Most Victorian terrace houses in Hackney have their kitchen located in the rear outrigger with little or no visual or physical connection to the rear garden.
The owners of the Green House wanted to make the most of the sunny rear garden by relocating the kitchen to the front of the house with the main living space opening on to the rear garden.
A wrap around extension to the rear provides additional space for study and living in the rear extension. The extension is divided into different zones by maintaining the original external walls of the kitchen while creating larger openings in the walls. Internally, a language of clay plaster and bold colours differentiates between new and old walls, and a bespoke deep green metal and timber staircase connects the extension with the kitchen.
Externally, two large glazed pivots doors finished to match the stairs sit within a wall of glazed ceramic tiles.
The kitchen, relocated to the front of the house, was supplied and installed by Uncommon Projects.
