Can AI Design Your Extension? What AI House-Plan Generators Get Right — and What They Miss
Type a sentence, get a floor plan. It's genuinely useful — right up to the point it matters most. Here's our honest look at what AI house-plan generators do well, and what they quietly leave out of a once-in-a-lifetime extension.
“Broken-Plan” Living: Why Open-Plan Extensions Are Being Quietly Rethought
The open-plan box has had its decade. What today's best extensions offer instead is quieter: rooms that still flow, but know how to close a door.
Biophilic Design: Why Nature-Led Homes Aren't Just a Trend
Every design movement eventually gets a marketing name. This one has fifty years of research behind it, and roughly five years of people using it to sell houseplants. Here's how to tell the difference.
Does Passivhaus Really Cost More? What New 2026 Research Actually Shows
Everyone assumes Passivhaus costs a fortune more to build. New research says otherwise — and the real figure is small enough to make the question worth asking again.
2026's Extension Trends — and Which Ones Are Actually Worth the Money
2026's extension trends, held to a higher standard than a mood board — which ideas are genuinely worth building, and which are better left on the page.