Devonport Villa - Alterations & Addition by Cadman Architectural Design Ltd

Devonport Villa Additions

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This house was designed for longtime residents and devotees of Devonport. Their brief was to achieve a heritage looking house, built with modern durable materials, which would enable a classic Auckland lifestyle while appreciating the spaces and detail of a traditional Victorian villa. A design was established for a single storey house with a wraparound verandah and bedrooms concealed in the roof space. This was possible within the tight site restrictions and planning rules, giving the house the appearance of a classic Victorian villa. Elements vital to the look and feel of a villa were incorporated such as a generous central hall and stairwell, high stud walls and bay windows. The front of the house was designed in a traditional manner with rooms off each side of the hall holding a cosy but grand parlour, an office/study and bedrooms. The rear of the house offers an open-plan kitchen, dining and family space that opens onto the back yard through several sets of doors. The upper floor holds the master bedroom, ancillary rooms and a guest suite. Considerable care was taken to give the rooms the correct proportions, lighting, details and finishes in keeping with the Villa theme. Concealing the upper level rooms from view from the street preserved the appearance of a villa, while still enabling sufficient natural light penetration into those spaces.

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“VERY PROFESSIONAL" We have enjoyed a very good working relationship with the Cadman Design team for the past 10 years. In this time Cadman has designed for our mutual clients many projects, new luxury homes, minor dwellings, renovations and extensions, a subdivision of land and a commercial retail development. Cadman has also carried out design work for my family personally with the designs for a renovation to our existing home and a new minor dwelling for our lifestyle property in Okura. We have found the team to be very professional to deal with and have savoured the fact that Cadman is willing to work with us - the project managers, to achieve a good quality design for the clients to a budget they can afford. Cadman's attention to detailing along with their ability to produce clear legible specification and an easily read set of plans make building their designs very easy. Our clients have always spoken highly of the Cadman team and have found them easy to get along with, they are very capable of producing the dream home our clients want to live in. A testament to this is that Cadman Architectural Design recently completed the design for 3 town houses which are close to the end of their construction program, and have just completed the design for a clients lifestyle property in Silverdale which is due to go in for consent. Both personally and on behalf of our company Frontline Projects Limited we would have no problems what so ever in recommending Cadman Architectural Design for future design work.”

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