This is an example of a large contemporary kitchen/diner in Hertfordshire with flat-panel cabinets, grey cabinets, marble worktops, grey splashback, marble splashback, stainless steel appliances, an island, grey floors and grey worktops.

Design ideas for a large contemporary galley open plan kitchen in London with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, wood worktops, brown splashback, wood splashback, light hardwood flooring, an island, beige floors, brown worktops and a submerged sink.

Photo of a large contemporary metal railing balcony in Milan with a roof extension and fencing.

Denis Svartz
Design ideas for a large contemporary back terrace in Lyon with a potted garden and a roof extension.

Lincoln Road is our renovation and extension of a Victorian house in East Finchley, North London. It was driven by the will and enthusiasm of the owners, Ed and Elena, who's desire for a stylish and contemporary family home kept the project focused on achieving their goals.

Our main bathroom at our #NewSpacesxMonash project is simple in design, but packs a punch on functionality and space. Storage to service three kids as they grow was imperative, so the bathroom features a massive 1800mm custom vanity by @topshelf joinery including tall cabinet. A ‘wet-area’ design encompasses both the back-to-wall bath and shower space, with a hand-held shower positioned between for ease of cleaning, especially for the kids in the bath on hair washing night! This open shower design also means less shower screens to keep clean

Ryan Cowan
This is an example of a large and blue nautical semi-detached house in Oxfordshire with three floors, wood cladding and a hip roof.

Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

Behind the rolling hills of Arthurs Seat sits “The Farm”, a coastal getaway and future permanent residence for our clients. The modest three bedroom brick home will be renovated and a substantial extension added. The footprint of the extension re-aligns to face the beautiful landscape of the western valley and dam. The new living and dining rooms open onto an entertaining terrace. The distinct roof form of valleys and ridges relate in level to the existing roof for continuation of scale. The new roof cantilevers beyond the extension walls creating emphasis and direction towards the natural views.

A couple with two young children appointed FPA to refurbish a large semi detached Victorian house in Wimbledon Park. The property, arranged on four split levels, had already been extended in 2007 by the previous owners. The clients only wished to have the interiors updated to create a contemporary family room. However, FPA interpreted the brief as an opportunity also to refine the appearance of the existing side extension overlooking the patio and devise a new external family room, framed by red cedar clap boards, laid to suggest a chevron floor pattern. The refurbishment of the interior creates an internal contemporary family room at the lower ground floor by employing a simple, yet elegant, selection of materials as the instrument to redirect the focus of the house towards the patio and the garden: light coloured European Oak floor is paired with natural Oak and white lacquered panelling and Lava Stone to produce a calming and serene space. The solid corner of the extension is removed and a new sliding door set is put in to reduce the separation between inside and outside. Photo by Gianluca Maver

A creative approach to volume and placement proved key to unlocking green belt and planning restrictions for the extension to the Coach House. Surplus outbuildings were demolished and their footprint redistributed into the extension of the main house, while the material palette and site layout respect the style of a traditional farmstead courtyard. Double-height glazed links visually separate newer elements, minimising the impact on the original listed structure and enhancing views to the surrounding countryside.

This outdoor kitchen area is an extension of the tv cabinet within the dwelling. The exterior cladding to the residence continues onto the joinery fronts. The concrete benchtop provides a practical yet stylish solution as a BBQ benchtop

Two storey rear extension to a Victorian property that sits on a site with a large level change. The extension has a large double height space that connects the entrance and lounge areas to the Kitchen/Dining/Living and garden below. The space is filled with natural light due to the large expanses of crittall glazing, also allowing for amazing views over the landscape that falls away. Extension and house remodel by Butterfield Architecture Ltd.

Inspiration for a large contemporary back terrace in Melbourne with a bbq area and a roof extension.

This is an example of a large rural balcony in Brisbane with a roof extension and feature lighting.

Suzanne Black photography
Inspiration for a large eclectic l-shaped kitchen/diner in Edinburgh with shaker cabinets, blue cabinets, ceramic splashback, an island, composite countertops and blue splashback.

This is an example of a large contemporary galley kitchen/diner in Surrey with a built-in sink, shaker cabinets, blue cabinets, white splashback, ceramic splashback, stainless steel appliances, medium hardwood flooring, an island, brown floors and black worktops.

Master En-Suite
Design ideas for a large classic ensuite bathroom in Hertfordshire with shaker cabinets, blue cabinets, a freestanding bath, a wall mounted toilet, white walls, porcelain flooring, a built-in sink, marble worktops, white floors and white worktops.

Large and black contemporary two floor detached house in Melbourne with wood cladding, a flat roof, a metal roof and board and batten cladding.