Best Residential Extension Award, West Midlands by Jeremy Lim

Best residential extension

Very pleased to share that a project in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, has recently been awarded ‘Best Residential Extension’ in the region by the LABC. This award is recognition of the high quality of the project in terms of design and the build process on site whilst working alongside Warwick District Council Building Control.

I firmly believe that one of the best ways to see more good work is to praise building excellence and publicly acknowledge companies, designers, site managers and trades people who go the extra mile because of the pride they have in their work.

Lorna Stimpson, LABC

Extension to a Victorian house in Warwickshire

The elegant extension provides the client with a new family space which connects to the garden whilst being flooded with natural daylight.

Traditionally, the functional spaces of kitchen, utility and cloakroom are arranged at the rear of Victorian terraced properties.  This effectively isolates living spaces from the garden which is a considerable asset to be considered and realised as part of the transformation.

For this project, these functional spaces were carefully re-planned to the center of dwelling, positioning them in the darker core of the house, whilst being more accessible to the front entrance.  

The result was an elegant extension providing the client with a new family space seamlessly connecting to the garden whilst being flooded with natural daylight.

As part of the initial design process and to help bring the preliminary concept design to life, a simple visualisation described the proposal more clearly than the two dimensional drawings.

From here we were able to refine the design into the final proposal. 

Working carefully with the structural engineer we coordinated the design drawings so that once work started, the build progressed as seamlessly as possible producing what we think is a fantastic final result.


Contemporary extension in Warwickshire

Ideal Home March 2018 by Jeremy Lim

I was asked to contribute some thoughts regarding redesigning and working with bungalows for the Ideal Home magazine March 2018 issue.  Bungalows offer some unique opportunities and hopefully I picked up some of the key points to think about when working with this type of home.

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Ongoing work to House of the Year 1959 by Jeremy Lim

Work is nearing completion on Woman's Journal, 'House of the Year 1959'.  The house has been substantially extended and re-configured to provide the client with a beautiful modern home.  Originally a cutting edge home of its time, the house was outdated for modern family needs.  The new home has a light filled central atrium space around which the living spaces are arranged with a large family kitchen/dining space extending out into the private rear garden.

The new design incorporates a number of modern technologies including: photovoltaic panels, intelligent lighting controls and under floor heating linked to a new energy efficient boiler. 

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Seven months build in 90 seconds by Jeremy Lim

To record the build process, for seven months we set up a time lapse camera in the back garden of one of our residential projects. It successfully shows the transformation from the original house to a contemporary family home. Photos were taken every 15 minutes during the day and then put together to make a movie of the process. To provide the short video we used more than 2,500 images.

It was a relatively straight forward process but occasional direct sunlight into the camera and condensation in certain conditions created a few issues. The battery ran out a couple of times so you can see the sudden jump in the movie - it wasn't the builder suddenly having a spurt of energy!

A Place to Live by Jeremy Lim

Work featured in Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s Manifesto for the Modern Home, by Charlotte Abrahams

A Place to Live is a call to arms for the design and culturally savvy consumer looking for ideas, advice and practical tips on how to create a home that is cool and contemporary, economically and environmentally sustainable and part of its community. It not only brings you architecture and interiors to marvel at, but also an insight into a world where dwellings are wrapped up by great play spaces, home zones, green spaces, community allotments and recycling schemes, community shops, community gyms and community transport. Where homes are adaptable from cradle to grave and where houses tread lightly in their environment.
Our homes and the communities in which we live have a significant influence on our life chances, our well being and our happiness. It is time for us all to demand more.
It is hoped A Place to Live becomes both a source book and a manifesto that inspires a wider creative insurgency resulting in homes that serve us all better.

Click here for a preview of what could be one of the most relevant and thought-provoking books of the year. (Could be because A Place to Live is currently in need of a publisher….)

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St Petersburg Marina by Jeremy Lim

A concept design for a new world class marina and gateway to St Petersburg; each building was conceived to be iconic in its own right. Designs were inspired by water, waves and sealife.