A combination of a controlled range of natural materials and a palette of understated colours integrate the new work with the old and the interior with the garden.
The key materials used are Brazilian slate flooring, Western red cedar for the decking and fence panels, American oak doors, Zodiaq crushed quartz kitchen worktops, and self-rusting exterior steel cladding panels. A sliding fully glazed door 2.9 metres in length retracts into the panelled wall to enable the entire flank of the new dining room to be opened out to the new lower terrace.