New show home marks ten year partnership between Scandia-Hus and Vandersanden

Leading sustainable timber frame house manufacturer, Scandia–Hus, and brick innovator, Vandersanden, have reached another significant landmark in their decade long partnership with the completion of The Mulberry, a new show home at the company’s HQ in East Grinstead.

The Mulberry is a three-bedroom chalet bungalow that successfully blends the traditional with the contemporary in a bold new design created for the UK self-build market.

The rear of The Mulberry features an attractive modern aesthetic with large-glazed spaces in the form of bi-fold doors and a bespoke shaped unit, both edged in grey aluminium frames.

The Hailsham Mixture

The front elevation is more traditional in appearance with a clay tile roof and cream cottage look windows. The entire timber-frame house is clad with the Hailsham Mixture brick from Vandersanden, providing a deep warmth, colour and texture to the design of The Mulberry.

Inside the property, Vandersanden’s dark Midnight Blue brick slips have been used to create an attractive, internal feature wall to provide further design inspiration to visitors.

The Hailsham Mixture is a multi-coloured facing brick from the extensive Vandersanden range, featuring a combination of brown, black and yellow tones over an orange base colour. These attractive hues are achieved through the use of specific sand types in the surface covering and, together with the sanded texture of this hand-formed brick, create a rich and characterful narrative that perfectly suits The Mulberry.

In The Mulberry, the Vandersanden bricks are laid in a stretcher bond, an approach that requires minimal brick cutting to reduce waste and increase material and build efficiency. This pattern is created by stacking bricks with the stretcher side facing out and the vertical joins on each course central to the bricks in the courses above and below.

‘A critical element’

Jeannette Cooper, Scandia–Hus’s Product Research & Site Co-ordination Manager, comments: “We are proud to unveil The Mulberry as our latest completed show home at our East Grinstead HQ.

“The Hailsham Mixture brick is a critical element in realising our design vision on this project which is a fitting way to mark our ten–year partnership with Vandersanden.

“As a brand, Vandersanden provides a wide choice of high-quality innovative and sustainable bricks which is backed by exceptional support in the way that they present their bricks and provide inspiration to our customers.

“These are the reasons we value our partnership and explains why we have worked so closely with them on so many projects and Scandia–Hus show homes over the years.

“Ultimately, Scandia–Hus and Vandersanden share the same goals – the creation of enduringly beautiful homes for our customers that are built with superior quality materials and show an exceptional standard of finish.”

Renowned for its Scandinavian style energy-saving homes, Scandia–Hus offers a complete, fully flexible bespoke design service to its customers. Designs, such as The Mulberry, can be tailored to suit different tastes, plot and spatial considerations as well as personal lifestyle needs. Many customers begin the process with a Scandia–Hus design and collaborate with the company’s in-house architectural designers to create the property of their dreams.

For more information on the Hailsham Mixture, Midnight Blue and the wide range of high-quality bricks available from Vandersanden, visit the Vandersanden website. For more information about Scandia–Hus, please visit their website www.scandia–hus.co.uk, or come along to the Open Day on Saturday 19^th March to view the new show home.

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