Blackheath

To sit, cook and contemplate - as if amongst the garden…to enhance the rituals of everyday life…

 

The work here extends and remodels the kitchen, living room and garden courtyard of an Edwardian house in South London. The intention was to open up and link the kitchen and living spaces to the garden and create a harmonious union between different types of space and function: traditional and modern, indoor and outdoor, cooking and living. Embedding the subtle and playful echoes of the house’s existing traditional details into a new space. 

 The timber frame was made in our London workshop along with bespoke in built furniture including a window seat, cupboard storage space, a work desk and a day bed. Between the functions of the kitchen and the day bed is a wood stove to keep the space warm in the winter months.

 
 
 
 
 
 

“The best extension I have ever seen for its harmony and continuum”

A visitor at Architecture Open House London 2012

 
 
 
 
 

Material list

 European Oak, concrete tiles, reclaimed yellow stock brick, black rubber, travertine stone, insitu- cast concrete, sheep’s wool insulation…..