Golf Place 225

From the street the house is deliberately reticent — pale stone, a flat roof line, dark recessed glazing, and the car court held behind planting. The generosity is kept for the garden side, where the ground is broken into a series of outdoor rooms: a stepped path through planting, a shaded seating court under a slatted pergola, a dining terrace, and the pool sitting between them.

Detail is where the project earns its quality. Paving is laid as floating slabs with planting between them, the pergola's timber slats are set to throw a graded shadow across the terrace through the day, and a perforated metal screen doubles as a water wall, adding sound and movement to the most sheltered corner of the garden. Deep green and burnt orange furniture is the only colour allowed against the neutral shell.