Inkwood is what happens when you decide not to knock it down, and your client is an Interior Designer. StudioHaB took a modest bungalow in Rock and transformed it into a five-bedroom contemporary home through extension, vaulted ceilings and a natural material palette so considered it feels like it grew here rather than was built.

The charred larch cladding sets the tone outside: dark, textured and quietly confident against the Cornish landscape. Inside, the mood shifts: morning light pours through soaring vaulted ceilings and a fully glazed gable, flooding the kitchen and dining space with warmth. The kitchen itself is beautifully restrained: stone-topped island, pale timber cabinetry, nothing superfluous. Off it, a terracotta snug with a wood-burning stove offers the kind of corner you want to share with friends on a cold winter’s night.

Inkwood proves that sometimes the best thing to do with a tired bungalow is keep it… and make it extraordinary.
Interior design by Abbi de Bunsen