Selfbuilder & Homemaker – July – August 2019

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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