Article: Made to order ; Carolyn Wagstaff got her perfect home without moving, she tells Cathy Strongman

CAROLYN Wagstaff bought her Islington Victorian town house in 1997, when it had already undergone several transformations. A kitchen extension had been added in the Sixties and 20 years later a bathroom had been built on top of that. "It was a horrible leaky extension that was very unattractive to look at," says Carolyn. "Because it only stretched across half the width of the house it also created a dead space of garden at the side." In 2005 Carolyn decided to redesign the extension. Through RIBA she drew up a shortlist of four architects and eventually decided on John Davies from Plastik Architects. The brief was to construct a single-storey extension to fill in the side return and produce ...

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