Rear extension

A modern glazed rear extension replaces an old 1970's lean-to traansforming the dated configuration to a layout fit for today's modern living.  The new kitchen and dining extension designed by Hayward Smart Architects uses an oversized frameless rooflight and slim sliding glass doors to allow for easy access to the garden. Richard Chivers Richard Chivers Richard Chivers More

forresterarchitects has enlivened a London townhouse, transforming it with a bright and airy design approach. The traditional London townhouse has some issues with its thermal performance, and with the client, we were determined to address them through this refurbishment.  As energy costs continue to rise, the project is an opportunity to reevaluate the house's thermal efficiency and steer clear of relying on a gas boiler to provide an alternative energy solution. The air source heat pump is an increasingly viable option for a large townhouse. Concealed to the front of the house it is discreetly located below street level.  Fred Howarth Fred Howarth Fred Howarth Fred Howarth Their day to day life is a spaciou... More

Natural light was at the heart of this project. Born out of the need to expand an Edwardian property for a couple, the core ambition was to create a flexible living space that reflected a new approach to contemporary design, characterized by light and simplicity. This rear extension gains in richness of space and adds over twenty square meters of footprint, having a more and better relations to the garden, and to the exterior as a whole. It extends the galley kitchen into the garden, allowing to have an external BBQ in line with the work surface, and having a door at that end to allow flows into the garden.An extruded like glass wall and ceiling would be contained and held up by the party wall and an additional steel structure, that ag... More

This project was a proposed remodelling of an existing house in London, with the addition of a small rear extension to accommodate the needs of the client. The house belongs to an author of romance novels that resides with her partner and cat. We decided to propose for the extension a quiet place with ample daylight for her to read and write. A shelf is designed for the wall above the desk that doubles as a perch for the cat. A skylight is placed on the roof to let daylight in from above.The living room is separated from the dining area with sliding crittal glass doors. A small study is proposed on one side of the fireplace along the exterior wall to receive daylight from the window. The kitchen is fitted with a new island and wall-to-wall... More

Our clients found the original Edwardian layout of their new home in Barnes, South West London with it’s dark interiors and cellular, disconnected spaces hard to reconcile with their desire for light filled, free flowing spaces with a bold design and connection to the garden.For phase one, we tapered the interior walls away from the entrance to frame and expand views towards and through the garden as you move into the house, towards the greenery. Planes of tiled and oak floor finishes follow the angled hallway through the large open plan kitchen, dining and snug defining and demarking function and continue out across the garden patio to form a raised flowerbed connecting the inside with outside. The interior bench seating passes throug... More

An internal glazed and plant filled courtyard fosters a blurring of boundaries between the inside and outside at Mrs Custard's House in Brixton, London. Black brick wraps ribbon-like from the master bedroom through the kitchen and dining room and settles to form a second sunken courtyard. We created a generous and light-filled sequence of spaces which work both for our clients and for Mrs Custard, their cat. In fact, Mrs Custard is the proud owner of a cat flap which takes her through a cupboard, up some steps, through the wall and onto the bench outside. She couldn’t be happier. More

A family home full of nooks and crannies for clients with an eclectic collection and a love of display. Nooks and crannies permeate and define the extension and refurbishment of this terraced house. Through a series of structural alterations we formed a series of elegant, open plan and light filled spaces conceived as a series of nooks from the scale of a room down to the home for a favourite bowl. A large ash framed glazed door and windows frame views of the garden through the house and from the entrance. We designed the kitchen as a gallery for an eclectic cookware collection and allowed these to decorate the space. The project experiments, combining stainless steel, birch faced plywood, grey mdf, cement tiles and a cast in-... More