Simon and Jane’s Dorset home is an attractive farmhouse that is disappointingly detached from its big gardens. Jane’s plan was to renovate her twenty year old kitchen; our suggestion was to start with a new lawn where they used to park cars. The challenge was to do the least possible to turn a house surrounded by asphalt back to a farmhouse with doors, windows, and gardens that felt right, giving them a much better relationship with very familiar surroundings.