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The main bedroom at dusk. A vaulted ceiling of dark oak boards between black steel rafters rises to the ridge. Ahead, the bare limestone gable fills the end of the room from floor to peak, lit warm from small floor uplights. On the left, a low dark platform bed with dark linen and a pale wool throw, its headboard against a charcoal plastered wall, with a linen-shaded lamp on each side. A large cream wool rug on dark smoked oak boards. On the right, a long band of glass from floor to eaves looks west over trees and a wide valley under an orange sky, with a glass balustrade outside at the corner. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the whole triangle of the gable shows from wall to wall, as if the bedroom took the full width of the house. The drawings put the bathroom against the drive-side half of the gable, opening off the bedroom, with the dressing room beside it. The two narrow rooflights in the west slope are not shown.

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Main bedroom suite

A very dark room vaulted to the ridge, with the bare limestone gable lit from below, a low bed facing west, and a stone bathroom against the gable.

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Main bedroom suite

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The notes

rendered

The main suite is 110 m², over the cinema at the stone end: the bedroom, the bathroom, and the dressing room that doubles as the safe room.

room

The bedroom is vaulted right up to the ridge, about 8 m at the peak, with exposed black steel rafters and dark oak boards between. The limestone gable is left bare inside and rises the full height. It is the one pale surface in the room, lit from below at night.

bed

A low bed with its headboard on the inner wall, facing straight out west through the glass, so you wake to the long view. The balcony door is in the south-west corner. Two narrow rooflights sit high in the west slope near the ridge, with blackout blinds, for daylight on dull days.

finishes

Very dark: charcoal lime plaster, dark smoked oak floor, dark linen and wool. Low warm light only.

bathroom

18 m² against the stone gable. A freestanding dark bath sits under a tall slot window in the limestone. There is a stone-lined walk-in shower in the corner, twin basins in a stone vanity, and the WC in its own small room.

Two rooflights in the east slope bring morning sun into the bathroom. None go over the dressing room, because it doubles as the safe room.

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The main bedroom at dusk. A vaulted ceiling of dark oak boards between black steel rafters rises to the ridge. Ahead, the bare limestone gable fills the end of the room from floor to peak, lit warm from small floor uplights. On the left, a low dark platform bed with dark linen and a pale wool throw, its headboard against a charcoal plastered wall, with a linen-shaded lamp on each side. A large cream wool rug on dark smoked oak boards. On the right, a long band of glass from floor to eaves looks west over trees and a wide valley under an orange sky, with a glass balustrade outside at the corner. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the whole triangle of the gable shows from wall to wall, as if the bedroom took the full width of the house. The drawings put the bathroom against the drive-side half of the gable, opening off the bedroom, with the dressing room beside it. The two narrow rooflights in the west slope are not shown.
01 · The main bedroom at dusk