Parkside, Wimbledon

In a phased project this 1900’s house was refurbished and remodelled: firstly to provide a sequence of dressings rooms and bathrooms to the main bedrooms, then extended with a new gymnasium and finally a new extension containing a family room linked to a refurbished kitchen. The extension filled an underused shady courtyard at the back of the house helping to balance the composition of the rear elevation and reconnecting the main body of the house with a direct route to the back garden.

The family room establishes a new relationship between the house and garden through the use of 3 metre high glazed sliding doors. Carefully placed planar rooflights provide generous daylighting deep into the interior and also provide views upwards of the original house. Dark and richly figured stone floors contrast with precise precast concrete benches and a flush detailed Corian storage wall; an aquarium is inset in this wall to act as a window to a timber lined cloakroom tucked in behind.