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.

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.

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.

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.

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.