Rear Extension and Kitchen Installation

Project Overview

This compact two-bedroom terrace near Selhurst station had a particularly small kitchen — just 2m x 2.5m, with barely enough room for the cooker, fridge, and a single run of worktop. There was no separate dining room, so the family had been eating on their laps in the living room for years. A rear extension was the only way to create a kitchen they could actually eat in.

We built a 3.5m single-storey rear extension under Permitted Development, adding roughly 12 square metres of new ground-floor space. The new room houses an L-shaped kitchen along two walls with space for a four-seat dining table in the centre. A large skylight over the dining area keeps the middle of the room bright, and a single sliding door opens onto the small rear garden.

The project was completed to a tight budget. The owners chose Howdens kitchen units with laminate worktops and ceramic floor tiles, which kept costs manageable without compromising on quality. We also took the opportunity to upgrade the consumer unit and add additional sockets throughout the ground floor, as the existing electrics were running off an old fuse board with rewirable fuses.