The front door opens on a straight view through the living space to the garden. That line sets the tone for this long narrow house, where the plan stretches deep into the plot and the rooms are arranged to keep sight moving from one end to the other. A side approach along the facade brings you to the entrance first, then the interior opens out in layers: patio, living room, covered terrace, and garden.

A plan drawn out to the full depth

The house uses its elongated footprint with care. The living room is pulled out of the rectangular plan, so daylight reaches it from three sides and the room keeps contact with the patio at the front and the covered terrace at the back. That movement makes the long narrow house read as more than a corridor plan; the sequence of spaces changes as you walk, but the garden sightline stays present. Even before you reach the back, the exterior is part of the interior view.

Behind the living area sits the kitchen, placed slightly offset in the plan. From there, a passage leads toward the main bedroom, dressing room, and bathroom. The arrangement is compact and direct, with the open kitchen at the centre of daily movement. The open staircase begins here too, rising from the kitchen area and carrying the same visual logic upstairs. In a house with this much depth, that single vertical connection keeps the interior from feeling divided into separate parts.

White surfaces, wood floors and black details

The interior is built from a small set of materials: white surfaces, wood, and black accents. Those black lines return in the lighting, doors, window treatments, and small details such as the fall protection. The wooden floor continues into the floating steps and carries that same tone upward into the bedrooms. Nothing is overworked. The rooms rely on clean edges, visible joints, and the way one material meets the next.

Marble marks the kitchen and comes back in the bathroom, giving those rooms a harder, cooler surface against the wood floor and white walls. Because the same materials repeat in different parts of the house, the long narrow house keeps a clear visual language without becoming repetitive. The result is a warm minimal interior that feels edited rather than decorated, with each element placed where it can be seen clearly: on the stair, at the worktop, in the door line, or along the window edge.

The open staircase as a hinge

The open staircase is one of the strongest spatial moves in the house. Its floating treads start beside the kitchen and draw the eye upward without blocking the room below. The steps are light in appearance, but the stair does more than connect floors. It marks the transition from the main living level to the upper floor, where two bedrooms and a private bathroom are placed. Because the stair sits in view from the living zone, the vertical movement becomes part of daily life rather than a hidden service line.

Brick, black panels and recessed windows

Outside, the house is made from grey-toned brick and black facade panels. The mass reads solid, but the openings soften it. Windows are set deeper into the wall, which gives the elevations a sense of shelter and breaks up the larger volume. This treatment suits the long narrow house well: the building keeps its depth, yet the recessed openings prevent the facade from feeling flat. The black panels add a sharper line, while the brick carries the larger surface.

The images also show how the volume meets the ground with a measured calm. Large panes of glass, overhangs, and deep reveals shape the frontage and side views, while the patio and lawn sit close to the house rather than far away from it. That proximity matters in a plan like this. The patio and covered terrace are not leftover spaces; they extend the living room and guide the shift between inside and outside.

Light filtered through the rooms

Daylight is handled with restraint. Horizontal blinds soften the larger windows in the kitchen and living areas, and the deep window openings create shaded edges around the glass. In the interior, light falls across the timber floor, the white walls, and the black details without strong contrast. A ring-shaped pendant in the living space adds a clear visual point, but the room never depends on one gesture. The long narrow house works because the structure of the plan, the stair, and the openings already do most of the visual work.

From front to back, the project keeps returning to the same idea: a direct view, a measured turn, then another opening toward the outside. That is what makes the route through the house memorable. The kitchen, the open staircase, the patio and covered terrace, and the garden sightline all remain connected, so each space feels like part of a longer sequence rather than an isolated room. The house is understated, but its layout is precise, and that precision is what gives the interior its calm.

Photography: La-Par.