The existing house had no connection to its garden. The house was design and orientated to face forwards, turning its back on the rear, mature garden. Our brief was to introduce that connection with the garden, creating an open plan living space. The key was to connect the house to its rear garden and create direct access to it. Our proposal was to reconfigure the existing ground floor layout, moving the existing stair, to provide access to through to the garden, open up the views and maximise natural daylight. The existing property was long and thin, so the new garden room stretches across the length of the house with full height glazing along the entire elevation, maximising natural daylight and views outside. Further internal amendments were made to create a double height entrance hall and add a new bedroom above the single storey extension, over looking the rear garden.