Renovation projects

Geraldine Patten and Andrew Martin have turned an awkward 1970s semi in London into the quintessential 21st century family home

Giles and Heidi Thompson’s sensitive renovation and extension of a Victorian villa involved some impressively radical solutions

Despite his lack of building experience or skills, Mark Collins has designed and managed the conversion of a huge stone barn to create a show-stopping home

Catherine Kanter ended up effectively taking her house down, restoring every element and building it back up again — and then added on an impressive contemporary extension

Adrian and Glenda Gracia have remodelled and extended a run-down 1950s house to create a light, bright, stylish new home

Rob and Grace Horton have remodelled a listed home, adding a contemporary-style extension in oak frame and glass

Alex and Seonaid Maclean-Bristol have created an astonishing contemporary home out of the ruins of a Georgian landmark

Sarah Pepworth has transformed a dated bungalow into a spacious new home by adding a whole storey

Imagine spending six years renovating a sublime 16th century home, only to see it burn down. In a remarkable story, Penny and Mark Sloper reveal how they managed to start all over again

Reluctant to lose their large family-friendly garden by moving, Mohini and David Gray added a striking, light-filled extension to their ordinary 1990s estate home

Kevin Gallagher has transformed a dated ‘70s bungalow into a charming new home — for just £38,000

John Burke has saved a derelict Georgian mill from ruin, transforming it into a sumptuous home

Kollette and Darren Smith have completely rebuilt a former schoolhouse on the verge of collapse, creating a family home whilst preserving the original building’s charm

Liz Kingston has sensitively renovated the dated interiors of a listed stone property, adding a contemporary extension to take best advantage of the light and the rural views

Judith and Chris Brook have transformed a barn into a contemporary open plan family home, full of light

Penny Shankar has transformed a 1950s bungalow by adding a flat-roofed timber-frame structure on top, creating a modernist two-storey home

David Tayler and Zana Rajin have remodelled an unexciting bungalow, adding a sizable oak frame extension, to create a dramatic home set within private woodland

Jayne and Ian Gordon have completely transformed a neglected bungalow in a National Park, sparing no expense to create a luxury home for life

Charlie Greig has pushed her London semi-detached home to the limits with a remarkable remodelling scheme

John and Helen Parsons’ hunt for a self-build plot concluded in the conversion of a redundant listed barn into a thoroughly eco-friendly family home

Sarah Tyrrell has sympathetically extended her Grade II listed home using reclaimed materials

Lesley and Guy Mace took on a listed farm steading in a Conservation Area, carefully restoring the original buildings and adding a new wing to create a stunning home with waterside views

Alan and Lona McCrone took on a historic Arts & Crafts house that had fallen into a gloomy, almost prison-like state, and transformed it into a bright and beautiful family home

Jamal Badrashi and Kim Loddo have remodelled and extended a dated ex-council house, transforming it into a contemporary urban haven — all for under £80,000

Duncan and Fiona Porteous took on a 1970s Modernist one-off house that everyone else wanted to tear down — and updated it to create a home perfect for modern family life.

Originally set on extending a ‘boxy’ 1970s house, Matt and Claire Podesta found reworking the existing space and proportions a wiser solution.

Chris and Gunna Chown took on a tiny tin shed in North Wales that no one else knew what to do with and transformed it into a charming country cottage.

Nick Kenny used reclaimed materials to convert a run-down Victorian corrugated-iron chapel into a unique home.

Alex Ball and Helen Quinn have not only faithfully restored a listed 1960s home – an architectural masterpiece of its time – but have made sixties living a way of life.

Steven and Helen Mason, winners of the Best Renovation category in our 2010 Awards, have faithfully restored – and reinvented – a derelict Grade II listed cottage.