Taking control

Mike and Jane Cuva embraced the challenge of both designing and project managing their large-scale renovation, building around a small property to create a sleek light-filled home

WORDS Debbie Jeffery

REAL PROJECT EXTENSION AND REMODEL TIMELINE HOMEOWNERS Mike and Jane Cuva HOUSE TYPE Detached two-storey five-bedroom house HOUSE SIZE 375m ² LOCATION Woking, Surrey PROJECT Extensive remodel and extension BUILD ROUTE Self-managed subcontractors and DIY BUILD TIME Four years PLOT/HOUSE COST £937,000 in 2015 BUILD COST £1.2 million CURRENT VALUE £3 million+ Sleek Mediterranean and West Coast architecture were the inspiration for Mike and Jane Cuva’s contemporary flat-roofed home. Their new home is unrecognisable from the small pitch-roofed building that previously inhabited the site, and which still stands at the core of the new house. “In 2015, we bought a property that was marketed as a cottage on two acres, but in reality it was more like a dark and dingy double garage with a kitchenette and two small bedrooms…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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