Wraparound Extension

The brief was simple to say and harder to deliver: more space in the kitchen without swallowing the garden. The existing kitchen was small, dark, and cut off from the rest of the ground floor — the kind of layout that made cooking feel like a chore rather than something to enjoy.

We designed a single-storey wraparound extension that reworks the side return and rear of the house into one open kitchen-diner, with full-width bi-fold doors onto the garden. A structural steel beam let us remove the old dividing wall entirely, so the space now reads as one room rather than three cramped ones.

The build ran for 12 weeks, on the timeline we quoted at the outset. The family stayed in the house throughout, with dust and disruption kept to the working area.