Architectural Residential Case Studies
Find inspiration through our property features, showcasing real homes and home improvement projects, filmed & featured by HomeInspire, in partnership with homeowners, architects, and interior designers. Each feature and video tour takes you inside the story of a property transformation, exploring design ideas, materials, and practical insights behind some of the UK’s most inspiring renovation work and home projects.
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Our architectural residential case studies go beyond showcasing beautiful finished homes. They explore the thinking behind each project, from the initial design brief and planning challenges to material choices, construction techniques, and the details that make every home unique. By documenting the full journey, we provide valuable insight into the design process and the collaboration between homeowners, architects, designers, and contractors.
Whether you're planning your own renovation, searching for ideas, or simply passionate about residential architecture, our architectural residential case studies offer inspiration grounded in real projects. From contemporary extensions and whole-house refurbishments to self-builds and sensitive period restorations, each feature highlights practical solutions alongside exceptional design, helping you better understand what is possible for your own home.
Through high-quality photography, cinematic video tours, and in-depth project stories, we aim to celebrate the creativity, craftsmanship, and expertise behind every transformation. Our growing collection of architectural residential case studies is designed to inspire homeowners, support design professionals, and showcase outstanding residential architecture from across the UK.
Bottlebrush House: Inside Danny's Restored and Extended Late Victorian Home in London
Danny bought this late Victorian London home in 2023 planning to move in, do a bit of wallpapering and take it room by room. When the plaster started crumbling off the walls, it became a full renovation — the house stripped back to brick, the facade freed from sixty years of burgundy paint, and the Victorian cornicing and fireplaces carefully reinstated. At the rear, a green zinc extension by Studio Collab houses a kitchen with a green quartzite island, Crittall doors and an oriel window reading nook. When the budget ran out, Danny picked up the tools and did the panelling, skirting and picture rails himself — a proper labour of love, right down to a staircase that took a year to restore.
Triangle House: Inside Rose's Fully Renovated and Extended Edwardian Home in SW London
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.
Wandsworth Renovation: Inside Lucy's Renovated Three-Storey Victorian Home
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.
Norman Park, Bromley: A Renovation & Extension Project by AURA Architecture & Interiors.
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.
Rose Hip Yard: A Contemporary Development of Three Diamond-Shaped Homes on a Former Storage Yard.
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.