House extensions, refurbishments and small residential developments across South West London, shaped by light, space and carefully chosen materials.
For homeowners in Richmond, Kingston and South West London: a home that feels more comfortable, more usable and supports the way you live.
Spaces that feel natural and well balanced with your existing home and garden, connecting inside and out, improving flow and adding space where it's needed.
Existing layouts adjusted to fit your life, improving circulation, day-to-day function and the quality of each space, without unnecessary cost or complexity.
Every part of your home designed, from kitchen and bathroom layouts to bespoke joinery and lighting, so it feels cohesive from structure to surface.
Clear, well-considered planning submissions, whether you're in a conservation area, a listed building, or need consent for a new side extension. We also support building control approval.
Every project with all its photos: open one to step through them.
A spacious semi-detached villa in the St Margarets Estate Conservation Area, Richmond, refurbished and extended to blend modern updates with its original features. The garage became a kitchen and dining space, connected to the terrace and garden by a cantilevered roof. The project included internal and external decoration, bespoke joinery and custom-made furniture.
A neglected 1870s townhouse in the strict Bartholomew conservation area, extended at lower ground floor and fully refurbished. It needed planning approval, and we negotiated six party wall awards. Bedrooms and living spaces were flipped so the open plan living floor opens straight onto the large private garden, with a sprinkler system throughout to meet Building Regulations and a Sebastian Cox deVOL kitchen setting the feel of the interior.
External upgrades to a Grade II listed townhouse in a late-18th-century terrace overlooking Kew Green, improving its approach, entrance, accessibility and usability while keeping its historic character. New elements draw on the house's own detailing and proportion, and specialist craftspeople carried out the works with traditional materials and techniques.
A full refurbishment and extension of a grand house in the North Kilburn Conservation Area. A glazed side return brings daylight into a previously dim kitchen and links it to the main living areas, with a bespoke pivot door and frameless glass window opening to the garden. A complete interior redesign makes the house work with the new light-filled space.
Photographs by Peter Landers
A 1900s farm barn on the island of Öland, Sweden, that once housed the farm's Sunday carriage, horses and pigs, converted into a seasonal studio and gallery. A plywood lining mediates the uneven stone walls, the original tile roof and stone floor are restored, and a piece of furniture at one end works as a small office. It is part of a larger masterplan for the site, including a low-impact, off-grid dwelling.
The focal installation for the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's InTRANSIT Art and Performance Festival on Portobello Road, designed in collaboration with You&me. It gives the festival a stage and backdrop, with scaled versions of city elements combined with domestic ones: a kitchen in a park, a living room on the pavement.
Photographs by Wai Lan Lee and Alicja Borkowska
We led the design and delivery of a pilot market for Tottenham Green, commissioned and funded by Haringey Council, which is now a successful permanent makers' market. We secured council support, coordinated local traders and community groups, ran two trial events, and gathered feedback to test long-term viability.
Richmond has many of both. We know how to work within those constraints, and we guide you through planning with proposals that are carefully considered and realistic to deliver.
From early concepts through to planning and delivery, the process stays clear and collaborative. We work alongside planning consultants, structural engineers and building surveyors, and support you through building control approval.
We work with landowners and small-scale developers to unlock the potential of small residential sites, with design support that helps you understand opportunities and risks early.
Scale, yield, constraints, daylight, access and planning context, tested before you commit.
Options that weigh value against risk, often before a full project team is appointed.
We help shape your conversations with the planning authority.
We coordinate with consultants to reach elegant, buildable solutions.
Wolf en Den honours our founder's grandparents. In the early 1960s they ran a design shop called The Loft in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria. Before Habitat brought modern design to the high street, The Loft offered Scandinavian homeware alongside handmade pieces from the north of England: blankets, baskets, and bone and horn items for everyday use.
Behind the shop was a quiet belief that good design belongs in daily life, with every piece chosen for its material quality, usefulness and tactile beauty. Those ideas still shape our approach: thoughtful simplicity, and everyday spaces made with care, designed to last and honest to their materials.
Founder
Zoë is an architect with over 15 years' experience in residential-led projects: bespoke private homes, mixed-use developments and sensitive extensions, across urban reuse and infill, suburban densification and the careful reuse of brownfield sites.
She believes good residential design should feel intuitive and generous, shaped by light, material quality and the realities of everyday life.
Alongside practice, Zoë mentors young professionals, teaches, and is a visiting design critic at several UK universities. She is Secretary of the RIBA South West London Group, which works with architects and students across Croydon, Kingston, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
“Zoe did an amazing job working with us to come up with a design that would truly maximize the potential opportunity for space in our semi-detached Victorian house. We ended up with a huge kitchen-diner, downstairs toilet/utility room and a new entrance with a boot room and boiler. The massive picture windows and 4 skylights really let in a lot of light even during the winter.”
“Zoe provided us with an excellent service with our garden room – from first design through to overseeing the construction. Throughout the process she was patient, professional and ultimately we’ve a space which blends in very well in our garden and we’re very pleased with.”
“A great partner from the beginning to the end of a project. Imaginative design, intelligent use of available space. Know what is feasible and collaborate well with contractors. Great ideas about sourcing materials, appliances, tiles, etc.”
“Wonderful practice with a focus on design; they designed our side return extension for our Victorian house in Windsor. Great ideas and a hands on approach, supporting us through the process. I would highly recommend.”
We work on extensions, refurbishments and small developments across Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames, from suburban family homes to compact urban sites, and with landowners and developers further afield.
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