Refurbishment and Restore Issue 17 2019 | Page 6

The Cottage The Cottage is the culmination of over 5 years work by Guy Hollaway Architects’ Principal Partner to realise his own family home. Based on a lifetime of experience, the house features a collection of spaces that transform an 18th Century Cottage into a 21st Century family home. Set within the Kentish countryside this is a house of two sides, a quintessential cottage to the front and an uncompromising kitchen, dining, living space to the rear. 6 - www.refurbandrestore.co.uk By Guy Hollaway Before the retrofit the Cottage was already a picture of Kentish Charm, however, by modern standards it did not suit the aspirations of today’s living. The project’s aim sought to fully renovate and adapt a non-listed cottage to bring it into the modern era and extend the life well into the next millennium - a juxtaposition of old and new was deliberately captured and a harmony between the two was fastidiously worked on. A key concept behind the functionality of the living space was to challenge conventional thresholds between internal and external. In contrast to the front of the house, the rear glazed façade slides to merge with the external living and pool area, resulting in a fusion of internal and external environments to become one larger, coexisting space.