It started as a 4 bed room semi indifferent Victorian home in Hertfordshire. Indoors, the kitchen was darkish and disconnected from the residing areas and the conservatory was chilly and beneath utilised. The householders enlisted the assistance of an architect to completely rework the house.
By their very nature of being underground, basement concepts lack mild. However with the assistance from the professionals – and on this case, introducing a glazed wraparound extension – you possibly can rework the darkish and dingy to mild and shiny.
The glazed wraparound extension
(Picture credit score: Future PLC/ Chris Snook)
‘Bringing pure mild into the property introduced an amazing problem,’ explains Christine Peever from Sheldon Peever Architects (opens in new tab). ‘The south dealing with flank wall faces instantly onto the road, so the choice of including home windows was restricted in an effort to stop overlooking. The answer to bringing in additional pure mild was to put in rooflights.’
‘The primary massive rooflight,’ continues Christine, ‘was positioned within the aspect return extension following an identical footprint to the prevailing conservatory. It’s shielded from direct daylight, which vastly will increase mild ranges whereas lowering any potential photo voltaic achieve.
A smaller extension was additionally added with a skinny strip of frameless glass to the south elevation of the home. This association gave us the chance to lift the ceiling peak in these new extensions, enhancing the sense of house and lightweight.’
‘Smaller home windows to the south elevation present pure mild to the prevailing stairwell and hallway,’ provides Christine. ‘In addition they body views of the brand new exterior landscaping. The again of the home has glazing wrapped round which permits the interior areas to totally open up onto the backyard.’
The brand new extension
(Picture credit score: Future PLC/ Chris Snook)
Within the new wraparound glazed extension, sliding doorways open up across the nook eliminating the necessity for cumbersome rails. Flush thresholds and opting for a similar flooring all through creates a seamless relationship between the indoor and outside zones.
Contained in the property, the glazing was designed to go as much as ceiling peak. This maximises mild coming into the house. The sunshine colored limestone kitchen flooring concepts mirror the sunshine on this north dealing with backyard and compliments the rendered end to the exterior partitions.
The kitchen diner
(Picture credit score: Future PLC/ Chris Snook)
A glazed roof floods the kitchen with pure mild, however being north east dealing with ensures the house won’t overheat. The sunshine-coloured kitchen cupboards and flooring assist to bounce mild across the room.
Crittall-style glazing on this space creates a distinct really feel within the kitchen from the remainder of the house. This may be helpful in massive open plan areas as a device to zone areas.
(Picture credit score: Future PLC/ Chris Snook)
The place of the 2 rooflights present a distinction to the pure lighting of the general house. The rooflight over the kitchen provides peak to the house and floods the kitchen with ambient pure mild.
The glazing on the rear creates a direct visible and bodily relationship with the backyard that it beforehand lacked. Using mild colored flooring, and kitchen cabinetry lightens this subterranean house.
The kitchen space
(Picture credit score: Future PLC/ Chris Snook)
They householders particularly selected a frameless roof mild within the kitchen. This was to introduce the most important space of glass doable to maximise the daylight from the south elevation. The highest mild gives subtle lighting to this part of the room and because the roof mild is positioned greater than the ceiling it’s hidden from view.
By positioning this roof mild greater up it protects the room from direct photo voltaic achieve in the summertime months however gives lovely subtle mild all year long. They determined in opposition to home windows right here as a result of place of the extent of the road and overlooking points.
The colored tiled kitchen splashback concepts gives a pop of color to an in any other case impartial color scheme. The timber worktop to the island provides a sense of heat in opposition to the impartial colors scheme. The impartial kitchen color scheme contrasts with the sharpness of the black framed glazing.
The extension glazing
(Picture credit score: FuturePLC/Chris Snook)
Flush thresholds create a greater circulate and blur the road between indoors and outside. They designed the glazing to open up from the nook to create a seamless relationship with the totally different outside areas. Using the identical flooring within the outside areas blurs the indoor outside boundary and makes the inside really feel greater.
The glazing goes all the way in which as much as the ceiling to make the house really feel greater and reinforce the idea of blurring the boundary with the outside.
The property earlier than works started
(Picture credit score: Future PLC/ Chris Snook)
Concentrate on: Sliding doorways
Architect Christine Peever from Sheldon Peever Studio provides us the lowdown…
- Select your quantity: Contemplate what number of doorways and tracks you need to set up, taking into consideration there’s all the time going to be a share of the glazing that may’t open. For instance, introducing 4 doorways sliding on two tracks means a most of fifty% of the world might be opened.
- Keep flush: Create flush thresholds as this makes a distinction to transferring between the indoors and outside. You will want to incorporate some drainage alongside the flush threshold to empty rainwater away. This drainage may also be flush and both made a characteristic of or minimised visually.
- Stretch it up: Taking glazing to the ceiling elongates an area, maximises views out of the interior areas and lets extra mild in.
- Go for slender frames: Think about using slim frames in order that when the sliding doorways are closed you’ll have as skinny as doable frames and a extra uninterrupted view to the outside. A lot of these methods are usually not as costly as they as soon as have been.
- Aluminium is problem free: Other than cleansing out tracks and the brink drainage each on occasion, aluminium sliding doorways are upkeep free.
Extra phrases by Caroline Foster
,
