The rear of the house has been opened up with a home extension that replaces older outbuildings with a contemporary garden-side volume. Inside, the ground floor now holds the kitchen, living room and utility room, while the upper level makes space for the laundry area and a home office. The move is clear in plan and in section: the extension reaches across two floors, but the read remains light thanks to minimal sliding windows and a glass surface that pulls the garden into view.<\/p>\n
From the garden, the new volume reads as a long, dark element set against the older house. Its aluminum cladding facade folds the surface into crisp lines, while the large glass facade cuts open the edge toward the terrace. The result is not a decorative addition but a deliberate insertion, one that changes how the house meets the outside space. The sliding openings are kept as slim as possible, so the frame does less visual work and the opening itself can do more.<\/p>\n
The glazing also changes the way the ground floor is used. Kitchen and living room sit beside each other in the new part, with the utility room tucked close by. Rather than separating the rooms into isolated functions, the extension stretches them along the back of the house and lets each one touch the same strip of light. The connection to the garden becomes part of the layout, not just a view at the end of it.<\/p>\n
The contrast with the existing house is strong in the photographs. A white, classically detailed frontage sits beside the darker contemporary addition, and the meeting of those two parts is what gives the project its rhythm. The old ornamental edge, the newer black openings and the simpler volume at the rear all belong to the same renovation, but each is left legible. That makes the home extension feel like an answer to the existing structure rather than a cover-up.<\/p>\n
Seen from inside, the new rear volume works as a clear spatial extension of the original house. The ceiling line remains calm, the openings stay broad, and the transition to the terrace is almost flat. A polyconcrete floor at the back continues that sense of direct contact with the ground. It is a practical surface, but it also keeps the room visually open, especially where the garden sits just beyond the glass.<\/p>\n
The minimal sliding windows are the quietest element in the project, but they shape the experience most. Their slim profiles reduce the line between room and terrace, so the opening reads almost like a cut rather than a frame. On days with softer light, the glass reflects the garden and the dark metal takes on a flatter tone. On brighter days, the threshold disappears even more, and the rear extension feels like an extra layer of living space rather than a closed volume.<\/p>\n
That effect is strongest where the kitchen and living room meet the back elevation. Instead of a narrow strip of glazing, the project uses a wider opening that gives depth to the room and pulls the eye outward. The large glass facade is doing more than admitting light; it gives the interior a second horizon. The eye travels from the worktop and floor to the terrace edge and then into the planting beyond.<\/p>\n
Upstairs, the master suite is arranged around a new dressing room at the front and a master bathroom at the rear. The bathroom is the most tactile space in the project. Mortex covers the walls and combines with custom joinery to form a continuous surface around the basin and storage. In the pictures, the finish sits somewhere between stone and plaster, with a muted texture that catches light without reflecting it too sharply.<\/p>\n
The bathroom also includes a walk-in shower glass screen and a black shower head, both set against pale walls. That simple contrast keeps the room from feeling flat. A white sink and a wood-toned cabinet front bring in two lighter notes, while the long countertop holds the room together. The custom mortex bathroom is not about ornament; it is about the way one material can wrap the space and let the fittings sit quietly inside it.<\/p>\n
In close-up, the stone-look countertop shows a soft veining that works with the matt wall finish. The basin is integrated into a long line, which helps the room read as one continuous piece rather than a set of separate objects. The joinery below keeps the profile simple, and the glass partition above it repeats the straight geometry of the rest of the room. Even the darker accent wall in one view feels measured, a background rather than a statement.<\/p>\n
The shower zone is equally restrained. A clear glass edge defines the wet area, but it does not interrupt the room. The shower tray and surrounding surfaces stay light, and the black hardware marks the vertical line of the shower head with just enough contrast. It is here that the custom mortex bathroom becomes most convincing: the materials are not competing for attention, so the proportions and edges remain easy to read.<\/p>\n
The upper floor is not treated as a leftover level. It holds the laundry area and a home office, both placed where the new volume can give them proper light and usable floor area. That makes the home extension more than a rear addition for the living spaces below. It extends the daily routine of the house upward, keeping service functions and work space inside the same architectural move. The result is a clearer internal plan, one that uses the extension across both levels instead of concentrating everything at the back door.<\/p>\n
The master bedroom stays on the street side of the first floor, with the new dressing room linking it to the bathroom behind. That sequence gives the private rooms a distinct order: sleep, change, wash. The spaces are close, but they are not collapsed into one another. The extension supports that separation through placement rather than through heavy partitions, and that is why the project reads as composed rather than crowded.<\/p>\n
Across the project, the material list is short and readable: aluminum, glass, mortex, polyconcrete and built-in joinery. The rear extension uses those elements to keep the new volume firm without making it visually heavy. The dark cladding gives the outside a sharp outline, while the glazing removes the sense of bulk. Inside, the bathroom shifts to softer textures and lighter tones, but the same discipline remains. Nothing here depends on excess; the strength comes from how the parts line up.<\/p>\n
The supplied systems and materials, including the window solution and the home automation note mentioned in the source text, sit behind the finished spaces rather than in front of them. What stays visible is the architectural change: the old outbuildings have gone, the rear has been extended, and the house now opens to the garden with a larger, clearer edge. This home extension keeps the original frontage readable while giving the back of the property a very different presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":591522,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"home extension","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Home extension with a contemporary rear volume","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"A rear home extension adds a glazed garden-side volume, custom mortex bathroom finishes, and a clearer link between inside and out.","_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":"","_yoast_wpseo_content_score":"","content-type":"","_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":"","_yoast_wpseo_keywordsynonyms":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":null,"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":""},"hoog_category":[2967,2969],"class_list":["post-1079942","hoog_project","type-hoog_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","hoog_category-bathroom-ideas","hoog_category-conservatory-ideas"],"acf":{"hoog_project_owner":861099,"hoog_contributors":null,"hoog_project_badge":"","hoog_featured_project":false,"hoog_project_video":"","hoog_project_photos":[{"image_file":591522,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591513,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591516,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591519,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591525,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591528,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591531,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":591534,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"}]},"yoast_head":"\n