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Design ideas for a large industrial galley kitchen/diner in London with an integrated sink, flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets, concrete worktops, brick splashback, stainless steel appliances, concrete flooring, an island and grey floors.
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Alberts House Ltd
Photo of a farmhouse bathroom in London with a claw-foot bath, a two-piece toilet, white tiles, metro tiles, white walls, mosaic tile flooring, a wall-mounted sink and grey floors.
Levell Design
When your lot is small consider using every ich of space. The rear of this garage was created not only as a drainage area but the perfect place to pot up your seasonal flower changes. The driveway hosted one of the sunny places on the property to create the rose garden which is the perfect blend of 7 different varieties. Also do not discount your electrical meter area. Here a cabinet is created to house them with beautiful fountain nearby to distract your sight.
Ian Dunn Woodwork & Design
Photo of a large contemporary galley open plan kitchen in London with shaker cabinets, an island, a submerged sink, white cabinets, white splashback, metro tiled splashback, stainless steel appliances, grey floors and white worktops.
Clifton SMR
Graham Gaunt
Design ideas for a medium sized and white contemporary two floor render and rear house exterior in London.
Design ideas for a medium sized and white contemporary two floor render and rear house exterior in London.
YARD Architects
This project inverts the typical side-return extension typology. By extending only to the rear of an end of terrace Victorian house, the side-return space becomes an external courtyard which acts as the focal point of the entire ground floor.
This project started from a Don’t Move, Improve consultation in 2017. Here, Natasja and Grant arrived with two young children, looking for more living space, without any fully formed ideas as to what this might be. Initial design exercises highlighted the courtyard option as a strong proposal. A tall flank wall to the north meant that overlooking was not an issue. The path of the sun also meant that the existing side-return space was the sunniest in the house for most of the year, benefiting from south-westerly sun, otherwise obscured to the rear garden due to the tall boundary walls. It made perfect sense to extend into the rear garden and retain the side-return as a courtyard suntrap.
The huge amount of height in the back half of the existing house was put to good use with an extensive plywood bookshelf on the north flank, with cupboards below to store toys for the children. The slim white structure of the extension was referenced in the design of the balustrades and new curved steps leading down from the formal living space at the front of the house.
The kitchen roof was designed predominantly around the concept of allowing existing views of the trees and direct sunlight through into this courtyard. Large plywood fins provide both structural support and a softening and reflecting of the light within the kitchen space. Although the roof of the kitchen is almost entirely fully glazed, the plywood feels both warm and massive, adding a comforting weight to what is otherwise a lightweight insertion.
The extension is entirely timber framed, constructed using prefabricated panels slotted together inside the existing brickwork boundary walls. This light touch approach had great environmental and cost benefits. The composition of the main courtyard elevation of the extension continued the sense of the lightweight and is inspired by minimalist Japanese architecture – also beloved of the clients, one of whom was Dutch and the other half Japanese.
Full height sliding glass doors to two sides of the courtyard were essential to provide fluidity in the flow and usability of the space, with a sliding window at worktop level in the kitchen providing a servery to the outside.
Additional work throughout the house included a refit of the master en-suite bathroom, wc, and family bathroom on the top floor. The master en-suite incorporated a deep Japanese soaking tub, and white oiled oak joinery which continued the language established on the ground floor.
SxS Design & Build Ltd
Simon Maxwell
This is an example of a contemporary rear extension in London with three floors and mixed cladding.
This is an example of a contemporary rear extension in London with three floors and mixed cladding.
Build Space London Ltd
Inspiration for a contemporary galley kitchen/diner in London with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, medium hardwood flooring and an island.
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Chris Snook
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary back patio in London.
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary back patio in London.
JNJ Building Services Ltd
Photo of a bohemian dining room in London with white walls, concrete flooring and grey floors.
MOTIVO DESIGN
Photo of a classic galley kitchen in Cardiff with a submerged sink, shaker cabinets, beige cabinets, white splashback, stainless steel appliances, medium hardwood flooring, an island, brown floors and white worktops.
YARD Architects
We were asked to resolve a problem with the layout of a house in the Whitehall Park Conservation Area in Islington. The house had wonderful high ceilings and well proportioned reception rooms, but the kitchen was very compromised. It was housed in an old side return extension and accessed through a warren of other rooms. It was too small and low, didn’t relate well to the dining room and was cut off from the other rooms in the house, accessed down a small flight of steps. The owners wanted a generous, multifunctional family space where they could enjoy time together.
Our solution was to take out the side wall of the rear reception room, reconstruct the side return completely and join the two spaces to create a lateral kitchen dining space. Behind this space the old dining room, with less access to natural light, became a utility room, cloakroom and music room. We flipped the kitchen into the old reception room and lowered the floor to create one seamless room level with the garden. This gave the kitchen a huge ceiling height and meant we could increase the size of the French doors which open out onto the garden, making them very grand and a real focal point of the room.
The extension itself has a fully glazed roof to bring the most amount of light into the space, including electrically opening rooflights for ventilation. To avoid the dining room being overlooked by the neighbours upper windows, we designed a series of louvres made of oak to line the underside of the roof. These allow filtered light into the extension whilst maintaining a sense of privacy and enclosure. They are openable to allow the glass to be cleaned and we used them to inform the rest of the interior. The extension contrasts to the more traditional kitchen area with its high ceilings and ornate cornice, using oak panels as a lining around the walls. The opening into the kitchen forms a datum line, above which the oak is clad in battens to create texture and tie into design of the louvres.
A bench containing storage runs all the way around the dining room and a large pivot window frames views from the music room into the garden. The window can be fully opened to connect the dining room to the outside. The rear wall of the dining room is finished in natural clay plaster, continuing the warm earthy tones of the oak cladding.
Externally we used a traditional yellow stock brick so the extension feels like it belongs to the house, but we used the brick in a sawtooth bond, laying them at 45 degrees to create a triangular pattern which create interesting shadows throughout the day.
uvarchitects
Our clients wanted a new, spacious kitchen in their late Victorian property and asked us to design a ground floor side return extension. In addition to the kitchen extension, the clients asked us to draw up plans for a loft conversion which would include a new master bedroom with an en suite.
Although the loft conversion was allowed under permitted development laws, full planning consent was needed for the kitchen extension. Lambeth is a notoriously tricky borough in which to secure planning consent, but with 20 years of experience working in the borough we secured planning approval for a side return extension.
The extension incorporates a strip of frameless glass which runs from floor to ceiling at a right angle to the side of the house, ensuring maximum light penetration at all times of day. Bi-fold folding doors open onto a large terrace from the dining area.
ARCHEA Ltd
This is an example of a contemporary kitchen/dining room in London with white walls and light hardwood flooring.
David Money Architects
Taran Wilkhu
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary living room in London with grey floors and feature lighting.
Design ideas for a medium sized contemporary living room in London with grey floors and feature lighting.
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Resi Design Ltd.
Inspiration for a medium sized contemporary living room in London with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, brown floors and a chimney breast.
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