A home for a couple that is learning to do less. Our clients, a couple with one foot in retirement, contacted us, explaining that they had spent two years hunting for the ideal down-size home but had never found one that entirely met their requirements. They stated that the home they had come to buy was nearly complete, but limited living spaces and a lack of connection to the garden needed to be fixed.
They requested that we surround and insert as much vegetation as possible. We really wanted to bring the outside in and buttress a little footprint with borrowed space from outside, which is a technique we frequently apply in the studio. The addition is respectful of the historic cottage at...