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Indulge Homes
Country Home Estates
Country Home Estates
Country Home Estates
More space. More privacy. More room to live.
More space. More privacy. More room to live.
More space. More privacy. More room to live.
The house and its grounds, considered as one
The house and its grounds, considered as one
The house and its grounds, considered as one
A country home estate is defined less by the house than by what surrounds it. Distance from what is busy. Depth of ground. The quiet that comes with both. Here the ground is not a setting for the architecture. It is part of the architecture, and it is considered before anything else.
Generosity without display
Generosity without display
Space is easy to promise and difficult to use well. A home earns its scale by what it does with it: rooms that hold light, thresholds that slow the passage between them, ground that is lived in rather than looked at. Restraint is what keeps generosity from becoming performance. The architecture stays quiet so the land can be the larger presence.
Space is easy to promise and difficult to use well. A home earns its scale by what it does with it: rooms that hold light, thresholds that slow the passage between them, ground that is lived in rather than looked at. Restraint is what keeps generosity from becoming performance. The architecture stays quiet so the land can be the larger presence.
The land sets the terms
The land sets the terms
Before anything is drawn, the ground is read. What is already growing there. Where water moves after rain. Where the light arrives in the morning and where it leaves. The house is then placed to keep what is worth keeping and to shelter what is exposed. An approach is not a flourish. It is the time the land takes to introduce itself.
Before anything is drawn, the ground is read. What is already growing there. Where water moves after rain. Where the light arrives in the morning and where it leaves. The house is then placed to keep what is worth keeping and to shelter what is exposed. An approach is not a flourish. It is the time the land takes to introduce itself.
Built to sit within the land
Built to sit within the land
Plans open outward. The garden is drawn toward the centre of the house rather than left at its edges, and sheltered ground carries the rooms back out again. Openings are judged by what they frame, not by how much glass they show. Materials are chosen because they weather rather than date. Proportion does the work that ornament is often asked to do.
Plans open outward. The garden is drawn toward the centre of the house rather than left at its edges, and sheltered ground carries the rooms back out again. Openings are judged by what they frame, not by how much glass they show. Materials are chosen because they weather rather than date. Proportion does the work that ornament is often asked to do.
Life moves between inside and out
Life moves between inside and out
Days spread out here. The line between a room and the open air is thin, and it is crossed without ceremony. Where water belongs to a scheme, it sits within the planting rather than on top of it, so it reads as landscape and not as an object placed on one. Privacy is what makes any of this ordinary. Nobody is performing.
Days spread out here. The line between a room and the open air is thin, and it is crossed without ceremony. Where water belongs to a scheme, it sits within the planting rather than on top of it, so it reads as landscape and not as an object placed on one. Privacy is what makes any of this ordinary. Nobody is performing.
A home of this kind begins with a conversation about the land.
A home of this kind begins with a conversation about the land.
A home of this kind begins with a conversation about the land.
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