Contemporary cladding
The brief given to Studio Webster Dale was to transform this south London five-bed terrace into a light-filled home with bold and cohesive spaces. The owners were increasingly unhappy with the dark, narrow kitchen, with access to the garden only via a poor-quality extension housing the utility room, and they wanted a bold, open-plan space and were prepared to invest in high-quality self-finished materials.
The resulting copper-clad rear extension replaces an existing outrigger with slimline sliding doors, deeply inset with cedar-clad reveals, naturally shading the end elevation and allowing uninterrupted views to the garden and the fields beyond. The new kitchen centres around a polished concrete island, matching the concrete flooring, which runs out to the patio beyond. This solidity is offset with delicate light fittings and playful flashes of copper on
