#victorianhomes

Etta House began with a family who wanted to change how their home felt and was lived in - by adding more space, more light and more clarity. The result is a ground floor side and rear extension that transforms a tired Victorian property in Balham that was fragmented, dark and disconnected from the garden, into a generous, contemporary living environment that is open, coherent and filled with natural light - without losing sight of the character of the original building.  Chris Snook Rather than imposing an ideology on the site, Stylus Architects allowed the site to generate the architecture. A wedge-shaped geometry defines the plot, and every wall, every junction and every view originates from those existing geometries. The rear... More