Private House, Cleveden Drive, Glasgow

This project for a professional couple, whose children had grown up and left home, consisted of two parts – the refurbishment and separation of the main house from the back leg of the building and the conversion of this rear portion into a self-contained 2 bedroom mews flat. The project for the mews flat required the greater design ingenuity. The economics of the exercise called for maximum space usage at the same time as making the space feel generous and suitably upmarket. This was achieved by utilising the brightness and spaciousness of the living room upstairs and connecting this via glass doors and a double height space to a main circulation route downstairs. The downstairs circulation was then organised as a section of corridor subtly expanded and curved to create a play space, linked with glass doors opening directly into the kitchen and study bedroom, and the window beyond. This axis of ground floor space creates a single but subtly articulated semi open plan family living area.