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Recognised nationally for excellence in design and construction, our homes have been featured in Grand Designs and Build It magazine, and showcased on Channel 4’s Building the Dream with Charlie Luxton. We have also won several awards for our homes including the LABC Building Excellence Awards for Best Individual Home

Hanlin House

Challenge: Hanlin House was a dated 1960s home in poor condition on a tight urban site with significant untapped potential. The first challenge was helping the clients understand whether refurbishment or replacement offered the best way forward.

Solution: Snug tested both refurbishment and new-build options, helping the clients clarify their brief and establish the right strategy for the split level site. The resulting new-build design unlocked significantly more accommodation, carefully positioning and shaping the home to make the most of the constrained site, capture key views and respond sensitively to its neighbours. We then helped the clients navigate the planning process and secure permission.

Outcome: The result is a contemporary new home that unlocks the full potential of a challenging urban site, providing significantly more space while making the most of its setting and key views.

Hermitage

Challenge: Our client wanted to build a large modern home in the grounds of their historic Georgian property and within a village Conservation Area.

Solution: Snug negotiated planning permission for an ambitious pavilion home that respected the setting of the existing property whilst enabling our clients to enjoy the benefits of contemporary open plan living.

Outcome: The result is a contemporary new home that unlocks the full potential of this garden plot, unlocking significant development value for our clients.

Clovers

Challenge: Clovers is a replacement dwelling on a constrained urban site within a suburban setting. The challenge was to significantly increase the accommodation while responding sensitively to the established landscape, mature trees and substantial changes in level.

Solution: Snug used the challenging levels to shape a split-level home that steps through the landscape. Carefully positioned windows frame views into the tree canopy, while dual aspect living spaces open onto gardens on both sides, bringing daylight and landscape deep into the home.

Outcome: A substantially larger replacement home that makes far better use of a challenging site while preserving its distinctive wooded character. The changing levels create a spatially rich interior and a strong relationship between the house, its gardens and the surrounding landscape.

1 Ranelagh Road

Challenge: 1 Ranelagh Road is a Victorian house that had become dark and disconnected from its garden, with a dated conservatory limiting the quality of the ground-floor living spaces.

Solution: Snug replaced the conservatory with a simple but elegant contemporary extension and remodelled the ground floor to bring light deep into the home. Rather than mimic the Victorian architecture, the extension creates a deliberate contrast, giving the new addition its own identity while respecting the character of the original house.

Outcome: A light-filled family home with a strong connection to the garden, where old and new sit confidently together, each with their own distinct character.

Amberley

Challenge: Amberley was an undeveloped garden plot within the settlement boundary, with no existing permission for a new home. Subtle changes in level and a sensitive planning context made unlocking the site’s potential particularly challenging.

Solution: Snug developed a site-specific design that works with the changing levels and carefully positions the house to capture long-distance views. We navigated the planning process to establish the principle of a new dwelling and secure permission.

Outcome: A unique new home that unlocks the potential of a previously undeveloped site, making the most of its dramatic setting, changing levels and far-reaching views.

Lake Road

Challenge: Lake Road was a replacement dwelling in a suburban setting that needed to deliver modern living within a restrained traditional form.

Solution: We created a new home that presented a restrained traditional frontage to the street whilst opening up to the garden through a more generous and contemporary facade at the rear.

Outcome: A modern family home that sits comfortably in its setting whilst enjoying the strong connections with the garden offered by modern design.

Orchard House

Challenge: Orchard House was a dated family home that had become too small, no longer suited the needs of the family and had poor street appeal.

Solution: Snug completely rejuvenated and extended the existing property, creating more accommodation and a stronger connection to its sylvan setting. A bold white ‘picture frame’ wraps the first floor, creating balconies and solar shading while giving the house a distinctive new identity that reflects the clients modernist tastes.

Outcome: A contemporary modernist family home with a strong street presence, generous living spaces and a much closer relationship with its garden.

The Stealth House

Challenge: Our clients were seeking to replace a small two bedroom bungalow with a substantial new family home on the edge of the Winchester Conservation Area. This required a highly innovative approach to creating volume whilst respecting the homes setting.

Solution: Snug developed a highly innovative approach that 'shrink wrapped' the substantially increased internal accommodation. The design's undulating form matched the overall height of the original property, successfully disguising a two storey family home.

Outcome: A highly innovative design that cleverly unlocked the sites development potential and delivered significantly more accommodation. The result in a much loved family home with unique character.

Southdowns House

Challenge: Southdowns House sits within the protected landscape of the South Downs National Park, where securing permission for a contemporary new home required a highly sensitive response to its landscape setting.

Solution: Snug developed a landscape-led design with a low profile, meadow roof and a contemporary interpretation of local vernacular. The scheme evolved positively in response to feedback from planning and landscape officers, embedding the house sensitively within its setting.

Outcome: Planning permission was secured at the first attempt for a distinctive contemporary home that sits quietly within the landscape and celebrates its connection to the South Downs.