A very specific brief was given with the space to be a very contemporary entertainment area that both complemented the existing garden and house.
Inspiration for a medium sized and brown contemporary rear extension in London with wood cladding and a pitched roof.

Nathalie Priem Photography
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary back patio steps in London with concrete slabs and no cover.

Photo of a large contemporary rear extension in London with mixed cladding and a hip roof.

Ros Kavanagh
Large contemporary house exterior in Dublin with mixed cladding.

This detached Victorian house was extended to accommodate the needs of a young family with three small children. The programme was organized into two distinctive structures: the larger and higher volume is placed at the back of the house to face the garden and make the best use of the south orientation and to accommodate a large Family Room open to the new Kitchen. A longer and thinner volume, only 1.15m wide, stands to the western side of the house and accommodates a Toilet, a Utility and a dining booth facing the Family Room. All the functions that are housed in the secondary volume have direct access either from the original house or the rear extension, thus generating a hierarchy of served and servant volumes, a relationship that is homogeneous to that between the house and the extension. The timber structures, while distinctive in their proportions, are connected by a shallow volume that doubles as a bench to create an architectural continuum and to emphasize the effect of a secondary volume wrapped around a primary one. While the extension makes use of a modern idiom, so that it is clearly distinguished from the original house and so that the history of its development becomes immediately apparent, the size of the red cedar cladding boards, left untreated to allow a natural silvering process, matches that of the Victorian brickwork to bind house and extension together. As the budget did not make possible the use a bespoke profile, an off-the-shelf board was selected and further grooved at mid point to recreate the brick pattern of the façade. A tall and slender pivoting door, positioned at the boundary between the original house and the new intervention, allows a direct view of the garden from the front of the house and facilitates an innovative relationship with the outside. Photo: Gianluca Maver

A glass extension to a grade II listed cottage with specialist glazing design and install by IQ Glass.
Photo of a medium sized and beige country brick house exterior in London with three floors and a hip roof.

A split level rear extension, clad with black zinc and cedar battens. Narrow frame sliding doors create a flush opening between inside and out, while a glazed corner window offers oblique views across the new terrace. Inside, the kitchen is set level with the main house, whilst the dining area is level with the garden, which creates a fabulous split level interior. This project has featured in Grand Designs and Living Etc magazines. Photographer: David Butler

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Inspiration for a medium sized and beige contemporary rear house exterior in London with three floors, mixed cladding, a flat roof and a mixed material roof.

Yves Desbuquois
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary two floor house exterior in Clermont-Ferrand with mixed cladding.

Donal Murphy
Design ideas for a small and multi-coloured contemporary bungalow extension in Dublin with mixed cladding.

Medium sized and beige contemporary brick and rear house exterior in London with three floors.

Will Pryce
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary two floor brick and rear extension in London with a hip roof.

Fine House Photography
Photo of a medium sized and multi-coloured contemporary brick terraced house in London with three floors, a pitched roof and a tiled roof.

A 19th Century farm complex in the middle of Dartmoor National Park, Devon. This farmhouse and its associated barns were in much need of refurbishment and renovation. The brief was to create a new large family home, combining the Farmhouse and the Attached Barn with a contemporary glass extension between. Ancillary accommodation for guests and parties would be provided within the former milking parlour barn. Partial demolition removed the 1950’s extensions and attached garage. The farmhouse now boasts 4 large bedrooms with ensuites, sitting room, dining room and a generous kitchen/living area within the ‘Glass box’. This light-weight metal and glass extension utilised glazing systems of the highest quality and technology, and allows panoramic views of the surrounding grounds and the park beyond and creates an axis of movement and light through the existing buildings. Each sliding glass panel, supplied and installed by Cantifix that forms this extension are 3.8m high and 2m wide; at the time the upper limits of what was achievable.

Medium sized and white contemporary rear house exterior in Other with wood cladding.

Design ideas for a large contemporary patio in Oxfordshire.

A 19th Century farm complex in the middle of Dartmoor National Park, Devon. This farmhouse and its associated barns were in much need of refurbishment and renovation. The brief was to create a new large family home, combining the Farmhouse and the Attached Barn with a contemporary glass extension between. Ancillary accommodation for guests and parties would be provided within the former milking parlour barn. Partial demolition removed the 1950’s extensions and attached garage. The farmhouse now boasts 4 large bedrooms with ensuites, sitting room, dining room and a generous kitchen/living area within the ‘Glass box’. This light-weight metal and glass extension utilised glazing systems of the highest quality and technology, and allows panoramic views of the surrounding grounds and the park beyond and creates an axis of movement and light through the existing buildings. Each sliding glass panel, supplied and installed by Cantifix that forms this extension are 3.8m high and 2m wide; at the time the upper limits of what was achievable. The old milking parlour has been converted to ancillary accommodation. Half of the existing structure was demolished and replaced with a contemporary green oak timber frame, seemingly ‘emerging’ out of the monolithic barn. A new zinc roof unifies the structure.

Graham Gaunt
Photo of a medium sized and red contemporary brick semi-detached house in London with three floors and a flat roof.

Architectes: Atelier 48.2 Photographe: Paul KOZLOWSKI
Design ideas for a large and beige contemporary two floor glass house exterior in Rennes with a pitched roof.