Botanic Avenue

While the rear of the exiting house has good orientation, a previous, low quality rear extension (which provided a no-longer-required accessible bathroom) resulted in a restricted kitchen, cut off light, and severed the connection between the main living spaces and the garden. In order to minimise costs and use of materials, the new design reuses the existing extension’s footprint and parts of its external walls. The only additional space is a small new projection at the rear of the existing living room.

The updated kitchen space is located in the footprint of the previous bathroom extension, now opened into the rear dining room. A new high level window facing the side passage has been provided in this space in order too access east light in the mornings. The opposite side of the kitchen and the slightly extended rear dining room are finished externally with an L-shaped glazed screen which encloses an external patio space.

The interior of the new kitchen is primarily finish with timber – birch plywood kitchen joinery, and white deal roof structure, turning the kitchen into a warm niche to one side of the dining room.

The new spatial arrangement also permits space in for a new ground floor WC and utility room between the kitchen and the stairs.

The external finish is a smooth render applied to external insulation. This arrangement allowed the original extension walls to be re-used and to be brought up to a high level of thermal performance.