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Completed in early 2010, Laburnum is a contemporary detached 3-storey family home. It offers versatile living space combined with outstanding specification and exceptionally high levels of energy efficiency and sustainability.
The house has been carefully designed to take advantage of natural light and the path of the sun through the day. On the top floor there are two walk-on roof terraces, the largest being private and spacious and which enjoys sun through the afternoon and into the evening. To the rear there is a South-East facing secluded and secure garden, over 50 ft in width.
There are 4 double bedrooms of which 3 are en-suited, including the second floor master with roof terrace. The open plan ground floor comprises kitchen, dining and living space with double height windows and to the first floor is a galleried reception room. There is a family bathroom, a ground floor WC and an integral double garage with remote control access.
Internal specification is to a high standard. The bespoke kitchen has Neff appliances and Corian worktops and the bathrooms feature the latest Bristan and Duravit fittings with Italian tiling. There is also a multi-room hi-def home entertainment system and CCTV security. Achieving an ‘exemplary’ Level 4 Code for Sustainable Homes rating, it's one of only a handful of UK homes built to this very high standard of energy efficiency and sustainability: Very well insulated, with high efficiency heat pump heating, the whole house is automatically ventilated for year round comfort. Rainwater from the roof is recycled for loo flushing. The home also achieves Secured By Design accreditation.
Our most recent development, Laburnum, achieved an ‘exemplary’ Level 4 rating under the Code for Sustainable Homes. Very few Level 4 homes have been built in the UK; mostly they have been built as prototypes or for technology demonstrations. We are proud to be building homes to this leading level of sustainability.
As well as creating desirable homes, we also provide consultancy to other building professionals, which helps us when integrating sustainable features into our own developments. We prefer to do this in an understated way, avoiding a typically Eco House appearance with wind turbines and large areas of solar panels. We are also select systems carefully, using only proven technology.
Here we have included some sustainability features, many incorporated into the Laburnum project.
It’s all about lifestyle...
We aim to create desirable homes that look the part and have low environmental impact; but we also want them to be great places to live.
We think carefully about how a home will be used, and imagine living there and how that experience can be enhanced, now and in the future. For example; a family bathroom which has a whirlpool bath, a speaker in the ceiling, a recessed TV at the head of the bath, dimmable lighting and electric underfloor heating to add comfort to those stylish Italian tiles.
We like to integrate systems to make them flexible, functional and easy to use, and so that they can be adapted and upgraded in the future. We use the latest structured cabling to allow hi speed and hi-def data to be distributed around the home, with data points in most rooms for easy broadband access.
Features such as multi-room audio-visual are integrated in such a way that they can be controlled from a single remote with a built-in display, or using a menu on the TV screen. Media can be selected from blu-ray, Sky, an integrated Ipod dock, DAB radio etc. From the same remote, it is possible to control the integrated lighting system, so that mood lighting zones can be set. It is even possible to remotely control features such as motorised blinds and view on-screen the images from the external security cameras.
