Rangers House.

01 — The Brief

Opening up the ground floor — systematically.

Rangers is the extension and remodelling of a detached family home in Shanklin. The brief was deceptively straightforward: open up the ground floor, bring in more light, and create a better connection between house and garden.

In practice, this required a systematic rethinking of the entire ground-floor plan — removing a warren of small rooms in favour of a single, well-proportioned living space that flows from front to back. A new rear extension introduces a considered structural system that allows the rear wall to dissolve almost entirely into glass.

The language is contemporary but grounded — a brick-faced elevation that respects the local vernacular while bringing a quiet confidence to the streetscape.

03 — Interior Architecture

Resolved from the inside out.

The interior was developed as a continuous design exercise alongside the architecture. Every fixed element — kitchen, joinery, stair, bathroom — was designed within the practice rather than selected from a catalogue.

The material palette is restrained: white oak, brushed plaster, honed limestone and matte black metalwork. Nothing competes; everything contributes. The kitchen occupies the full rear width of the extension; when the doors are open in summer the boundary between inside and outside almost disappears.