House Extensions in Edinburgh

For many families, extending is the best way to get the home they need without leaving a street, school or neighbourhood they love. It is also an opportunity to fix the parts of a house that have never quite worked — a dark kitchen, a disconnected garden, too few bedrooms.

• Create a kitchen, dining and living space that suits modern family life
• Connect the house to the garden with generous glazing
• Add bedrooms, bathrooms or a home office
• Increase the long-term value and usability of the property

Rear extensions are the most common way to add ground-floor space. In Edinburgh's villas and terraces, they typically replace an outshot or small kitchen with a larger, brighter room that opens onto the garden. Careful detailing where new meets old is what makes the result feel considered rather than added on.

A kitchen extension is often the heart of a project — a single space for cooking, eating and living. Planning the kitchen layout, services, lighting and glazing together from the start produces a far better result than treating the kitchen as a separate fit-out.

Where there is space beside the house, a side-return or wraparound extension can transform a narrow layout. These projects often involve more structural work to the existing building, and benefit from early input on steelwork and sequencing.

Substantial extensions — including two-storey additions — can add bedrooms and bathrooms above new living space. These projects need careful coordination of structure, roofing, services and the internal reconfiguration of the existing house.

Many of the best projects combine an extension with renovation of the existing house. Designing and building them together means the whole home works as one, and you only live through the disruption once. Read more about our home renovations.