Falmouth Road, Bishopston, Bristol

The original 1950s bathroom extension to the house was both ugly and inefficient (single skin brick and asbestos roof). Furthermore, it cut off the garden from the house – the only distant view of the garden was from the French doors to the dining room.

The new design moved the bathroom upstairs, demolished the extension and rebuilt with a new extension, this time the full width of the plot.

Now the kitchen has a direct view of the garden through the 4.8m wide bifold doors.

The dining room now has an exciting view of a courtyard in the foreground, the new garden room in the midground and the garden in the background.

The stereotypical solution involving glassing-in the courtyard would have left the diningroom darker than before and only gained a narrow slot. Leaving this open adds interest and maintains natural light.

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