One extension or two?

Two separate rear extensions making one family space.

Why is this special?

Extending sideways and backward separately makes a sheltered outdoor dining space and defined spaces inside with minimal loss of garden.

The Challenge

When thinking about a kitchen extension it’s easy to assume a straight row of glass doors across the back of the house. But we try never to assume. This family, like many, wanted a multifunc-tional family space, but loved the ‘suntrap’ made by the original ‘L’ shape at the back of the house.

Our Solution

The answer was one big room but two extensions, each contributing to that big all purposes space. Extension One fills in the original ‘L’, forming a rectangular kitchen dining room, with doors direct to the 3 sided sun trap and outside table at one end and to a concealed laundry and cloakroom within the original dining room at the other. Extension Two behind this forms an identifiable ‘snug’ for the TV and sofa so often left adrift within a bigger kitchen. And because the terrace is beside, not behind this, garden access is direct and far less lawn was lost.

The Results

All functions you want from a back extension, each defined yet all linked to the garden, plus a bo-nus outside dining area. The large lantern brings plenty of light to the inner part of the house, whilst the pitched roofed snug protects the neighbour’s daylight.