Located in Tooting Bec, this original Victorian dwelling had predominantly remained un-touched until our clients recently purchased with a view to add their own identity. We were appointed to provide services covering concept design through to completion for a single storey rear extension, loft conversion and internal reconfiguration.
The existing layout at ground floor had a small galley kitchen, large dining room and no WC facilities. By combining the kitchen and dining room and extending to the rear provided a large open plan kitchen dining area with breakfast bar. This also allowed space to be freed up towards the middle of the original property for a WC. Most modern family homes negate the need for separate dining rooms and whilst they can be a luxury they tend to become abandoned spaces only being used once or twice a year. The focus for the rear extension was to provide a large kitchen dining area that interacts socially whilst still providing function. The single storey rear extension allows enough space for a small low maintenance garden. By adding minimalist sliding doors to the garden, this provides easy access to the garden and with large rooflight over allows generous light proportions into the deeper foot print. The light tones of the shaker kitchen and polished concrete floor work in harmony with the exposed stock brickwork. The existing living room is opened up to provide access but the original Victorian features are retained and restored to respect the character of that period. At 1st floor the layout was changed minimally to provide access to the loft conversion and only the existing bathroom was refurbished. This contained an original gravity fed Victorian toilet, rather than replace to a modern WC the original ironworks were sand blasted, repaired and re-sprayed, again respecting the original period of the property.
