De La Beche Manor / VW+BS

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Text description provided by the architects. An entrepreneurial couple approached us with 5 children, a sixth on the way and a number of pets, to help them refurbish the house they had just bought on a 20-acre estate in Berkshire. The house, dating from the 19th century, had been added on to in a piece meal fashion by various owners with very mixed results. This resulted in a series of awkwardly arranged and disconnected rooms that were very dark and did not suit modern family life.