The kitchen everyone ends up in.
A good extension isn’t a bigger room — it’s a better house. We design from the way light moves through your plot and the way your family actually lives.
Side return
Reclaim the dead alley beside your kitchen — the single biggest gain in a Victorian terrace.
Full-width rear
A wide, light-filled back. Roof lights, sliders and a continuous floor out to the garden.
Wraparound
Side and rear together — the most ambitious move, and the one that quietly transforms the whole ground floor.
The alley you forgot you owned.
Most Victorian and Edwardian terraces hide a one-metre strip of dead ground beside the kitchen. Roof it in glass, knock through, and the room doubles in feel before it doubles in floor area.
- Structural opening across the original return wall
- Glazed pitched roof or flush roof lights for top light
- Underfloor heating and continuous flooring to the garden
- Typically 14–20 weeks on site
A back wall that finally lets the garden in.
A full-width rear opens the entire back of the house in one move. Done well, it’s the difference between a kitchen with a view and a room that genuinely lives outside from May to September.
- Steel goalpost frame across the original rear wall
- Sliding or pivot doors — flush threshold to garden
- Pitched glazed roof or pop-up rooflight for top light
- Typically 10–14 weeks on site · from £85k
Side and rear, in one quiet move.
A wraparound is the most ambitious ground-floor change a London terrace can take — and the one that quietly resets how the whole house works. Kitchen, dining and a proper sitting space, all on one level, all wrapped around the garden.
- Combined side-return and full-width rear footprint
- Corner sliders or pocket doors for an open garden edge
- Zoned lighting, underfloor heating and acoustic detailing
- Typically 14–20 weeks on site · from £130k
Glass isn’t the answer. The right glass is.
The most common mistake we see is too much glazing facing the wrong way. South-west walls cook in summer; north-east ones lose heat in winter.
Every Nested lofts and extensions begins with a sun-path study of your specific plot. We then place glazing — sliders, fixed panels, roof lights — exactly where it will repay you in light without punishing you in heat or bills.
Everything. Properly.
- Full architectural and structural drawings
- Planning, building control and party wall surveying
- Steelwork, insulation to current Part L standards
- Bespoke staircase joinery, made in our workshop
- Plastering, electrics, plumbing and second fix
- Decoration, flooring and final clean