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Work from the founder's twenty-plus years of experience, shown in the order it actually happened.

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Full renovation: a storey added onto an existing villa

One house, one trajectory — from the first hammer blow to handover. The old roof was stripped to the rafters, then a full storey was built on the existing masonry in cellular blocks and seamlessly continued brick, under a new roof structure with a terrace. Finally the garden was relaid around a winding natural stone path. The first comparison shows the transformation itself: the single-storey villa in spring, the same facade with its new floor in summer. The photos show the result first, then the site work that led there.

  • ROOF OFF, STOREY ON
  • NEW ROOF STRUCTURE AND TERRACE
  • GARDEN AND NATURAL STONE PATH
  • INTERIOR FINISHED
Finished two-storey villa in light brick, anthracite muntin windows, a wrought-iron door under a brick arch and a new black tiled roof under a blue sky
The villa before the works: a single living floor under an old brown tiled roof, arched windows and a fanlight door behind the new street wall
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Finished terrace with a glass balustrade overlooking the landscaped garden: lawn, winding natural stone path, hedges and a wooden garden house
The same viewpoint during the works: the walls of the new floor in cellular block and brick with reinforcement, and behind them the garden still bare earth
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Landscaped garden from above: new lawn, winding natural stone path, young hedging and a wooden garden house with red roof
The same garden earlier in the works: the winding natural stone path is laid, the ground still bare with young planting
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Structure & shell

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Gutted interior with exposed timber floor joists and a new red steel beam spanning the brick walls.
Room during strip-out, the ceiling opened to the lath, debris on the floor and a niche in the wall.Elevated view of the rear extension under construction: a reinforced floor deck and blockwork walls, with a worker.Raw cast-concrete staircase in a bare stairwell, with red service pipes running overhead.Looking down from the roof onto the new floor’s blockwork walls, brick columns and parapet, the garden below.Reinforcement mesh over sheeting in a foundation trench, ready to pour.A breaker and tape measure on broken-up concrete at a doorway.Freshly floated concrete slab of the rooftop terrace, brick parapet and a view over the green garden.Workers lay the red-brick parapet with formwork above the new extension, under a clear blue sky.

Roof & upper floor

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The old roof stripped to the rafters above the intact ground floor: bare timber skeleton, retained chimney, two workers on the structure
Roofing crew fixing the new treated-timber roof structure, seen from below against a grey sky.The new floor being tiled in dark tiles over green battens; workers on the roof, a little snow on the parapet.Underside of the new tiled roof with a roof window, a laminated beam at the eaves and treated rafters.The crew builds the new roof — bare rafters on one slope, underlay and battens on the other — above the brick gable.The pitched roof from inside, stripped to the wooden rafters, with old mineral wool stacked aside.A worker fits battens and roof vents over the underlay, under a partly cloudy sky.The floor addition under way: the new storey in white cellular blocks and red masonry under the new black tiled roof, two roofers at work, wide blue skyA roofer beside a skylight on the finished dark-tiled roof, next to the new brick gable, under a blue sky.

Interior & finishes

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Underfloor-heating pipes over black studded panels in a stripped room with bare plaster walls and daylight.
Empty upper-floor room with an exposed metal ceiling frame, stacked plasterboard and a window onto the trees.Attic room with a sloped plasterboard ceiling and a skylight onto the neighbouring rooftops.Attic under finishing, with a skylight, plastered sloping ceiling and an open floor section over new joists.Attic space with a skylight opening in the ceiling and exposed treated rafters along the knee wall.A worker fixing plasterboard to the sloping ceiling of a newly framed attic, seen from behind.Opened-up living space with a new steel beam where the load-bearing wall was removed.Interior mid-renovation with a new metal ceiling frame, freshly plastered walls and unglazed openings over a concrete floor.A freshly laid, smooth cement screed floor, with a foam canister against the wall.Interior with a metal furring frame across the ceiling and patched plaster walls, buckets and a wheelbarrow in the corner.Finished marble staircase with a glass balustrade, an ornate gilt mirror and a marble console in the hall.Finished bathroom with book-matched marble-effect tiles, a wall-hung toilet and a frosted window.Finished empty room with a polished marble-effect floor, cove LED lighting and two garden-facing windows.Finished kitchen with high-gloss white cabinetry, walnut accents, a gas hob and marble-effect floor and walls.

Facade & exterior

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Corner of the house with a covered first-floor loggia, a wavy wrought-iron balustrade, finished brickwork and a tiled roof.
Front elevation of the brick house with part of the roof stripped to the battens and rafters, chimney and dormer.Brick facade with new dark-framed windows and an ornate wrought-iron and glass entrance door; a worker points the brickwork.Rear elevation early in the works: the brick openings being altered, the old brown tiled roof still in place and roofers at work.The finished cream-brick house with a brown tiled roof and chimney, arched windows and a pale panelled front door.

Project details

Type
Full renovation

Roof stripped to the rafters, a full storey added on the existing masonry, new roof structure and terrace. Garden relaid and the interior fully finished.

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