The dominant location location location feature of Silver Spray is the view. So put the beds, in bedroosm that look at the view, so that you can sit in bed and look out at the view.
Above is a picture of the Scarlet Hotel bedrooms that have the bathrooms behind the bed.
Also see these beds that have a bathroom or other space behind the bed >>
The house looks north wards up along Perranporth beach.
Most house visitors look up along the beach and towards the beach, so NE and not north, which is more straight out to sea (with less going on).
So, it seems to make sense to put the fire and the lounge facing the north facing windows and east facing wall.
This idea “hides” the TV / screen as it’d be a ceiling mounted projector that’d project onto the fire breast above the fire. The fire can still have the chimney inside the house, behind the wall, and so all that heat gain into the house.
Below the fire place could also be additional wood storage.
The above illustration also has the NE corner of the loung as not having a corner column, an “Open Corner Window”
– Architect’s Toolbox: The Open Corner Window, wrap a corner with glass to blur the distinctions between rooms and views
This fire has nice in front bench seats and wood storage.
Like the idea of walling in the fire from the front, but leaving the sides open for heat to come out & to stack logs.
– ie log storage, as per this photo:
This photo (below) is very bare, but the idea of the enclosed fire ….
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Well it’s started.
A chunk of time on-line, house building magazines, interior design magazines are getting my attention as I slowly start thinking about ideas, possibilities for what the property can become.
Not only the visual style, the house and living components but the technical aspects.
OK, it’s obvious when you think about it, but the opportunity to consider and link all elements from the foundations to the material for kitchen tops (there are some fab tops made from recycled material !) so that it’s not a house with a few eco add ons but a full eco house is massive.
Which items, value for £ spend have the most eco impact is interesting. Design for insulation and thermal mass is a LOT more important than the likes of double or even triple glazing.
On-line I was quick to find that St Agnes (the next village down the coast) has what looks like a fab eco house building company. One of their current Cornwall developments looks very much along the lines I’d like (there is of course the issue of getting planning etc.).