our fairly small garden. He put forward three quite different ideas, and we ended up going with an amalgamation of two of them.”
The final design sought to open up the previously
cluttered house – stripping away the ground floor rear facade and internally consolidating the mess of partitions and changes in level, to create a single, open plan kitchen/dining/living space which would be far more conducive to family life.
“By pushing utility and storage spaces to the edge and into the underused garage, as well as extending a modest 2.5 metres out into the garden, even more space was created for a large kitchen-diner,”
explains the project’s architect.
This essentially ‘dissolved’ the interior – offering a continuous view from the front door into the tree-lined rear garden, and Henri’s design for a glass box extension with sliding doors reveals a wide aspect and fills the space with light, while level access and continuous large-format floor tiles reinforce the link with outside.
“I like to think about how people live and, now that I have a son myself, I find I have a particular empathy with clients who have children,” says Henri. “Designing for the needs of families is something I enjoy. For me, it’s important to be fully involved with each project, so
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