House Extensions andKitchen Installationsin Derby

Derby's housing runs from dense Victorian terraces close to the centre out through substantial inter-war suburbs to large post-war estates and modern development on the edges. We work across the city including Littleover, Mickleover, Allestree, Oakwood, Chaddesden, Spondon, Alvaston, Normanton and Darley Abbey.

The city grew around the railway works and later Rolls-Royce, and the housing stock records that: rows of solid, well-built terraces for the works, then generous inter-war semis as the suburbs pushed out, then estate development from the 1950s onward.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Normanton, Pear Tree and the inner suburbs typically have a rear outrigger, a narrow side return and a small dark kitchen. The transformative project on those homes is a rear or side return extension combined with structural openings, producing a proper kitchen-diner across the width of the plot.

Inter-war semis in Littleover, Allestree and Chaddesden are the classic extension property: hipped roof, decent plot depth, attached or integral garage. They suit rear extensions, hip-to-gable loft conversions and garage conversions equally well.

Newer estate housing at Oakwood, Mickleover and the city fringes is structurally sound but often laid out in small separate rooms. Internal alterations plus a well-designed kitchen installation usually achieve more than adding floor area.

Kitchen installations and kitchen-diner extensions dominate. Most Derby enquiries we receive start with the kitchen: it is too small, in the wrong place, or cut off from the room the family actually sits in.

We carry out full kitchen fits including joinery, plumbing, electrics, tiling and making good, which means one team handles the extension shell and the kitchen inside it: no gap between trades where the job stalls and no argument about whose responsibility a detail is.