Kitchen-diner extension on a canal-side terrace

The brief

A young family in a Victorian terrace had a galley kitchen, a back yard and an outside toilet. They wanted one room where they could cook, eat and watch the kids play outside.

What we did

• Demolished the outhouse and built a 4-metre side-return and rear extension
• Steel beams to open up the back of the house
• Roof lantern over the dining table and aluminium bifold doors
• Underfloor heating, new drainage and a level threshold to the yard

The result

The ground floor is now one bright room. Building control signed it off first time and the family moved back into the kitchen a week ahead of schedule.