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Günter Standl
Design ideas for a small and beige rustic bungalow house exterior in Frankfurt with wood cladding and a pitched roof.
Design ideas for a small and beige rustic bungalow house exterior in Frankfurt with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Design ideas for a small rustic shower room bathroom in Grenoble with beaded cabinets, white cabinets, a walk-in shower, a two-piece toilet, beige tiles, ceramic tiles, beige walls, ceramic flooring, a trough sink, white floors, white worktops, a single sink, a floating vanity unit and exposed beams.

The white splashback and white kitchen furniture allows the stone wall to be the main feature.
Small rustic galley enclosed kitchen in Devon with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets and no island.
Small rustic galley enclosed kitchen in Devon with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets and no island.

This is an example of a small rustic bathroom in Munich with double sinks.

We started out with quite a different plan for this bathroom. Before tiling we needed to re-plaster the walls but when we exposed the beautiful red sandstone behind, it had to stay. The original design had been pure Victorian but the final design combined Victorian with rustic and the result is striking.

Design ideas for a small rustic l-shaped kitchen pantry in Other with a submerged sink, pink cabinets, composite countertops, grey splashback, porcelain splashback, coloured appliances, lino flooring, a breakfast bar and grey worktops.

In Brief
Our client has occupied their mid-19th Century farm house in a small attractive village in Staffordshire for many years. As the family has grown and developed, their lifestyles and living patterns have changed. Although the existing property is particularly generous in terms of size and space, the family circumstances had changed, and they needed extra living space to accommodate older members of their family.
The layout and shape of the farm house’s living accommodation didn’t provide the functional space for everyday modern family life. Their kitchen is located at the far end of the house, and, in fact it is furthest ground floor room away from the garden. This proves challenging for the family during the warmer, sunnier months when they wish to spend more time eating and drinking outdoors. The only access they have to the garden is from a gate at the rear of the property. The quickest way to get there is through the back door which leads onto their rear driveway. The family virtually need to scale the perimeter of the house to access their garden.
The family would also like to comfortably welcome additional older family members to the household. Although their relatives want the security of being within the family hub they also want their own space, privacy and independence from the core of the family.
We were appointed by our client to help them create a design solution that responds to the needs of the family, for now, and into the foreseeable future.
In Context
To the rear of the farmhouse our clients had still retained the red bricked historic bake house and granary barn. The family wanted to maximise the potential of the redundant building by converting it into a separate annex to accommodate their older relatives. They also sought a solution to accessing the back garden from the farmhouse.
Our clients enjoy being in the garden and would like to be able to easily spend more time outside. The barn offers an ideal use of vacant space from which to create additional living accommodation that’s on the ground floor, independent, private, and yet it’s easy to access the hub of the family home.
Our Approach
The client’s home is in a small village in the Staffordshire countryside, within a conservation area. Their attractive mid-19th century red bricked farmhouse occupies a prominent corner position next to the church at the entrance to High Street. Its former farm buildings and yard have been sold for residential conversion and redevelopment but to the rear the farmhouse still retains its historic bake house with granary above.
The barn is a two-storey red brick building with a clay tiled roof and the upper floor can still accessed by an external flight of stone steps. Over the years the bake house has only been used by the family for storage and needed some repairs. The barn's style is a great example which reflects the way that former farming activity was carried out back in the mid-19th Century.
The new living space within the barn solves three problems in one.
The empty barn provides the perfect space for developing extra en-suite, ground floor living accommodation for the family, creating additional flexible space on the first floor of the barn for the family’s hobbies.
The conversion provides a to link the main farmhouse with barn, the garden and the drive way.
It will also give a new lease of life back to the historic barn preserving and enhancing its originality.
Design Approach
Every element of the historical barns restoration was given careful consideration, to sensitively retain and restore the original character.
The property has some significant features of heritage value all lending to its historical character. For example, to the rear of the barn there is an original beehive oven.
Historical Gems
A beehive oven is a type of oven that’s been used since the Middle Ages in Europe. It gets its name from its domed shape, which resembles that of an old-fashioned beehive. The oven is an extremely rare example and is a feature that our team and our clients wanted to restore and incorporate into the new design. The conservation officer was in favour of retaining the beehive oven to preserve it for future studies.
Our clients also have a well in the front garden of the farmhouse. The old well is located exactly under the spot of the proposed new en-suite WC. We liaised with the conservation officer and they were happy for the well to be covered rather than preserved within the design. We discussed the possibility of making a feature of the well within the barn to our clients and made clear that highlighting the well would be costly in both time and money. The family had a budget and timescale to follow and they decided against incorporating the well within the new design. We ensured that the redundant well was properly assessed, before it could be infilled and capped with a reinforced concrete slab.
Another aspect of the barn that we were all keen to preserve were the external granary steps and door. They are part of the building’s significance and character; their loss would weaken the character and heritage of the old granary barn. We ensured that the steps and door should be retained and repaired within the new design. It was imperative for clients and our team to retain the historical features that form the character and history of the building. The external stone steps and granary door complement the original design indicating the buildings former working purpose within the 19th Century farm complex.
An experienced structural specialist was appointed to produce a structural report, to ensure all aspects of the building were sound prior to planning. Our team worked closely with the conservation officer to ensure that the project remained sensitive and sympathetic to the locality of the site and the existing buildings.
Access Problems Solved
Despite being in a Conservation Area, the conservation officer and the planners were happy with a seamless contemporary glazed link from the main farm to the granary barn. The new glazed link, not only brings a significant amount of light into the interior of the farmhouse, but also granary barn, creating an open and fluid area within the home, rather than it just being a corridor.
The glazed hallway provides the family with direct access from the main farmhouse to the granary barn, and it opens outdirectly onto their garden space. The link to the barn changes the way that the family currently live for the better, creating flexibility in terms of direct access to the outside space and to the granary barn.
Working Together
We worked closely with the conservation officer to ensure that our initial design for the planned scheme was befitting of its place in the Conservation Area (and suited to a historic structure). It was our intention to create a modern and refreshing space which complements the original building.
A close collaboration between the client, the conservation officer, the planners and our team has enabled us the deliver a design that retains as much of the working aesthetic of the buildings as possible. Local planners were keen to see the building converted to residential use to save it from disrepair, allowing the chance to create a unique home with significant original features, such as the beehive oven, the stone steps and the granary doors.
We have sensitively and respectfully designed the barn incorporating new architecture with a sense of the old history from the existing buildings. This allows the current work to be interpreted as an additional thread to the historical context of the buildings, without affecting their character.
The former barn has been sympathetically transformed inside and out, corresponding well with the historical significance of the immediate farm site and the local area. We’ve created a new sleek, contemporary glazed link for the family to the outside of their house, whilst developing additional living space that retains the historical core, ethos and detail of the building. In addition, the clients can also now take advantage of the unrivaled views of the church opposite, from the upper floor of the historic barn.
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Rivestimenti e serramenti in legno di larice naturale. Manto di copertura in scandole di legno, lattoneria in alluminio nero. Pavimentazione esterna in piastre di porfido "incertum". Foto: Daniele Rodorigo

