A 1930s coastal villa reduced to its essential volumes, where limestone, lime plaster and oak are allowed to hold the changing light of the North Sea.
The brief was simple: a house for a family to return to, season after season. We removed the partitions added over nine decades and restored the original sequence of rooms, then worked on the thresholds between them — the depth of a reveal, the weight of a door, the moment a corridor opens to the garden.
A single material palette runs throughout. Honed limestone floors continue from the entrance to the terrace; walls are finished in a hand-applied lime plaster that shifts from warm grey to white through the day. Joinery is solid oak, oiled and left to age.
Nothing is decorative for its own sake. Light is treated as the primary material, and shadow as its necessary companion.
