Today we visited the beautiful gardens at Broughton Grange, a Tom Stuart Smith designed garden a stones throw from our studio. Even though coming to the end of the main growing season, the cleverly planted garden is still bursting with life. Featuring many different areas from the beautiful walled garden to the woodland garden and stumpery – a new discovery for us!
Office Barn Conversion Progress on Site - The windows are being installed in two of the three barns at our office barn conversion project. The window installation is always a big moment. They are big units which can weigh up to 400kg depending on their size. These…
A visit before the clients move in - This is a local project that a few of us from the practice we were able to visit just before the clients moved in. As you can see, the new residents are brave with colour! It combines with a more…
Merry Christmas….! - …. and a very happy new year, from all the team at Charlie Luxton Design!
Planning Permission Received - We are very excited to have received planning permission for this low energy housing development in Oxford. The scheme aims to provide housing by replacing a building which has been standing empty for some time. It is always a difficult…
Hook Norton’s Award Winning Community Housing Project! - It’s been a fantastic year for the community housing project here in Hook Norton. The first residents have moved in, the landscaping is bedding in and developing, and the community building, for use by the whole village is reaching completion.…
Birds eye view - Filming with a drone enables us to see sites and projects from a totally new angle. We now have wings! 
Exploring options - In these sketches we’re exploring material options for the cladding for a barn conversion. Sketching plays an important role in the design process. It helps us explore options and is also an accessible way of describing the options to a…
New photos of completed project - We recently re-visited a completed project to take more photographs of the exterior. The planting has settled in after being in place for a year and we were keen to see how it had evolved. Follow this link to see more! …
Team visit to recently completed project - It’s always useful for the team to visit a project as it reaches completion. They can see and touch materials in place and examine details translated from a drawing to the finished building. This building is beginning to settle in…
Photographing completed projects - We’ve had a busy couple of weeks catching the last of the settled weather and revisiting two completed projects. We went to take some more photos and also some drone footage. Both projects were completed a while ago and it’s…
