When we were appointed to work on this project we were greeted with a 1950’s chocolate brown brick bungalow on a gloomy day which featured very little appeal to spend time in. Our client tasked us with a comprehensive contemporary re-imagination of the house to double its sleeping capacity and create modern bright and open spaces to replace the dark and cellular rooms.

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In order to take full advantage of the impressive garden outlook, we created an extension to double the size of the living room and, through the use of a large corner bi-folding door, we created a room that could fully open up to the garden. The cramped existing cellular Kitchen, Hall and Dining Room were opened up to create a multi-level open plan central core, flooded with light through new Velux windows inserted into the open plan staircase zone.

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Within the existing roof space, some new steelwork permitted the formation of 2 new Bedrooms, a family Bathroom and a landing running the length of the house overlooking the double height Dining area below. A new entrance lobby extension gave the previously unreadable entrance façade a clear entry point whilst further allowing natural light into the floor plan.