Redecoración de dormitorio con toque de color granate en pared de cabezal y reparación de carpintería de madera original con molduras.
Inspiration for a small rustic master bedroom in Barcelona with purple walls, laminate floors, no fireplace and beige floors.
Inspiration for a small rustic master bedroom in Barcelona with purple walls, laminate floors, no fireplace and beige floors.

Auch kleine Wege können sehr schön arrangiert werden. Mit länglichen Platten oder auch runden Elementen, den sogenannten Baumscheiben
Design ideas for a small rustic garden in Bremen.
Design ideas for a small rustic garden in Bremen.

Très belle réalisation d'une Tiny House sur Lacanau, fait par l’entreprise Ideal Tiny.
A la demande du client, le logement a été aménagé avec plusieurs filets LoftNets afin de rentabiliser l’espace, sécuriser l’étage et créer un espace de relaxation suspendu permettant de converser un maximum de luminosité dans la pièce.
Références : Deux filets d'habitation noirs en mailles tressées 15 mm pour la mezzanine et le garde-corps à l’étage et un filet d'habitation beige en mailles tressées 45 mm pour la terrasse extérieure.

Façade nord, rénovation de la façade en tavaillon de bois, création de fenêtres.
This is an example of a small and brown rustic two floor detached house in Lyon with wood cladding and a pitched roof.
This is an example of a small and brown rustic two floor detached house in Lyon with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

José Martínez
Small rustic foyer in Other with a stable front door, a medium wood front door, white walls, terracotta flooring and red floors.
Small rustic foyer in Other with a stable front door, a medium wood front door, white walls, terracotta flooring and red floors.

Nulla Vale is a small dwelling and shed located on a large former grazing site. The structure anticipates a more permanent home to be built at some stage in the future. Early settler homes and rural shed types are referenced in the design.
The Shed and House are identical in their overall dimensions and from a distance, their silhouette is the familiar gable ended form commonly associated with farming sheds. Up close, however, the two structures are clearly defined as shed and house through the material, void, and volume. The shed was custom designed by us directly with a shed fabrication company using their systems to create a shed that is part storage part entryways. Clad entirely in heritage grade corrugated galvanized iron with a roof oriented and pitched to maximize solar exposure through the seasons.
The House is constructed from salvaged bricks and corrugated iron in addition to rough sawn timber and new galvanized roofing on pre-engineered timber trusses that are left exposed both inside and out. Materials were selected to meet the clients’ brief that house fit within the cognitive idea of an ‘old shed’. Internally the finishes are the same as outside, no plasterboard and no paint. LED lighting strips concealed on top of the rafters reflect light off the foil-backed insulation. The house provides the means to eat, sleep and wash in a space that is part of the experience of being on the site and not removed from it.

Salle de bain et WC
Une porte à galandage a été installé afin de ne pas perdre de place dans le couloir et dans cette pièce d'eau.
Quelques rangements pour que chacun trouve sa place.

Inspiration for a small and yellow rustic bungalow render detached house in Other with a mansard roof, a tiled roof, a brown roof and shingles.

modo architects
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Inspiration for a small rustic two floor detached house in Other with stone cladding and a tiled roof.
Inspiration for a small rustic two floor detached house in Other with stone cladding and a tiled roof.

Rustic contemporary stone villa surrounded by the natural landscape of the Italian countryside, where traditional architecture, authentic materials and landscaped gardens blend in perfect harmony. Natural stone facades, classic shutters and carefully curated greenery enhance the timeless elegance of the residence, creating a refined atmosphere inspired by luxury Tuscan country homes reinterpreted with a contemporary design approach.

Featurs our Nordlux Nexus wall light, in a grey finish. Fantastic for late night reading.
This is an example of a small rustic guest bedroom in Other with grey walls.
This is an example of a small rustic guest bedroom in Other with grey walls.
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