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Lines & Light Architects · Journal

Notes on light, rooms and how houses age.

What we learn on site, written up when the dust settles. Projects, plain advice and the materials we keep coming back to.

2026 4 posts

  1. Oct

    Why we start every house with a sun path drawing

    Process. Before any plan, we track where the light falls in each room through the year.

  2. Aug

    A Victorian terrace, opened to the backyard

    Projects. How a narrow kitchen got a glass roof and kept the neighbors happy.

  3. Jun

    Planning permission or permitted development?

    Advice. Which extensions need a full application, and which do not, in plain words.

  4. Mar

    Five materials we keep coming back to

    Materials. Lime plaster, larch, cork, oak and handmade brick, and why they age well.

2025 4 posts

  1. Nov

    The loft that became a library

    Projects. Two dormers, a rooflight over the stairs and forty meters of shelving.

  2. Sep

    What an architect's fee actually pays for

    Advice. The stages of a project, and what you hold in your hands at the end of each.

  3. May

    Small windows, big light

    Process. Where a window sits matters more than how big it is.

  4. Feb

    Making a 1930s duplex warm without gutting it

    Retrofit. Insulation, drafts and heating, in the order we tackle them.

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