Kenton Road

The design was thoughtfully developed to create a contemporary, light-filled and beautifully detailed family home. Ideas were originally tested by sketching and model-making, drawing on the influence of Mackintosh’s Hill House, where chunky timbers dominate, bringing warmth, rhythm and scale to the heart of the home.

Introducing the timber elements allowed the house to develop a new architectural language, which is bold yet sensitively crafted alongside the existing. Adaptations are deliberately non-invasive, to the extent that the building’s footprint is not extended.

Space was reconfigured to work harder. The ground-floor living space was rationalised and retrofitted, reconnecting space horizontally and unifying the rear elevation with a rich, oiled iroko timber loggia. This provides screening to the south-east-facing elevation. The resulting kitchen-diner is generously proportioned to become a scale that is in keeping with the rest of the house, whilst reconnecting access and views on to the garden, rain or shine.

Utility room, home office and an additional en-suite bedroom and bathrooms are subtly introduced, as if they were always part of the house. Intervention is modest but the resulting home is opulent, generous and crafted.

The rhythm of the timber loggia is repeated internally in a slatted oak staircase, allowing north light to flood into the heart of the home. Glazed screens and moments throughout the retrofit echo the same language, bringing continuity and composition to new elements. Overall, a spacious, bright and generous home has been created, that is rich in detail, modest in intervention and has significantly improved the comfort and well-being of those who live in it.

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