Minty House sits in a street of Victorian houses in West Hampstead. The client wanted a kitchen extension, with a filled-in side return, better connection to the garden, and a full refurbishment of the house from top to bottom. My design objectives were to give the client the extra space and design coherence they were after, and to make everything flow better, opening up sight lines from front to back – but also to bring a little quirkiness and colour to a house that, at the start of the project, was pretty much indistinguishable from all the other houses in the street.