After she lost her life partner, our client had a clear ‘downsize’ brief: to re-design her recent property purchase – a 4-storey Victorian villa that had been rather badly separated into 2 maisonettes. From this she wanted to achieve a lettable unit for her own economic sustainability whilst creating an uplifting double-storey garden apartment in … Continued

Our clients were downsizing to a 3-bedroom early-Victorian house as their final home. Although re-worked in the 1990’s, the property lacked practicality, coherence, connectivity, lightness or heart. This underpinned the agreed brief at the outset. By stripping back the rear and side extensions, we ‘discovered’ the old house. We floated away a new family room … Continued