The Bonita Room Alteration
An architect’s house is a thing to play with, a bit like life. Perhaps even more so when it’s an architecture inherited almost unchanged from Alec Bowman’s original 1960 design for a retired couple, and now in dire need of simple thinks like a kitchen, spaces to fit a family, and a connection to the garden.
Our alteration starts with the addition of a room as a 13th birthday present, the ‘The Bonita Room’. The addition of around 12m2 and internal reconfiguration turns the house from a retiree into a home for a family of 5.
The alteration firstly accepts what we all like about the house and then looks for with what’s missing. New work carefully playing darker, secondary and supportive.
Irving Smith Architects
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