Inspiring Home Extensions & Loft Conversions

The remodelling of this Victorian terrace in Highgate Village
centres on a glass roof extension that incorporates an ornate
laser cut steel screen, playing with ideas of layering, light
and shadow.

The project combines new-build elements with complete
refurbishment: the kitchen and dining areas have been
significantly extended on the ground floor, whilst the upper
floors have been reconfigured with new bathrooms, bedrooms,
libraries and a study.

The box roof of the extension includes a laser cut steel screen
incorporated within the structural glass. The screen modulates
light and privacy through density and pattern but also provides
ornament and decoration when viewed from the rooms above
or neighbouring properties. The subtle and dappled nature of
the light during the day is contrasted with the dramatic striated
golden light reflected onto the dining table at night.

The front of the property has also been extended to its full
height, providing a new bathroom, library and cloakroom on the
front facade of the terrace. Bespoke joinery runs throughout
the house, with new fireplaces, storage areas and libraries
neatly integrated with refurbished Victorian plaster mouldings
and timber detailing.

Remodelling of a decrepit Edwardian terrace house in a
conservation area. An extension twists away from the house
at a 30 degree angle, creating an overlap between the indoor
and the outdoor spaces.

The angled extension responds to the client's desire to be able
to perceive the garden as a continuation of the domestic space
rather than 'the outdoor'. The kitchen-living area expands
into the external landscape, whilst the garden surrounds and
almost invades the domestic space through a frameless glass
skylight and open façade.

The angle facilitates the overlap between the garden and
kitchen thresholds - so whist at the sink you feel the garden
is actually behind you - and also dramatically improves the
natural lighting into the house. Light floods in via seamless
glass sliding doors and the skylight, reinforcing the perception
of a spatial continuity.

The internal floor projects out though the faceted zinc façade
as a floating external deck, cut back to the same fine angle.

Contemporary renovation and remodelling of a Victorian
town house in Kensington, incorporating a double-height glazed
extension to the rear with a unique motorised sash-window.

Previously divided into four flats, the project reinstates the
double fronted four-storey house as a single dwelling. Through
a reorganisation of the internal layout and relocation of the
staircase to one side of the house, open plan living has been
achieved without disrupting the original architecture.

Located in a conservation area, the principal intervention is to
the rear, thereby retaining the integrity of the street façade.
A new 6m double-height extension connects ground and first
floors, and opens out to the garden via a motorized, oversized,
triple sash window, measuring 6.4m x 4m. Supplied by Vitrocsa,
the guillotine window is a contemporary interpretation of the
ubiquitous Victorian sash window on a much larger scale,
flooding the principal living spaces with light and creating
uninterupted views of the south facing garden.

The palette of materials (glass and a new flank wall of cement
render) is designed to distinguish it from the original brick
building, an approach encouraged by English Heritage who
suggest that additions to period buildings should make clear
what is of our time and what is historic.

Refurbishment of a Victorian terraced house, including the
creation of a large open plan living space on the ground floor
and a new basement with courtyard.

This typical semi-detached building, arranged over three floors
with a small basement level coal store, has been replanned and
completely refitted to create flexible family living spaces that
flow into one another across its lower two levels.

A new basement level has been created, extending beyond the
house and forming courtyards at the front and back. This is
complemented by a glass rear extension across the full width
of the garden that is linked to the basement by a double height
fully glazed screen.

In contrast to the formal reception rooms of the original house
the ground floor extension at the rear opens up the new family
room to a courtyard and garden accessed by a simple glazed
bridge. Rooflights and floor glazing open up views through the
house and allow visual connections between each floor.