Projects · Residential · Shropshire
Mount Pleasant
An 18th-century cottage redesigned around family life — my own home, and my practice’s proving ground.
The dilemma every client brings, I brought home: an old house full of character, none of it working for the way we live.
Three years, a renovation and a two-storey extension — designed room by room only after the whole house had an answer. Four children, one long-term plan, and a budget that had to be argued over like anyone’s: knowing where to spend and where to save.
The landing became a vaulted library under a new gable window — the kind of space no room-by-room brief would ever have asked for, and now the heart of the house.
Project facts
Property · 18th-century cottage, Shropshire
Scope · Whole-home renovation + two-storey extension
Size · c. 200m²
Programme · 3 years, phased around family life
Best Interior — Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2020
“You need to know where to spend and where to save.”
Camilla Monk, as featured — the principle that shaped every decision here.
Around the house
Three rooms, three different jobs
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