Every period home renovation reaches the same moment. The carpet comes up, and you hold your breath.

Adding an extension to a period home is one of the decisions homeowners worry about most. Here's what I learned from doing it to my own Edwardian semi - including the planning dispute, the design choices, and what I'd do differently.

There’s a decision that comes up in almost every period home project I work on, and it rarely has a simple answer. Do you restore the original feature, or do you recreate it?