The Collector's Home

The clients owned a ground floor flat (which is part of a subdivided Georgian villa in Pollokshields) which had its kitchen located in a single storey projection into the garden to the rear of the property. It had nowhere to sit, felt disconnected from the rest of the flat, and was surprisingly dark. The location of the dining room turned it into little more than a thoroughfare to the kitchen, and this was exacerbated further by the convoluted route from it to the hall via a lobby.
Loader Monteith proposed that the kitchen was pulled toward the centre of the property into the former dining room, and a direct (glazed) connection made to the hall, so that the kitchen became the convivial centre of the home around which family life revolved. This change to access meant we could form a larder in the old entrance lobby.

The ceiling within the garden projection was removed to expose the roof ties, and a new roof light introduced. Window sills were dropped and a new frameless set of windows were formed to improve connection to the garden outside and to make a bright ‘day’ room. Adjacent to the back door a utility ‘box’ was proposed to house washing machines, boiler, coats, boots and all the clutter associated with family life. This created an open but natural divide between the day room and the kitchen.