Bold architectural apertures are a mechanism for defining spatial experience, in a context driven design for a post-lockdown home by Studio McW. The Aperture House is an extension to an end-of-terrace Edwardian property in north London. The project originated from a new set of requirements from our client after becoming intimately acquainted with the confines of their home during the first national lockdown. The brief prompted an approach to the project based on carefully placed apertures and openings in the façade, roof and joinery that reconsider domestic threshold and connection in the wake of the pandemic. Residential architecture needs to work harder to meet new demands; the open plan expansive layout is no longer a romantic aspiration The design of The Aperture House allows the clients to be together, but also to be alone, to work and reflect; a space that maintains connection without sacrificing privacy.