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Extend

Extend

Explore how to create more living space and add value to your home with an extension. Whether you extend your home upwards, outwards or into your garden, find out how to go about it and whether you can take advantage of permitted development rights.

A Tesla powerwall fixed to an outside wall

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Which home battery system is best?

Home energy storage is a brilliant option for saving money and reducing your building’s carbon footprint, but the way you connect it makes a big difference

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A Tesla powerwall fixed to an outside wall

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Which home battery system is best?

By Simon Handby

Hartdene Barns is a dairy farm conversion built to RIBA Climate Challenge standards

By Mary Richards

8 amazing warehouse conversions

By Jason Podesta
Church conversions on Grand Designs

3 amazing church conversions

By Jason Podesta

Portuguese winery conversion with a red façade

This sensitive restoration is at once both modern and inextricably linked to the history of the building

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Inside a former Victorian school cookery given a new hotel-luxe style

By Hugh Metcalf

Flat house: Inside the pioneering hempcrete barn conversion

By Hugh Metcalf
A bedroom loft conversion with Velux windows

3 inspiring loft conversions with the wow-factor

By Chanelle Moult

Before and after: a ruined Italian monastery restored

By Hugh Metcalf

Take a tour of this penthouse in the converted BBC Television Centre

By Hugh Metcalf

Take a look inside this colourful chapel conversion

By Becca Green