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| A Selection of Our Recent Projects |
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The projects featured below
were completed over the period summer 2005 to summer 2008. There is
one new-build project in this group, |
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| Calder Road, Craigentinny Avenue and Roull Road, Edinburgh |
| These projects are similar in
content, being house extensions which are particularly intended to
match externally the respective existing houses, both in form and use of finishing materials. The "before", "during", and "after" states of each are well covered by the illustrations. |
| Calder Road |
| Craigentinny Avenue |
| Roull Road |
| Sunroom Extension, Charlestown, Fife |
| Our clients required
additional living space and were contemplating the options of either an
extension or the installation of a large conservatory to the front of their house. During the period of evaluation Harris & Johnston was in the midst of a fairly complicated (difficult to photograph) extension for their daughter at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh. A very efficient, tidy, performance by the builder on the Craiglockhart contract demonstrated that an extension project could be achieved by using the same team at Charlestown, without too much upheaval and stress. We were therefore commissioned to design a Sunroom Extension to provide extended living space with links to the existing living area and kitchen. As with the projects illustrated above, the building materials were chosen to match the existing. This is particularly successful due to excellent execution of facing-brick walls to the extension, which has been carried into the garden featuring brick-built raised flower beds as part of the general landscaping. |
| Sunroom, Old Kirk Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh |
| Having been involved in
providing a two-storey "matching" side extension to this property in 2001,
we were approached by our clients to carry out one further project - a Sunroom on the south-facing rear elevation of their house. Completed in 2006 this project features substantial glazing on two walls, with a sloping slated roof, incorporating roof windows. In our current experience, initial discussions with potential clients indicate that this is the general concept of a successful sunroom, Changes to the Buildings Standards in 2007 in some cases would now reduce the area of permitted glazing, however successful results might still be achieved by imaginative interpretation of the relevant regulations. |
| Leadburn, Midlothian |
| This new house replaces the
nineteenth century farmhouse at Gray Brae Farm. Our clients had a
fairly fixed idea of the character their house should achieve, which is essentially traditional in form and materials, having pitched slated roofs, painted roughcast wall finishes, and artificial stone quoins at openings. We were commissioned to take their ideas along the design process, with design and technical input from ourselves, through to the finished farmhouse. The house sits well in its site. When proposed landscaping and paving works are complete, it will be fully in harmony with its rural surroundings. |