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For your #morningcoffee perusal: our latest planning submission in Herne Hill. Our clients had recently moved back to London, and wanted a subtly contemporary extension along with a full refurbishment of their home.
To maintain the subtle, wood-led design, we've designed a pair of matching ground floor and loft extensions in complimentary cladding.
On the ground floor the rear extension has a vaulted roof leading to a 4m high skylight, surrounded internally with ...
Oct 23
Happy Monday folks! We've noticed you rather like our sketch designs and #3d models, so here's something a bit different to start the week.
For this project in Bromley, our clients tasked us with turning a 1950s brick pig farmer's bungalow into a gently contemporary new home, more befitting the green belt setting. Swipe to the end for the before photo!
Having successfully secured permitted development approval for a second storey, our next design ...
Oct 18
We're finishing the week with this gorgeous new design in Peckham, which we just recently submitted for planning permission.
Another one for our crittall window lovers, the rear extension is part of a full ground floor refurbishment of a semi detached house.
The crittall screen is set into a softly curved brick surround. We've followed these curves in the interior too, with a shapely ceiling that meets with a long, full-width skylight. ...
Oct 16
We designed this bespoke staircase with floating treads and half-helix steel balustrades for our client's split-level apartment in Chelsea.
Hidden below is the master bedroom, which draws in natural light from the small lower-ground floor courtyard beyond.
Photography by @guylockwoodphotography
Oct 13
A sunny interior for a Monday afternoon!
This is the interior view of our previous post - our Art Deco collaboration with @kn_designs_uk in Beckenham, South London.
The circular skylights and up-and-over window are in full view in this one, punctuating the angles and curves of the walls with natural light.
Photography by @guylockwoodphotography
Oct 11
Last view of the week: the gorgeous curved brick facade and crittall French windows that lead into the extension of this Art Deco house in Beckenham.
Completed in 2018, this project was a collaboration with our architect partners @kn_designs_uk. We created a spacious kitchen-diner and living room come playroom, to make more comfortable living spaces for a growing family.
The extended home is flooded with natural light from symmetrically placed crittalls, a wide up-and-over ...
Oct 9
Part of our work as architects is to make our designs fit together smoothly in three-dimensional space: including at key points such as entryways, halls and doors to the outside.
This project in Beckenham, South London, marries together the new ground floor kitchen-diner extension with the existing home. Combining raised, lowered and pitched ceiling heights is no easy task, and inevitably requires some ingenuity to keep things as simple as possible.
By retaining a ...
Oct 8
Part of the joy in reconfiguring the floorpan of existing buildings comes from opening up and brightening the space.
In this project in Crystal Palace, South London, we created an open plan series of living spaces, wrapped around three sides of a courtyard garden.
Wood-framed glazed doors lead out onto the garden, while also illuminating the spaces within. And most importantly, the spaces still retain their own identity, flowing from kitchen to dining to playroom ...
Oct 7
Not all views and passageways need to be long: this view is from the restoration of a Grade II listed pièd-à-terre flat in Notting Hill that we completed in 2019.
The open plan kitchen diner leads through to the bedroom and bathroom beyond. We designed joinery to maximise storage and complement the light, airy feel of the rest of the apartment.
Oct 7
Perspective doesn't have to be showy.
This view from the hallway into the utility room from our project in East Dulwich reveals the porthole window. You can catch a glimpse of the wildlife garden beyond!
With cork floors and reclaimed doors, this project beautifully unites with the age of the house - a 1950s former council home. It's still one of our favourites and we're stunned at what was achievable on a relatively low budget. Swipe ...
Oct 6
London terraces are often long and narrow. Historically, this made the centre of the home pretty dark!
So part of our job as architects is to open up narrow terraced dwellings, drawing in natural light from wide glazing and skylights.
This long view is care of our recently completed project in Tulse Hill, South London. The rear extension with sections of recessed rooflights opens out to a patio terrace with steps up to to the rest of the garden beyond.
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Oct 5
Happy Monday! We're running a series of posts this week themed around perspective and long views.
Our key architectural principles are air, light and volume. When we develop designs for our clients, we focus on ventilation, ease of movement and perspective: this is technical as well as intuitive design work!
