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.

Lynn and her husband bought this six-bedroom Georgian home in East London in February 2020 from a family who had lived there for over 60 years. What followed was one of the most ambitious renovations we've featured — a loft extension, a basement dig, a brick-built garden room and a former pottery studio transformed into a striking all-black kitchen extension. This is a home that embraces dark colours, original period detail and flexible, creative living in equal measure.

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.

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.

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.

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.