Private House, North Devon
- Client: Private
- Project Value: £1.9m
- Duration: 2 years
- Location: North Devon coast
- Client: Private
- Project Value: £1.9m
- Duration: 2 years
- Location: North Devon coast
Overview
Ease is really proud to have been involved at the forefront of delivering this new sensational home in North Devon, with its uninterrupted views along the full length of one of the finest beaches in the country. Initially unimposing, in a commanding hard to reach location, which then opens up once you step inside to its truly unique design and detail, and incredible views through the spectacular glazing. This is not a normal building, award winning Coffey Architects specified extreme bespoke detailing to all aspects of building and interiors, which required the upmost attention to detail by our Senior Project Manager, Torquil Home, delivering all aspects of this from beginning to end, and unfortunately with a pandemic in the middle!
The complexity of delivery cannot be underestimated. Read more about this multi-award winning project in Architecture Today, as it’s featured property.
Blueprint Awards 2021, Best Non-Public Residential – Winner.
Key Project Stages
✓ Minimalist design by multi-award winning RIBA architects.
✓ Very high level of finish and detail.
✓ Located in an exposed coastal location, with difficult access.
✓ Challenging construction processes.
✓ Collaborative working with designers and trade contractor specialists to achieve value engineering and overcome difficult design requirements.
✓ Exposed to extreme weather conditions.
✓ Ease provided project, site, and cost management throughout.
✓ Managing difficult design detailing and its resultant specialist interfaces.
Private Client
"We were always aware that the project was far from straightforward: working with such innovative architects, at a site with difficult access in – sometimes – hostile weather conditions all added to the challenge. Having become somewhat disillusioned when trying to engage directly with builders, we were introduced to the Construction Management (“CM”) route. “We are Ease” (“Ease”) stepped in and managed to deliver the scheme. All said and done, Ease managed the added complication of a global pandemic to the best of their ability and built our new home and, over a year post-completion, still help us with the occasional query. Simple conclusion: if we were to do the same again, we would choose the CM route …. and Ease if they were available."
