This Victorian house offered well proportioned, light and spacious living spaces at the front, and small and dark kitchen spaces at the back – the family’s most commonly used spaces. An extension and garden pavilion were added, facing each other across the lawn. The kitchen projects into the garden, whilst the pavilion has an outdoor kitchen, south-facing patio, and a 1m-deep shed across its north wall. The new extension differentiates between old and new through a level change, which also allows the spaces deeper in the house gain better views out to the garden through the extension.