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Alison and Keith Duddy have commissioned a Japanese-inspired lavatory in their early Tudor residence – and a dual styles work perfectly.
Fact file
The owners: Alison Duddy, a play teacher, and her father Keith, who is a TV producer, live here with their 3 daughters, Georgia, 17, Harriet, 15, and Charlie, 10
The property: A five-bedroom nation residence dating from a 15th century
The location: Great Malvern, Herefordshire
What they spent: The integrate spent around £14,000 on their lavatory project
When we changed into a 15th-century timber-framed house, it was dim and scary and looked zero like a pleasing building it is today,’ Alison explains. ‘In fact, a whole north side of a residence was uninhabitable and resembled some-more of a derelict bombard than a home.’
Not surprisingly, that partial of a skill was in critical need of repair. After years of spoil that had led to dry rot, a joist structure of a Tudor residence was underneath hazard and in risk of collapse.
‘The categorical reason we had bought a residence was since it came with a stable of 6,000 sq ft, that Keith envisaged regulating as a bottom for regulating his TV prolongation company,’ says Alison.
The integrate and their daughters changed into a habitable south side of a residence while they set about rescuing a north side.
‘We didn’t have an en apartment bathroom, so partial of a skeleton for a north side concerned branch a second building loft space into a master bedroom with a sauce room, en apartment and gym,’ says Alison.
Alison and Keith enlisted a assistance of bespoke joinery and ash building specialists Lester Hartmann of Hartmanns of Malvern to project-manage a build.
Work began with replacing a roof and all a decaying joist with new ash from a Duchy of Cornwall’s estates in Hay-on-Wye. To reconstruct a north section, a whole ash support was carried by 23cm as it had collapsed. Much of it was rebuilt regulating complicated materials; a newly-built walls were orange plastered, a residence was rewired and new floors were laid with kiln-dried English ash to move regard into a space.
After a once-derelict bombard of a building was restored, a couple’s builders were means to position a assign walls to emanate a new master suite’s layout.
Alison and Keith energetically incited their courtesy to a new lavatory design, as Alison explains: ‘Keith had been desirous by a wooden-style bathrooms he‘d seen in Japan while on a business trip.’
The devise was to make a focal indicate of a Japanese-style bath, with a skylight commissioned directly above to inundate a space with light. The integrate chose a steel bath with a white finish finish, though they indispensable to strengthen a building in sequence to take a weight, so a bath was commissioned on an ash height to assistance disguise a RSJ support underneath it.
Lester Hartmann finished a walk-in showering enclosing from teak to continue a Japanese-style theme, backing a walls with teak and adding a teak showering tray and potion screen. The teak was hermetic with an oil treatment, that will final for a integrate of years before it will need to be renewed.
Lester also finished a walnut self-centredness section for a double basins, a approximate for a bath and a slimline storage sideboard beside a showering enclosing for bathrobes, towels and toiletries.
‘Given a vast scale of a replacement project, a build went comparatively uniformly – detached from when one of a builders fell true by a bedroom building onto a subsequent level,’ says Alison. ‘Fortunately he wasn’t harm in a fall.’
‘Now that a master en apartment is finished we positively adore it,’ says Alison. ‘Lester has finished a smashing pursuit – a bath is such a lush knowledge and a white ceramic basins contrariety ideally with a darker wood. we don’t find this residence remotely creepy now.’
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Featured in a Oct 2011 emanate of Real Homes
