Beautiful Kitchen extensions

Creating a new hub of the home is at the heart of these amazing projects

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Out to the back

After buying a typical three-bed 1930s house in South Wales, Aga and Andrew Tomaszek turned the property from tired and dated into a small family home suitable for two professionals to work from home. Builders knocked through the front and back reception rooms and extended along the rear of the house.

This provided a large L-shaped kitchen/dining/living area that would also house their home office. They fitted their own kitchen (from DIY Kitchens) and installed a utility and a shower room in place of the old one. Four-metre-wide bifold doors and a flat rooflight bathe the new, stylish space in light.

Country charm

When extending their 19th-century cottage, Emma and Guy Silver connected the new, light-filled kitchen to their Mediterranean-inspired garden. "The aim was to make the room as spacious as we could, with bifold doors onto the garden.