Tudor at Longwood
Building the Tudor house was a thoughtful process that combined timeless tradition with creative purpose.
Designed to Suit
Designed as a homestead for a family devoted to artistic pursuits, the home’s layout drew inspiration from Gustav Stickley’s principles of simplicity and functionality, seamlessly blended with classic Tudor architectural features. The half-timbered porch is infilled with hemp-lime and natural lime rendering.
Form and Function
The exterior showcases steep gables, half-timbering, and masonry, while the interior balances Stickley’s open, flowing spaces with rich woodwork, leaded glass, and cozy, defined nooks. The interior wood was finished with custom-pigmented oils to highlight the wood’s depth without muddying the colour. The result was an appropriate fusion of English and American Arts & Crafts principles.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The result is a home that supports both family life and artistic development, rooted in tradition yet perfectly suited to modern creativity.
Wax, Pigment, Milk, Lime
The surfaces in this bathroom were given a living texture and sheen by using earth pigments to create our own colours, milk paint for a close to the wood finish and then limewash for a velvety texture on the walls and beeswax for a subtly sheen on woodwork. Perfect textures to offset the glossy tile.
Symbiotic Design
We design gardens and the house simultaneously, allowing each to inform the other, creating a harmonious relationship between architecture and landscape that enhances the beauty and functionality of both. Inside to outside and outside to inside.
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