Prestigious Award for Luxury Super House Project
At a very special evening at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool’s Stanley Dock, Majik House were crowned winners of the Smart Home Project category at the Northern Design Awards 2022 for their involvement in quite an incredible commission.
The project in question is in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, a property which has been acclaimed as ‘the best home in the UK’ and ‘an incredible architectural masterpiece’.
Designed by award-winning North West practice Ben Jurin Architecture, the single storey property extends to over 13,000 sq/ft and features nine bathrooms, a front entrance with a 4m high single glass pivot door, not to mention an Olympic length swimming pool and gym.
Jit Mistry is Sales Director at Majik House and was the project lead on this commission: “I’ll start by saying that we’re not very big on awards at Majik House, and we’re much happier for the quality of our work to do the talking.”
“This was quite an exceptional project and we’ve got to firstly extend our thanks to Ben Jurin and his client for commissioning us and Opus Electrical and for putting their faith in us on such a prestigious development.”
Designs for the property were first submitted in the Autumn of 2019, with completion just under three years’ later in the Summer of 2022 and, even as we write just a few months later, the accolades have been incredible, not to mention the current valuation for the property – £10million, in case you were wondering!
“Like I say, we’re never ones for entering competitions for our work, although there are plenty that we’re sure would have also won awards through the years, but this one was such an exceptional project that we decided it was worth ‘blowing our own trumpet’ for once.” Adds Jit.
And that trumpet has well and truly been blown!
This year is the 20th time the Northern Design Awards have been held and saw more entries than ever before, with the project chosen from a shortlist of five amazing smart home projects.
“More than just showing lovely photography of the finished property, the judges wanted to know about how we’d approached the commission. We were fortunate that very clear objectives from both Ben, the architect, and the client which were met under the umbrella of the overall specification.”
“It was also a project in which we worked on the design, delivery and project management with Opus-Electrical, a partnership which worked brilliantly from start to completion and, we hope, they will be coming on-board with us for more projects in the near future.”
The judges were also impressed by the unobtrusive application of the technology, both complementing and enhance the property design, as well as being easy to use by the client straight away.
“There really isn’t much that the client needs to control in the property, especially with the lighting scheme which is integrated into the fabric of the building – in reality, the client only interacts with the system when they wish to change a lighting scene.”
“The control of the AV and lighting is through sensors and Control4 remotes. Apart from their iPads, phones and touch screens, there’s not much tech to be seen – no speaker grilles or downlighters are visible in the living areas, and a mix of invisible speakers and subwoofers were deployed to meet the brief and be integrated into the fabric of the building.”
Does this success mean that we’ll see Majik House entering more awards in the future?
“Never say never…” concludes a hesitant Jit, “Like I say, it’s not really our style but it is nice to have won such a brilliant award and we’ll certainly consider it again in the future. The truth is, we put the same degree of care and attention to detail into every project so you’d like to think that any commission we undertake could be – and should be – award winning.”