Beautiful seaside house
Beautiful seaside house. Colin Pennington and Linh Vu have added colourful extensions to a 1960s seaside house in East Sussex. Feature DEBBIE JEFFERY Photographer THE MODERN HOUSE.
MEET THE RENOVATORS Colin Pennington and his wife, Linh Vu, are both architects with their own practice, Pennington Vu Architecture (pv-a.com) and have a daughter, Mai, nine. Their home is a detached 1960s fi vebedroom property in an East Sussex village. BUILD BRIEF To replace the existing garage and utility room with a new sunroom, ground-fl oor bedroom and bathroom, installing full-height glass doors in the dormers and adding a front south-facing roof terrace to enjoy the breathtaking sea views. PROJECT COSTS Black cladding £700 Building work £12,000 Flooring £3,000 Glazing £4,000 Roofl ight £1,000 Electrics, plumbing & fi nishing £4,300 TOTAL SPEND £25,000.
As architects, what potential BEFORE could you see for the house when you first bought it and how has the design evolved? We bought the place as a holiday home. It’s set back from the cliff s, with fantastic views of the Channel and a large private garden. It was this location that was so appealing – the house itself hadn’t been touched in decades. It took time for us to decide what we wanted to do, and we’ve completely changed the ground oor layout, replacing the garage with a new family room and extending to the rear to create a new bedroom and bathroom.
How did you choose the materials used and did you both agree on the colours? Originally the council rejected our plan for a more contemporary extension, so we reduced it in size and were able to build under permitted development rights. e red-stained timber-clad extension at the rear was also within permitted development, but the council wanted us to clarify the hue. To the front we used black fibre cement boards and bright yellow glass doors, which were made bespoke for us. Colour also features throughout the house, and we lined the bedroom in the red box extension with OSB boards to the walls and ceiling.
Were you involved in any hands-on DIY work? We like to be able to make our own mark on a house. I built the red timber bedroom to the rear and brought in people to help with the new sunroom, then hired specialists for the electrics, plumbing and heating. e kitchen was mainly an inexpensive DIY project and we made the kitchen table out of old scaffold planks. It’s helped the whole project to feel much more personal.
WORK WITH WHAT’S THERE Instead of covering the period stone cladding, the couple have made it into a porch feature. The roof now has new concrete tiles, similar to the originals, but with larger glazed areas. Yellow aluminium door frames bring the house bang up to date.
FRAME THE VIEW An original garage stood to one side of the property, but by replacing this with a glazed sunroom with built-in blockwork, the sea view can now be fully enjoyed from the ground floor through yellow bi-folds. Upstairs, the dormer windows have been extended downwards into doors.
Sources: GoodHomes UK, September 2018
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