A Welcome Home
Your bespoke home service
Many of us long to live in elegant, open, light and warm spaces that make us happy and welcome us home at the end of the day. There is great joy in having a home which meets our needs and aspirations for living, relaxing and entertaining. Homes that thrill and excite us, or make us feel comfortable and relaxed. Spaces that speak of our own personality and style.
If you would like to improve your home, to add an extension, remodel or even create a whole new house and garden, we can offer a fully bespoke service and help you achieve your dream home.
Why choose Bottle Kiln Design?
Creating Connections
The inside outside relationship
We are particularly interested in designing across the boundaries of architecture and garden design. Our most interesting and rewarding schemes are often those where the design of house and garden, and their relationship to each other, are considered as a whole.
The Whole Process
From start to finish
We can offer a complete service from design, liaising with planners, building and electrical works, right through to the finishing touches.
Unique and individual
Designed for you
The most important thing to us is to design and build something beautiful and enduring for you. Finding the best way to approach this is key to achieving the best result within your budget.
Style and Context
Thoughtful materials
Our schemes can involve both the bold and dramatic use of contemporary materials, or the use of local, natural or reclaimed materials depending upon your chosen style or context. We particularly like working in a conservation context where a sympathetic approach to the melding of the old and new is required.
Craftsmanship and Creativity
Build quality
What gives us the most pleasure is working with our customers to design and construct things of real craftsmanship and beauty. Things that we are proud to have made, and which we know will give you enjoyment for many years to come.
The “WOW” Factor
Extensions and remodeling
Most of us achieve our dream home over a period of time through extending and altering our properties. In deciding what changes to make, context is often the key.
Period properties and modern homes
If your property already has a strong architectural identity, or belongs within an historical or conservation setting, there may be limitations on materials and approach. It is sometimes a challenge, but always a joy, to work on such projects to create something often adventurous and innovative whilst retaining a close connection to the context.
For many of us, though, our properties have no strong sense of identity in themselves. Altering or extending them is an opportunity to add drama, and even some ‘wow’, to lift the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Design And Build
A brand new home and garden
The majority of our work involves extending living spaces and, in particular, integrating indoor and outdoor areas. We also work with clients who make the bold decision to start from scratch. We help them design and build a completely new house to suit their own requirements.
Dream it
Here we often start by sketching out several quite different styles and ideas—from the striking and contemporary to the traditional. In this way, we uncover what excites the client. Scrapbooks and idea-boards often prove a useful resource where the client has spent time gathering images that interest and excite them in preparation for this journey.
Build it
Bottle Kiln Design’s approach is somewhat unusual in that we have always specialised in the design and construction of house and garden together, rather than their being done by separate professionals without relation to each other. It is always a joy to help people go through the process, and to help them realise their dream.
Our Work
Image gallery
View some of our previous work in the gallery below
Some of our latest work
We were asked to design and build a contemporary extension to the back of this village house to enable a contemporary kitchen/living/dining area to be made with good views into the courtyard garden.
This substantial stone built bungalow, which was constructed in the 1960s, was in need of a thorough update and refurbishment.
This scheme required the conversion of a 1960s yellow brick house set in a beautiful village into a modern country cottage full of features and charm outside with large vaulted ceilings inside.
