Two storey house extension.[40+40m2]. New living / garden room and open plan kitchen. New more traditional looking roofscape.
Existing building
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Reynoldston: double side extension & kitchen
Thursday, July 19th, 2012Killay: garage roof conversion & house entrance
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Garage conversion, Killay, Swansea. 28m2
Garage conversion replacing decayed flat roof. Timber frame, highly insulated.
New house porch & entrance
Horton: bungalow extension
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Dormer bungalow extension, Horton, Gower.
Existing ground floor area 87m2. Proposed extension 25m2.
Design + Build
Building work completed March 2009.
existing ground floor plan
A lovely small c.1920′s dormer bungalow. Nice traditional materials and details but the exiting property had a very cramped kitchen / dining room and only a single reception room. (more…)
Croxley Green maxi side + rear extension
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
House Extension, Herts. Extension: 43 m2 / Total House Area: 152 m2.
Grotty side alley with neighbour built against asymmetric boundary.
Side and rear extension to create extra living areas, making maximum use of limited site. Boundary asymmetrically aligned requiring an unusual solution.
Sketch scheme with [part] two storey vaulted side extension.
The design results from the specific site constraints – planning guidance restrictions and the technical challenges of infilling between existing buildings. (more…)
Chorleywood extension, glazed link + garage conversion
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Extension & Alterations, Herts. Extension Area: 4.8 m2
One of the smallest extensions I’ve ever done, but also one of the most successful in terms of improving flexibility, functionality and property value. Very ‘forensic’ and ‘tight grain’ design, 100% bespoke, resulting from close survey of the existing house and analysis of options to arrive at the ‘right’ scale of intervention.
Existing layout – crappy kitchen & use of space. This existing kitchen was definitely the low point in this otherwise nice house. The layout was of little practical use and offered little connection with the lovely mature gardens or distant panoramic views. Not contributing much to family life at all.
We opened up the existing kitchen by removing all internal [loadbearing] partitions] and adding a new projecting bay window to take full advantage of views. We moved utility into the existing garage and made a new loft play room and added an asymmetric glazed link between house & garage that and opens into the landscape and floods the space with natural light.
Rickmansworth: roof-off loft conversion
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Loft Conversion & House Refurb, Herts.
House Area: 335 m2 / Loft Conversion: 50 m2.
Roof off loft conversion plus refurbishments and upgrades to the existing house. The house remained in use during the works.
Draethen new housing; selfbuilder developers
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Housing. Draethen, Nr Caerphilly.
3 no. 5 bedroom houses [320 m2 per unit]. Owner developers.
Rogerstone new home: selfbuild
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Self Build Family Home. Rogerstone, Nr Newport.
5 bedrooms [330 m2].
The scheme involved the demolition and replacement of a pair of attached semi-derelict cottages in a wonderful rural setting near Rogerstone. The site sits atop the mountain ridge with the Sirhowy valley one side and panoramic views of the open countryside to Newport and hills towards Cwmbran on the other. (more…)
Oxford rear extension & tidy up
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Home extension, Oxford. 14m2
Typical small single storey rear extension to create a larger kitchen / dining / family room. The design created a light & airy open plan space; a great improvement over the existing ‘galley’ kitchen and a huge improvement to the flexibility of this family home.
I must have done a dozen or more of this specific type of rear extension over the years, each one very ‘forensic’ and ‘tight grain’, totally site specific and bespoke, always loads of work for relatively small extra floor areas. It’s definitely quality not quantity that counts with such projects. These projects are some of the most satisfying to get right, but also potentially the most fraught with problems and hardest of all for an architect or builder to make money from!
As a client you’ll definitely ‘get out what you put in’ with this type of project in terms of doing your own homework to help fully explain your needs and expectations, then investing in a good architect’s proper design time. I often spend significant amounts of time and effort to arrive at a solution that looks simple and obvious only for the the client to think all I did was sit down for 1/2 hour and sketch it up! If you seek the best possible [bespoke] solution and want any chance of building on time, on budget and to the desired quality, you really must prepare yourself from the outset and be willing to invest in early design, the earlier the better! It’s at this stage especially that a skilled architect can add value in many ways.