We do this always to improve quality of life, for the lifetime of our buildings.
This long view from the master bedroom through to the ...
Oct 4
This morning's #coffeefeature is from our recently completed project in #StJohnsWood. That armchair looks like the perfect place for five minute's peace before the hurley-burley of the weekend begins.
Photography by @guylockwoodphotography
Contractor @pasklondon
Oct 2
We thought we'd end the week with this glorious view of.... an ice cream van depot! This whole-house refurbishment, upper storey and ground floor rear extension project in Wandsworth has a sharp-looking loft. Swipe left and you'll see the view from the ground up.
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#loftdesign #loftstyle #livingspaces #skyview
#enjoyingtheview #ilookup #housearchitecture #rooftoppers #igarchitecture #cloudspotting #wandsworth ...
Oct 1
This #throwbackthursday post comes from a feasibility study we produced in 2016. For this development of 8 houses in South London, we were inspired by socially engaged architects like @peterbarber12 . Access to green space was paramount as part of the design process: we introduced a shelved wildflower roof to the second floor to 'green' the development from the top down.
Sep 30
Last week we caught this glimpse of a dramatic sky through the rooflights of our project in Denmark Hill. The clean angles are deeply aesthetically pleasing - and the lighting will only enhance that starlit view at night.
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#skylight #rooflight #glassroof #rearextension #glassarchitecture #skylights #lookup #southlondon
#lightingdesign #lightingideas #architecturallighting #lightingdecor #lightdesign #underconstruction
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Sep 30
These #workinprogress images are from a recently commissioned project in Herne Hill, South London.
The ground floor wraparound extension creates a built-in dining area, with exposed rafters under the hipped roof to the rear.
The generous raised planter installed beneath the bifold glazing means you can reach out to trim your herbs for supper! And it creates a little more biodiversity to enrich the garden.
The loft conversion adds a...
Sep 29
We're invested in building local community networks for business. So we're delighted to be sponsors for the Pay It Forward fund, set up by our accountants and business coach, @co_accounting
Co- has established a Pay It Forward fund with the intention of encouraging and supporting young people in South London to get started in business.
Read more: https://co-accounting.co.uk/blog/pay-it-forward
Sep 28
We've not featured this cute little project for a while - but given the abrupt change in the season, we thought all of us could do with a little sunshine yellow in our lives. The gorgeously pigmented tiles are care of @imolaceramica. Happy #monday folks!
Photography by @guylockwoodphotography
Sep 27
We've got into the habit of posting sunlit #morningcoffee spots from our projects on #Saturday mornings.
This one from our project in Highgate, North London, combines a wide window seat overlooking the garden, with shimmering Danish brick to the rear of this high-ceilinged kitchen-diner extension that runs the full width of the substantial Victorian terrace. Feeling the #saturdayvibes from here...
Photography by @guylockwoodphotography
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Sep 25
Happy Friday! We here to remind you that, if you like what you see on our insta feed and you want to learn more about our projects and process, we have a brochure (in hard copy and digital) that we can send you. Send us a DM with your name and address (or email address) and we'll pop one in the post to you.
Sep 24
After 6 months of careful negotiation, we now have listed building and planning consent to restore a dilapidated Grade II-listed townhouse to its former glory.
Aside from the internal works we’ve imaginatively rethought the rear garden with stone seating and a fire pit. A peaceful haven with stepped terraces to make the most of the garden's connection to the rear of the house.
Sep 22
We're pleased to see our new Herne Hill project win planning permission first time round! Looking forward to seeing those lovely deep green tiles in the flesh when construction begins in the new year.
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#3dmodelling #sketchupmodel #3d #3dmodels #3dmodeling #greentile #texturedwalls ...
Sep 21
There's a distinctly autumnal feeling in the air here at Oldfield Towers. So how about this as a #mondaymotivation for changing up your home? We installed this clean, minimalist woodburning stove when we redesigned and extended a large 1930s semi-detached home in Richmond. Perfect for getting cosy as we pivot into the colder months.
Photography by @guylockwoodphotography
Sep 20
