Illustrators Botanical House
Scandinavian, West Midlands
The project is a complete refurbishment, internal renovation, and rear extension to a post-war semi-detached house in Moseley, Birmingham. The palette of materials was kept light and bright with warming timbers, to reflect the mature garden outlook.
We designed the kitchen and internal joinery, as well as the interiors, to include bespoke honed concrete worktops, white formica plywood, and natural oak finishes.
As an extension the garden room is clad in vertical batten cedar as a veil like treatment to the exterior, and the interior uses reclaimed honed terracotta hexagon tiles, with underfloor heating throughout. We set out a bright luscious green to half the wall line in this space, to offset the kitchen line of green banded of gloss tiles to the splashback. This approach of green highlights within the house, is also used in the main bathroom of aqua-marine tiles, and generally with the inclusion of alternative plants internally and externally.
The previous timber framed glazing and Bay Area has been replaced with black crittal style aluminium windows, which ties in with the black anodised metal pendants used throughout, as key hanging elements within the space.
Shape of garden room