London discovers the courtyard
Inner courtyards create space and let light flow into all your rooms. Ruth Bloomfield discovers how it's done
24 February 2016
- The extension creates a new view on to the garden from the open-plan kitchen
- Architect Matt Giles was given a budget of £140,000 to reinvent the ground floor
COURTYARDS GO CONTEMPORARY
Melody Road, Wandsworth
The new extension houses the colourful kitchen
Nightingale Conservation Area, Clapham
Budget: £300,000 to revamp the whole house and maximise the light into the middle
The new extension and doors, plus the small inner courtyard, let the light flood through the ground floor
Photography by Edmund Sumner and Logan MacDougall Pope
