Clapham Extension
A young family in a Victorian terrace needed more room but didn't want to move. The brief: push out the ground floor by four metres, open the kitchen into the garden, and keep the period character at the front of the house.
We stripped the existing lean-to, underpinned the party wall and poured a new slab in the first fortnight. Steel went in on day twelve — a single spanning beam that eliminated the need for a central post, giving the client an unbroken five-metre sight line from hallway to garden.
The new space is finished in polished concrete floors with underfloor heating, with birch-ply joinery wrapping the kitchen run. Three sets of bi-fold doors blur the line between inside and out — the family wanted to feel like they were eating in the garden even in January.
Outside, we laid York stone paving with a built-in planter bench and low-voltage lighting. The planting scheme was kept low-maintenance — lavender, grasses and a single olive tree — to match the client's request for a garden that could survive occasional neglect.
"They turned a dark galley kitchen into the room we actually live in now."— Homeowner, Clapham
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