After artist and teacher Michelle Parsons recovered from serious illness, she and her architect husband David decided it was time to seize the day and build the private hideaway they’d always yearned for. Having found a beautiful plot hidden away in an Essex woodland, David devised a sleek, black clad, three bedroom house with a separate artist studio for Michelle. In their drive for privacy however, they also took the radical decision to have no windows on the front of the house, or along one side, so no-one could ever see in. With a modest budget of £230,000, and Michelle and David project managing themselves, their build gets off to a sticky start. After a dangerous gas leak, torrential rain turns the site into a mud bath. Even as the building finally starts to take shape, the big question still remains – without windows on 2 sides, could their new home turn out to be just a gloomy bunker in a glade…?
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Suppliers List
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Architect | David Parsons RIBA (owner) | 07958 264 914 davidparsons22@gmail.com |
Artwork | Michelle Parsons (owner) | 07534 667 376 |
Bathrooms | Duravit, Stark 3 | 01162 510 051 |
Brass splashback (kitchen) | Metal Sheets | 01515 264 777 |
Bricks supplier (including feature wall) | Jewsons | 01483 422 329 |
Bricklayers | Cannon Building Services | 01277 622 688 |
Bookcase design | Mabel Parsons | 07956 965 298 |
Bookcase carpenter | SS7 building contractors Ltd | 07862 219 783 |
Carpentry | BL Loft Solutions | 07967 83 7656 |
Cladding supplier | Bennetts Timber | 01472 35 0151 |
Cladding installer | BL Loft Solutions | 07967 83 7656 |
Corner sofa | Darlings of Chelsea | 01727 864 664 |
Drainage | BL Loft Solutions | 07967 837 656 |
External doors | Dove Doors | 01384 221 144 |
Foundations + piling | ProPiling | 02035 446 687 |
Heating engineer | Assured Heating | 0800 3213 504 |
Kitchen cupboards | IKEA | |
Landscaping | Taylor Civil Engineering Ltd | 07889 499 965 07967 837 656 |
Planting | Drake Trees | 07931 387 298 |
Rooflights | Rooflights and Glazing UK Ltd | 01144 081 000 |
Screed floors | Complete Floor Screeds | 07881 235 019 |
Security CCTV system (camera doorbell) | Ring | 01727 263 045 |
Sedum green roof (living roof) | High-Tech Membrane Roofing ltd | 01268 566 731 |
Steels | Leyton Group | 01268 596 565 |
Tree surgery | Prince Tree Surgery | 01277 229 709 |
Under floor heating | The Under Floor Heating Store | 0800 0778 374 |
Windows (including curtain walling) | Soundcraft | 01959 533 778 |
Wardrobes | SS7 building contractors Ltd | 07862 219 783 |
Wood burning stove supplier | Zigis Fireplaces and Woodburners | 01245 360 772 |
Zinc roofs (studio) | South Coast Metal Roofing Ltd | 01273 563 553 |