For our most current lookbook, we have chosen ten kitchen area and dining extensions that generate spacious, simple and elegant additions to residences.


Kitchen area extensions are one particular of the most well-known building tasks for property owners. Created to include excess house to an existing constructing, they are often utilised for both of those cooking and socialising.

When they are popular in homes all over the earth, lots of of the kitchen extensions in this lookbook are observed in Victorian and Georgian terraced houses in London. The traditional properties have been remodelled to generate generous feeding on, dining and entertaining areas.

This is the latest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks collection giving visual inspiration for the home. Preceding kitchen area-similar posts element kitchen islands, green kitchens, and terrazzo kitchens.


Albion Terrace, Uk, by Outpost

Architecture studio Outpost added an extension with a zigzagging zinc facade to a Victorian terrace in east London’s Haggerston. The open up-strategy kitchen area and eating region were established inside of the extension, which offers a zigzagging roof and ceiling that follows the profile of the facade.

The kitchen capabilities cobalt blue cabinetry and wood worktops that contrast against the extension’s pale partitions, ground and ceiling.

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Fruit Box, UK, by Nimtim Architects

Fruit Box, British isles, by Nimtim Architects

A picket partitioned extension that houses a galley-design kitchen area was added to a 1970s townhouse in Forest Hill, London. Nimtim Architects used plywood partitions and joinery all through the extension to zone places these types of as the kitchen area and dining spot.

Square white tiles clad some of the kitchen area walls, forming splashbacks in opposition to tiled worktops. An adjacent island features a tiled waterfall countertop, which consists of a sink and shelving beneath.

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Cornerstone House, UK, by Merrett Houmøller Architects

Cornerstone Household, United kingdom, by Merrett Houmøller Architects

Located in the London neighbourhood of Crouch Close, Merrett Houmøller Architects created a present day extension that seemed to enrich the home’s connection with the rear backyard.

The extension was clad in blackened zinc tiles and homes the kitchen, dining and little dwelling region. Ground-to-ceiling windows occupy the rear partitions of the extension and deliver views out to the garden from the kitchen and eating place.

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Punta Chilen, Chile, by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados

Punta Chilen, Chile, by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados

Santiagao-based mostly architecture studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados crafted a household extension on shiny crimson-painted stilts, which residences Punta Chilen’s kitchen area as very well as the home’s living areas.

The extension can take form as a big open-plan space that is mostly made use of for cooking and taking in. Wooden clads the walls, floors and ceiling of the place and extends across the kitchen to kind blocks of worksurfaces and cabinetry.

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Mount View, UK, by Archmongers

Mount See, Uk, by Archmongers

Pale pink tiles clad the exterior of this kitchen extension on a Victorian terraced property by Archmongers in north London. The extension occupies the rear of the residence and homes a new kitchen and dining room, while furnishing the historic terrace with a 1970s-informed aesthetic.

The kitchen area features a identical color palette to the exterior tiles, boasting a pastel-toned interior that capabilities a breakfast bar overlooking the backyard.

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Rydon Street, UK, by Moxon Architects

Rydon Street, Uk, by Moxon Architects

Found in a conservation spot of Islington, north London, the basement of this Victorian townhouse was excavated by Moxon Architects to include a dazzling open-program kitchen, eating and living extension.

The basement was opened up and had a small extension extra to the rear, forming an open-program residing and eating space that potential customers out to a sunken yard. It offers a minimalist, gallery-like look.

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Overcast House, UK, by Office S&M

Overcast Household, United kingdom, by Business office S&M

Housed in just a salmon-pink rear volume, this household extension by Office S&M in north London’s Haringey works by using trending hues these kinds of as millenium-pink and mint green for the kitchen and entertaining house.

Unlike its unusual exterior, the interior of the extension boasts a usual layout and functions a kitchen tucked into a recessed wall guiding a big island that is made up of a sink and storage answers.

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Plinth House, UK, by DGN Studio

Plinth Property, Uk, by DGN Studio

DGN Studio extended this semi-detached Victorian terrace in east London by introducing a sunken concrete flooring that aimed to maximise the kitchen extension’s ceiling height.

Gentle oakwood traces the ceilings of the extension among a skylight that permits daylight to flood the sunken room. A massive kitchen island occupies the centre of the area, whilst a eating location is situated at the rear.

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Edinburgh Pavilion, Scotland, by Archer + Braun

Edinburgh Pavilion, Uk, by Archer + Braun

Titled Edinburgh Pavilion, Archer + Braun constructed this minimum extension in Edinburgh as a deliberate distinction to the Quality B-mentioned construction it adjoined. The volume has a glazed rectangular sort that is removed from interior partitions.

Crimson components body the extension’s glazed wall as properly as its interior, supplying pops of colour to the kitchen and eating place it homes.

The kitchen area is neatly tucked inside of the purple Corsehill sandstone quantity of the extension and spills out to the open-prepare glazed region, which doubles as a dining room.

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Exoskeleton House, Australia, by Takt Studio

Exoskeleton Dwelling, Australia, by Takt Studio

Takt Studio extra a steel exoskeleton extension with a sloping roof to a 1950s brick bungalow in the foothills of the Australian mountains. The new addition opened up the household to build a single massive residing region that retains a kitchen area and dining area surrounded by exterior decking.

The kitchen, found at the jap side of the extension, usually takes shape as two rows of cabinetry and options sights out to the surrounding landscape.

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This is the most current in our sequence of lookbooks giving curated visual inspiration from Dezeen’s picture archive. For additional inspiration see preceding lookbooks showcasing tasteful wooden panelling, kindergarten interiors, clever storage options and plywood interiors.