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Grid meets Brass: Side- and kitchen extension, ground floor re-design.
This imposing early 19 century 3 storey town house provided ample spaces for its owners, but a previously added two storey rear annexe was blocking connections to the rear garden and left an under used residual side return area. After a design process, the final scheme incorporates the side return area and re-invents the kitchen as an object around a pre-existing spiral wine cellar. A new large opening connects to the lush raised rear garden and full width roof glazing brings bright sky light into the kitchen and adjacent reception rooms.
A new bookshelf-framed sliding door arrangement creates long views through the entire ground floor plan and, while allowing a degree of separation when desired, brings the garden visually into the front reception space. A beautiful oak floor links new and old ground floor spaces.
At the rear, the new boundary wall is fully covered by dark finished shelving which perfectly lines up with the full width steel patio doors and roof supports, and together with the matching finished kitchen units, provides centre stage for a luxurious bespoke Brass worktop.
Photos: Agnese Sanvito
