A full refurbishment and rear extension to a Victorian terraced house on Mapledene Road, East London. The owners had a growing family and a house that no longer worked for them — a tight back kitchen, a disconnected dining room, a garden they barely used. The brief was to fix all three in one move: a single ground-floor room that holds the kitchen, the dining table and the family's everyday life, with the garden brought close enough to feel like part of the house.

The extension replaces the original rear return with a single flat-roofed volume, square to the garden, fully glazed across its back wall. A pocket sliding door pulls the corner away in summer; in winter, the same glazing frames the garden as a view to be looked at. Inside, the layout is simple: a long stone-topped island holds the kitchen along one side, a built-in oak bench and table sit along the other. Polished concrete floors run from the kitchen straight out onto the terrace, so the threshold reads as one continuous surface rather than two.