Real kitchen
When Cathy and Andrew Fagg needed to extend the kitchen at the top of their home, their architect rose to the challenge with a stunning design
See how Cathy and Andrew cleverly extended the kitchen at the top of their home
OUR first attempts at home design start in childhood. We practise room layouts in doll’s houses, DIY on hidden dens and rudimentary structural engineering building houses in the trees. But we seldom get the chance to translate those early lessons to our adult homes in the way Cathy Fagg and her husband, Andrew, have.
The complexities of trying to double the size of the kitchen at the top of a split-level house built on a slope so steep it looks like a bungalow at the front and two-storey house to the rear, led to an inspired architectural solution. The new second-storey extension is a wood-clad, thoroughly grown up ‘treehouse’, with glazing in the walls and roof that immerse you in the outdoors. Inside the natural neutrals and greens of the sleek kitchen reflect the colours outside.
Cathy reveals how they created a room in the clouds that has put them at the heart of nature...
‘We had the opportunity to do something amazing,’ says Cathy of the extension. Covered steps to the side of it solve the problem of how to access the garden easily
Kitchen, Silverbrow. Titanium polished granite and vanilla cream polished Q-stone work surfaces,
STONECIRCLE. Custom-made
splashback, DIY Splashbacks. Feature wall painted in custom mix to RAL 7034. Windows and
external doors, Velfac. Red cedar exterior cladding,
sourced by builders