Out to the back
After buying a typical three-bed 1930s house in South Wales, Aga and Andrew Tomaszek turned the property from tired and dated into a small family home suitable for two professionals to work from home. Builders knocked through the front and back reception rooms and extended along the rear of the house.
This provided a large L-shaped kitchen/dining/living area that would also house their home office. They fitted their own kitchen (from DIY Kitchens) and installed a utility and a shower room in place of the old one. Four-metre-wide bifold doors and a flat rooflight bathe the new, stylish space in light.
Country charm
When extending their 19th-century cottage, Emma and Guy Silver connected the new, light-filled kitchen to their Mediterranean-inspired garden. "The aim was to make the room as spacious as we could, with bifold doors onto the garden.
We didn't want to overlook our neighbours, so we decided not to have windows on the far wall and instead to install a single long run of units to give us the storage space we'd been missing, with an island in front," says Emma.
This story is from the June 2022 edition of Homebuilding & Renovating.
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