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Simply
luxurious
Attention to detail and a pared-back aesthetic
IN BRIEF
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NAMES Jon Doughty and Kay Surman
AGES Both mid-40s
LOCATION Berkshire
defined the renovation of this striking 1970s property TYPE OF PROPERTY
Detached 1970s house
WORDS JULIET BENNING PHOTOGR APHY JONATHAN GOOCH
BEDROOMS 5
BATHROOMS 3, plus a cloakroom
PROJECT STARTED October 2015
PROJEC T FINISHED August 2018
SIZE 450sqm, plus 150sqm garage
BUILD COST £800,000
F L O O R PL A N S
GALLERY BEDROOM
MASTER
BEDROOM
BATHROOM
EN SUITE
FIRST FLOOR
OUTDOOR
LIVING AREA KITCHEN
DINING AREA
KITCHEN LIBRARY
LIBRARY/ KITCHEN
STUDY
ATRIUM
PANTRY
UTILITY
The house’s
orientation along the
River Thames, its big
garden and the
location, 20 miles
from London, made
it irresistible
ABOVE Continuing side wall and the back wall, turning the new L-shaped Both Jon and Kay, who designs toys for Disney, are
the ceiling’s cedar space into a roomy kitchen, dining and living area. When fans of mid-century modern design and have drawn on
cladding to the
overhang further blurs the glass sliding doors are pushed back, most of the ground style details of the period for their new home, including
the boundary between floor is open to the garden. the contrasting cladding and long overhangs outside. Jon’s
inside and out An upstairs living room has become the couple’s attention to detail with materials has been a key component
bedroom and bathroom. And the spiral staircase that in the success of the renovation. Among his best finds were
had descended through the floor has been removed, the slim-profile sliding doors by Ultraline, three of which
with steel-framed windows put in to provide wraparound can be stacked together enabling the living area to connect
views of the garden and river. A new roof was also built, with the garden. Pocket doors on the corners of the
which overhangs above the main bedroom window so extension slide into the walls to emphasise the overhangs.
that the roof terrace the couple had planned, but decided The cladding on the lower exterior walls was another
against, can still be retrofitted. triumph. It is made of a fireproof fibre cement sheet
S U PPL I E R S
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PROJECT TEAM worcester-bosch.co.uk); installed by Climate Solutions Home automation Loxone (0118 313 0140; loxone.com)
Design and build Remagination (remagination.co.uk) (01753 833 144; climatesolutions.co.uk) Staircase The Solid Wood Flooring Company
Structural engineering and build consultancy Polished concrete flooring and underfloor heating (01666 504 015; thesolidwoodflooringcompany.com)
Finelines (01270 663 802; finelinespdpm.com) Midland Flooring (01675 465 110; midlandflooring.biz)
FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES
FIXTURES & FITTINGS Dining-room wall mural Ellie Cashman Design
STRUCTURE Bespoke kitchen design and build (+31 85 489 7020; elliecashmandesign.com)
Windows Ultraline (0121 550 3066; ultraline.co.uk) Remagination (remagination.co.uk) Atrium lighting Tom Dixon
Fibre cement cladding Viroc (020 8963 9999; viroc.pt) Bathrooms Mira (0800 001 4040; mirashowers.co.uk), (0330 3630 030; tomdixon.net)
Decking Sneek Timber (01206 868 397; sneektimber.co.uk) Boffe (01892 822 737; boffe.co.uk), Steinberg (+49 211 520 Furniture G Plan (01225 700 880; gplan.co.uk),
Steel AGP Steel (020 3162 7777; agpsteel.com) 2490; steinberg-armaturen.de), Duravit (duravit.co.uk), Vitra (020 7608 6200; vitra.com), Contempi (+43 5522
Heating Worcester Bosch (0330 123 9559; Lusso Stone (020 3370 4057; lussostone.com) 32769; contempi.at), Matthew Hilton (matthewhilton.com)