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.

Reiss and Dan bought this Victorian terrace in Hackney in 2021 as first-time buyers, choosing a property they could live in before renovating so they could properly understand the space first. What followed was a renovation that touched almost every room — a side return and rear extension with a stainless steel kitchen island, a vaulted bathroom and study, and a confident use of colour throughout that sits comfortably alongside original floorboards and cornicing. This is a home built by two people with no design background, who knew exactly what they wanted.

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.

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.

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.