HOMEOWNERS Jaymeen and Neelam Patel
LOCATION Beckenham, Bromley
PROJECT Refurbishment and extension of a Victorian semi-detached villa
BUILD TIME December 2017 to March 2019
BUILD COST £384,000 (excluding kitchen and appliances)
For 12 years, Jaymeen and Neelam Patel happily lived in their three-storey Victorian semi-detached villa in Beckenham, but with a growing family, they were eventually faced with the choice of either moving house or improving and futureproofing their current home.
“We’ve always liked the house and the area, plus there’s off-street parking and good train connections,” says Jaymeen. “But for a five-bedroom Victorian house it had a small, cold and draughty kitchen. And we