrooms. A large hallway and
the utility room both feature wonderfully
weathered looking Indian sandstone floors. “We
had to use exterior grade paving in order to get
the worn look,” he explains. “There is method in
our madness though – with the amount of sand
that a beach house has to tolerate, carpet,
timber or ceramic tiles just wouldn’t have lasted,
so paving was the sensible choice.” Although
the slabs are thick, being designed for external
use, Jeff was still determined to have underfloor
heating.
The utility room leads out to a landscaped rear
garden with patio, lawn and outdoor shower –
and wetsuit drying area for après surf. At the
front of the house a large well-lit garage offers
extra space (perfect for the table tennis table
installed), and includes a private storage area for
the family.
Even on the ground floor, careful design
means bedrooms are not excluded from the
view. A master suite opens on to a large sun
terrace, while four of the remaining bedrooms


offer views of either Crantock Beach or The
Gannel river. “If we were designing the house to
live in permanently, the bedrooms would have
been bigger, and there would be fewer of
them,” he says. But a flexible design has allowed
some room for realignment; there are corridors
between rooms where doors can easily be
added to create bedroom suites. The couple
eschewed installing solar panels due to
expected heavy maintenance, caused by the
property’s exposure to severe weather. 
Designing Egret View’s interiors was Wendy’s
domain – her shopping list for her family’s
holiday home included some unusual items,
most notably a small sailing boat which ‘floats’
on the polished wooden floors and delineates
the grown-up living room from the snug (which
houses an L-shaped sofa that can seat the four
children, and a 55 inch TV) on the first floor open
plan living space. “I always wanted a boat,” says
Wendy. “I thought we could sit in it and read.”
The original design for the open plan living
space was to wall off the snug area. But in the
end the family decided the boat would create a
natural barrier. It features its own light on the top

CONTACTS/


SUPPLIERS


ARCHITECT
Artchart
artchart.co.uk

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Marnick Builders
http://www.marnick.co.uk

M&E SUB-CONTRACTOR
Trident Plumbing &
Heating Services
http://www.tridentplumbingand
heating.co.uk

LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
Selma Klophaus
http://www.selmaklophaus.com

WINDOWS
Levick & Jenkin
http://www.levickandjenkin.co.uk

STAIRCASE
Marnick Joinery
http://www.marnick.co.uk

KITCHEN
Rooms Kitchens
http://www.roomskitchens.co.uk

BATHROOMS
Ideal Standard, Grohe,
Topps Tiles
http://www.ideal-standard.co.uk
http://www.grohe.co.uk/en_gb
http://www.toppstiles.co.uk

UNIQUE DESIGN
The high tech kitchen has a
unique tiled splashback created
from a box of mismatched
patterned tiles

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