A kitchen prolongation can be a ideal approach to supplement space to your home. Here are some box studies of readers’ kitchen extensions to give we ideas and impulse for your own.
Victorian home: Light-filled extension
Charlie and Pip Henderson’s kitchen in Sydenham, south-east London, was standard of a space we find in an unmodernised Victorian residence – tiny and dark, with antiquated units and roughly no perspective of a garden. The space was serve compromised by dual vast funnel breasts and an outward WC that projected into a dilemma of a room.
With assistance from Architect Your Home (0800 849 8505 Architect-yourhome.com), a national network of architects that specialises in home alleviation projects, Charlie and Pip Henderson have remade a space. They demolished an aged lean-to prolongation that ran alongside a kitchen, combined an 8m opening in a side wall, private a WC and funnel breasts and combined a new section prolongation that has roughly doubled a distance of a space.
They have also non-stop adult a behind of a skill with a further of folding shifting doors to emanate entrance to a garden and a new terrace. The £50,000 project, that took 15 months to complete, has resulted in a good new light-filled space, where a integrate adore spending time with their dual children.
ABOVE: The Hendersons’ section prolongation is in gripping with a aged partial of a residence and has done a kitchen some-more spacious. Folding shifting doors lead to a newly combined terrace.
Photographs Courtesy of Architect Your Home
Terraced house: Side lapse extension
When engineer Cathie Curran (07966 343556 cc@flexihouse.com) extended her Victorian terraced residence in north-west London, she incited a former kitchen into a tiny cosy room, application room and WC. A new side prolongation has combined a galley-style kitchen within a side lapse and an spontaneous family dining space during a behind unaware a garden.
The strange executive dining room is still a grave dining area, though a assign walls have been removed. It is now open to a new kitchen and a sitting room during a front, permitting light to fill a skill from Sky-Frame roof lights above a kitchen and roughly frameless shifting potion doors opposite a rear.
To mangle adult a space, there‘s a shifting frosted potion doorway to apart a kitchen from a grave dining and vital areas. The plan cost £1,827 per m².
ABOVE: Adding an prolongation in a side lapse and to a behind of a residence allows light to fill a length of a property.
Photographs Courtesy of Lyndon Douglas and Nina Maklin
A bungalow: Extra level extension
When Jayne Blakeman and Tim Morrison extended and redesigned their 1960s bungalow in Nottinghamshire, they combined some-more space in a kitchen by stealing and rebuilding a shoal pitched roof to supplement an additional storey. As a bungalow was built into a tilted site, they put their new kitchen upstairs within a roof space in sequence to get limit light. The kitchen is related to a tilted garden around a brief lifted rug that is accessed around folding shifting doors. Renovating a whole skill cost £140,000.
ABOVE: Off-the-shelf kitchen units are teamed with MDF doors and drawer fronts, that were done and spray-finished by a internal paint emporium to grasp a ideal shade. The Quartz kitchen worktops are by Unicom, a walnut breakfast bar is by Norfolk Oak and a flooring is by Amtico.
Photographs Courtesy of Jeremy Phillips
Detached home: Open-plan extension
Tony and Katie Jobson motionless to reinstate a normal kitchen in their 1980s home in Hampshire with a modern-style kitchen prolongation desirous by Italian design. They wanted a splendid and atmospheric open-plan kitchen, dining and vital area that would be a heart for family life and entertaining. When a new folding shifting doors are pulled back, a tiled flooring appears to couple a inside vital space with a outside, while a skylight draws in lots of healthy light. Architect Apropos (0800 328 0033 Apropos-tectonic.com) says a 30m² prolongation like this during today’s prices would be labelled during £28,000 (£933 per m²), including VAT.
ABOVE: Influenced by contemporary Italian kitchen design, a Jobsons wanted a matter kitchen though it also indispensable to fit family life. An spontaneous vital area contrasts stylishly with their engineer kitchen in a new extension.
Photographs Courtesy of Apropos
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