• Loft & Rear Extension
• Internal refurbishment with staircase adjustments
• Conservation Area
• Architecture & Project Management
• Interior Design, Furniture & Accessories
• Landscape Design

Our clients, a busy international family of 5, owned an imposing Victorian townhouse on a leafy crescent in South-West London. They came to us initially to help them extend the top floor with a loft conversion.

On working closely with the client to understand their lifestyles and how they used their home, it soon became clear that by improving the approach and impact to the ‘everyday’ entrance on the side, we could transform the lower ground floor of the home into a family kitchen and living space that would become the heart of the house. Creating a more harmonious and practical flow throughout the home.

The new arched front door leads to a new, enlarged entrance hall, which compounds that sense of arrival with dark moody panelled walls that hide doors to a laundry room, a boot room, and a snug.

The monochrome theme extends to the striped detailing on tiled mosaic flooring that runs through the hallway into the ancillary rooms adding a contemporary twist to the hallway. A new stair curls down from the upper ground floor, continuing the period feel of the main stair to this level too, and banishing the sense of this area being ‘below stairs’.

The big reveal, however, is via an oversized sliding panelled door that reveals the new extended kitchen and dining room. A wall of crittal doors and timber framed window seats offers views onto the large garden and outdoor seating area.

Outside, the new black brick extension features exposed joists internally and urban 'bullnose brick' detailing around the windows.

By incorporating a large bespoke moulded concrete planter into the design for the outdoor seating area, we were able to bring a mature olive tree close to building incorporated into the level change between the garden and terrace. In doing so we have created a strong visual moment within the home where the tree is perfectly framed within the timber window seat.

Like many properties of this period, nobody really used the grand front steps to the front door on the upper ground floor anymore, instead family and guests alike came in via a smaller tradesman’s entrance to the side of the building at ground level. Entering a lower ceiling hall and warren of rooms which were originally designed for servants use.

Now you enter the lower ground floor entrance to the home via a beautiful bespoke decorative steel gate, offering privacy and security to the entrance and rear garden, but also an expectation as to the level of design that one will experience within the home. This leads into the stunning central panelled hallway hiding various functions behind concealed doors.

At the top of the house, we replaced the previous ‘eaves rooms’ at the rear with soaring 2.8m high bedrooms by adding the new zinc clad dormer within the roof space. These bedrooms have a striking warehouse feel with industrial windows and V-groove cladding to all walls.The addition of a tall arched window on the side wall, and adjustments to the previous landing arrangement have opened up a fabulous double height stairwell and brought light into the first floor too, improving the master suite landing at the same time.

Three boys share the top floor and with a single bathroom. To ease tension when time is limited, we designed a bathroom that would allow multiple users to make use of the space at the same time. A large trough sink means that the boys can use the sink at the same time, but the really unique element within this bathroom is two luxury shower cubicles. Set behind reeded crittal doors to offer privacy, two boys can shower simultaneously. No excuses to miss the school bus in this house!