Our clients approached us with a problem: they struggled to balance the competing demands of family life in their existing living spaces. Their first instinct was that they needed a loft conversion. Balancing conservation challenges and a need for better, more adaptable spaces, we developed a series of resourceful but effective strategies to remodel and extend the building in a manner which also satisfied our Clients’ appetite to stay something new and surprising about the existing building. This front extension unlocks the puzzle to rebalance the internal spaces of the house for the family, Cosmo the dog and Lace the cat to share. Constructed from a timber framed structure elevated on a concrete plinth, the warmth of the cladding speaks to the overhanging willow which forms a natural curtain over the new window openings. It’s thanks to the collaboration and dialogue we developed with our clients that such a happy, sensitive project has resulted.