A carefully resolved extension responding to its street and its occupants.

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.

The new rear extension introduces a considered structural system that allows the rear wall to dissolve almost entirely into glass, framing the garden as a green tableau from every point in the room. The language is contemporary but grounded — a brick-faced elevation that respects the local vernacular while bringing a quiet confidence to the streetscape.

The interior architecture was developed in parallel with the building, ensuring that fitted joinery, lighting and surface treatments were resolved as a coherent whole rather than added as afterthoughts. The result is a home that feels genuinely larger — not because of the square footage added, but because of the quality and flow of the spaces created.

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, opening to the garden through a set of folding sliding doors. When open in summer the boundary between inside and outside almost disappears — the kitchen and terrace becoming a single extended space for family life.