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Rear extension, open-plan kitchen & deck — Motspur Park

The back of the house was opened right up with a steel-framed rear extension, turning a series of small rooms into one bright, open-plan kitchen and living space that flows out onto a new raised deck.

Location
Motspur Park (KT3), SW London
Project type
Rear extension & open-plan kitchen
Scope
Steelwork · brickwork · flat roof · bifold doors · rooflight · open-plan kitchen · raised timber deck
Status
Completed
During

Opening up the back

The key to a project like this is the structure. We removed the original rear wall and set in a steel frame — propped on acrows while the new beams took the load — to create one wide, open span where there had been small, separate rooms. With the steels in and the new brick base built, the shape of the extension was set.

Rear of a Motspur Park house opened up with a steel goal-post frame and acrow props during the extension
During — the rear opened up on a new steel frame, with the brick base built.
During

Inside, opening to the garden

Inside, the room took shape — plastered out, with a rooflight set into the ceiling and a wide run of bifold doors framing the garden. Even before the finishes went in, you could see how the light and the connection to the deck outside would work.

Interior of the Motspur Park extension looking out through new bifold doors to the deck, with a rooflight above
During — the new room looking out to the deck, with rooflight and bifold doors in.
After · Outside

The finished extension and deck

Outside, the finished flat-roof extension opens through full-width bifold doors onto a raised timber deck that we built to level the space and step down to the garden, edged with a frameless glass balustrade. It makes the whole back of the house feel bigger, brighter and made for being outside.

Finished Motspur Park rear extension with bifold doors open onto a raised timber deck with glass balustrade
After — the finished extension and the raised deck with glass balustrade.
After · Inside

The open-plan kitchen

Inside, the extension became a bright, open-plan kitchen and living space — a run of handleless units and an island under warm downlighting, opening straight out through the bifolds to the deck. It's exactly the sociable, light-filled heart of the home the owners were after.

Open-plan kitchen in the Motspur Park extension seen at night through the bifold doors
After — the finished open-plan kitchen, seen from the deck in the evening.

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