Four huge, glass panels slide across the back of the house, merging the indoor and outdoor spaces. Blue Bateig limestone has been used to pave both house and garden, and the impressive internal green wall creates a direct visual link with the wisteria and hydrangeas that scramble up the external trellis. A pruned fig tree in a wedge-shaped Corten steel planter makes optimum use of the narrow space leading past a distinctly glamorous shed within the new extension to the outdoor dining room.