Whole-House Renovation & Extension · Isle of Wight
Rosewood House.
A whole-house renovation and extension, reorganising the home around how the family actually lives.
Type
Renovation & Extension
Location
Isle of Wight
Completed
2025
Services
Full · RIBA 1–6
01 — The Brief
Reorganising the ground floor around family life.
Rosewood is the whole-house renovation and generous extension of a detached family home on the Isle of Wight. The house, as found, was a competent but disconnected arrangement of rooms — each one contained, each one underperforming. The project is a complete rethinking of how the whole house works.
The design removes two walls entirely and replaces a series of small rooms with a single open-plan kitchen, dining and living space that stretches from the side of the house to the full rear. A run of south-facing rooflights floods the heart of the plan with controlled daylight, eliminating the dark centre that plagued the original arrangement.
Three interventions, one unified space.
Most of the work happens to the plan rather than the elevation. Three moves did the heavy lifting.
Two Walls Removed
The structural walls that fragmented the ground floor were taken down. A new steel frame allows the kitchen, dining and living spaces to read as one.
South Rooflights
A run of south-facing rooflights floods the heart of the plan with controlled daylight — eliminating the dark centre that plagued the original arrangement.
Garden Connection
Two sets of full-height sliding doors open the rear face of the house completely. Level terraces step out from the kitchen into the garden — the threshold all but disappears in summer.
03 — Material Palette
Calm. Restrained. Designed to age.
The material palette is deliberately calm: white render, oak-framed windows, brushed limestone floors and a bespoke kitchen in pale ash. Materials chosen to age well, not to follow a magazine spread.
The garden is redesigned as part of the same commission — level terraces connecting to the kitchen through full-height sliding doors that dissolve the rear face of the house completely.
Architect
Woods Architects
Lewis Wood — full RIBA 1–6 service
Structural Engineer
[Engineer]
Steel frame for open-plan space
Landscape
In-house
Terraced garden design
Photography
[To be confirmed]
Visualisation by Woods Architects
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