Build Team Blog

East Dulwich Grove is a wraparound ground floor extension to a two-bedroom ground floor flat in SE22. It added 28 sqm of new space, took 12 weeks to build and cost £60,000 plus VAT. The result is an open-plan kitchen, dining and living room, plus a study and a playroom, in a hom...

Therapia Road is a rear extension on a six-bedroom detached Victorian house in Dulwich. It took 16 weeks to build and cost £150,000 plus VAT. The brief was a new kitchen and dining space that opens completely to the garden, so the design uses glass doors that fold back to 90 deg...

A mansard loft conversion rebuilds the rear roof slope as a near-vertical wall, pitched at roughly 72 degrees, with a shallow flat roof above and windows set into the slope. It adds the most usable space of any loft type, which is why it is popular on London’s period terraces. A...

A hip-to-gable loft conversion rebuilds the sloping end of a hipped roof as a vertical gable wall. This squares off the loft and adds both floor space and head height, which is often what makes a conversion possible in the first place. It suits detached, semi-detached and end-of...

Scholars Road is a 36 sqm ground floor extension in Balham, SW12. It took 14–16 weeks to build and cost £70,000 plus VAT for shell and core. The brief was a modern, clean kitchen and dining space with a strong indoor-outdoor connection, built for both everyday life and entertain...