Longmoor Road, Liphook

What we did

This was a whole house renovation of a family home in Liphook, Hampshire. The house was stripped back and brought right up to date throughout, while keepingand enhancing its character.

We made structural alterations to open up the ground floor, forming a new opening in the load-bearing wall between the sitting room and dining room andremoving the kitchen/bar wall to create a kitchen that works for modern family life. The layout was reworked to create a new utility room and ground floor shower room. Where old floor joists had failed we replaced them in the utility, study, bedroom and side entrance hall.

The asbestos ceilings were safely removed across the ground floor and replaced with new plasterboard and skim. The house had a full rewire, including new lighting with brass fittings, an EV car charger and whole-house WiFi, and theheating was upgraded with a new unvented hot water cylinder and newradiators throughout.

Inside there is a new kitchen with quartz worktops and a herringbone tiled splashback, a new family bathroom, ensuite, utility and shower room. Polyflor Camaro LVT flooring ties the ground floor and bathrooms together, and bespoke shelving was built into the lounge alcoves, study, utility and pantry along with a built-in study desk.

Outside, we built a new oak framed porch with a plain tiled roof, timber cladding and Yorkstone paving to the porch, steps and side patio. The front bay window was given an oak frame and tiled roof to match, and new oak barge boards were fitted to the front gable. New windows, patio doors to the lounge and a striking purple front door complete the frontage, with new rainwater drainage and soakaway and a new tarmac driveway.

The existing fireplace was rendered and finished with a black limestone hearth and oak mantle, and the whole house was decorated throughout in Farrow & Ball colours to finish the space beautifully.