Airy Kitchen Additions
These home additions focus on adding space for the hardest working room in the house.

In northern New Jersey, a cramped kitchen was reborn as a welcoming space for cooking and entertaining. The 18-month-long project proved transformative in more than one way. A design business, called Dan and John Life, emerged from the renovation and has since become a full-time venture for the residing couple.

If you’ve ever wondered what chefs want out of their own kitchens, Fraher Architects’ latest project offers one answer: simplicity. Through an extension to an existing London flat, they gave their client, who runs several fast-paced restaurants, a no-fuss cooking space where she could relax and socialize in the off hours with friends.

Thellend Fortin Architectes tackled an addition to this single-story, 1960s-era house in the Outremont neighborhood of Montreal. The addition was conceived as a "ribbon" that both hugs and runs lateral to the contours of the existing building, offering multiple vantage points from which to admire the surrounding landscape.