When Architect Sam Causer bought a crumbling Georgian townhouse in Margate in 2015, it had spent decades as a solicitor's storage facility. What he has done with it since is not, by his own definition, a renovation. Guided by SPAB principles of light-touch conservation, this is the story of a 200-year-old home — and an architect who decided that every layer of its history was worth keeping.

Award-winning architect Duncan Baker Brown returns to the South Downs home he designed a decade ago — a 100% electric, EPC A-rated eco home that began life as a two-bedroom bungalow, and still looks as remarkable as the day it was completed.

A serial renovator on her third project, Rose project managed and designed every element of this Edwardian home herself — transforming a tired, 40-year-unchanged property in SW London into an eclectic, light-filled family home, complete with a rear extension, a reimagined loft, and a glass wine wall that her builder suggested and she'll never regret.

What do you do with a redundant 1860s mission church in the heart of the Cotswolds? If you're the owner of this remarkable property, you convert it into one of the most characterful homes in the region — preserving the original stone walls, lancet windows, and soaring ceiling height while building an entirely contemporary life inside.

Homeowner Patsy O'Neal and Smith & Newton Architects took a tired 1850s Victorian terrace in North London and gave it something it had never had — a bold, confident identity. The result is a home that doesn't shy away from colour or contrast, with a contemporary rear extension that opens the ground floor up to the garden in a way the original layout never allowed.

Built from scratch on a modest plot in West Berkshire, this self-build family home proves that sustainability and good design aren't a compromise — they're the brief. From the structural system to the heating strategy, every decision was made with long-term environmental performance in mind.

Kelling Designs turned this three-storey Notting Hill maisonette into a masterclass in layered, considered colour — a home that feels bold and playful without ever tipping into chaos. Every room tells a different story, and yet somehow the whole thing holds together beautifully.

Mews homes are among London's most charming building types, and this Paddington example makes a strong case for going all in — every surface, inside and out, finished in black. The result is a home that's striking from the street and surprisingly warm within, proving that a single committed palette can be the most sophisticated design choice of all.

Lucy's three-storey Victorian terrace in Wandsworth had the bones — it just needed someone willing to strip it back and rebuild it properly. The renovation reworks the layout across all three floors, opening up the ground-floor living spaces and creating the kind of calm, considered family home that period properties so rarely start as.

On a plot in Teddington that once held a very ordinary house, this new build sets a very different standard — a carefully proportioned, design-led home that sits thoughtfully within its suburban setting without disappearing into it. It's the kind of project that makes you reconsider what new residential architecture in South West London can actually look like.

Guy Taylor Associates faced one of architecture's most delicate briefs: how do you add something contemporary to a home with this much existing character? The answer, at this Arts and Crafts property in Manchester, is with restraint, precision, and a deep respect for what was already there — producing an extension that feels inevitable rather than imposed.

Most people look at a decommissioned 1960s Brutalist water tower and see a problem. The owners of Tonwell Tower looked at it and saw a home. The result of that vision is one of the most extraordinary domestic conversions in the UK — a cylindrical, raw-concrete structure transformed into a striking, liveable family home in the Hertfordshire countryside.

EMR Architecture took this Fulham terrace all the way back to brick before building it back up — a rigorous, no-shortcuts approach to renovation that's evident in every finished detail. The rear extension adds considered new space without disrupting the character of the original, and the quality of the outcome speaks directly to the discipline of the process.

When your profession is interior architecture, your own home is the most honest portfolio piece you'll ever have. Emily Pun's London Victorian terrace is exactly that — a quietly confident renovation where every material choice and spatial decision reflects a designer who knows precisely what she's doing, and why.

AURA Architecture & Interiors brought their characteristic blend of spatial clarity and material warmth to this Bromley property — a renovation and extension that reworks the ground floor plan to create a home that flows properly from front to back, with a new rear volume that connects the interior directly to the garden.

Claudia Dorsch Interiors took a Surrey Hills property and did what great interior designers do — they made it feel entirely of its place. Hartwood is warm, layered, and deeply considered, with a material palette drawn from the landscape outside and an atmosphere that sits somewhere between country house and contemporary home.

On a former storage yard in Balham, three diamond-shaped homes now occupy a site that most developers would have approached very differently. Rose Hip Yard is a small residential development that prioritises architectural ambition over formula — three distinct, precisely designed houses that prove what's possible when you refuse to default to the obvious.

The extension at Copeland Road arrived in four days. That's not a figure of speech — the three-storey timber structure was prefabricated offsite and craned into position in under a week, transforming this Walthamstow Victorian terrace with a speed and precision that traditional build methods simply couldn't match.

Architects Moxy & Co Architects brought a precise, contemporary sensibility to this Stoke Newington terrace — a renovation and extension that doesn't try to mimic the existing Victorian fabric, but instead creates a clear and confident dialogue between old and new. The outcome is a home that feels both rooted and thoroughly modern.

A full restoration and contemporary extension to a Victorian terrace in Finsbury Park — Lothair Road is the kind of project that rewards the discipline of doing things properly. Every original detail that could be salvaged was, and the new rear addition provides the additional space the house always needed, without compromising what made it worth restoring in the first place.