SERVICES
Considered residential extensions, whole-home refurbishments, and architectural transformations delivered with clarity.
Rework an outdated or disconnected property into a home that feels coherent from room to room. We resolve layout, light, storage, services and finishes with unified project coordination.
TYPICAL SCOPE
Create the extra space your household needs without making the new work feel added on. We plan rear, side-return, wrap-around and double-storey extensions around the character of the existing home.
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Turn unused roof space into a calm bedroom, office or suite with properly considered headroom, daylight, storage and access.
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Plan the hardest-working rooms around everyday routines. We coordinate layouts, lighting, ventilation, plumbing, joinery, stone and tiling.
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Open up and reorganise your home with correct engineering, sequencing and site control.
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Move from early ideas to a buildable, coordinated proposal. We work with qualified professional partners to prepare drawings and submissions.
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FULL CAPABILITIES
From individual trade works to complete turn-key house refurbishments across Potters Bar, North London and Hertfordshire.
REAL COMPLETED WORKS
Explore authentic case studies documenting our construction stages, structural alterations, and completed residential finishes across Hertfordshire and North London.
From structural alteration and renovation through to refined interiors and a renewed exterior, this project documents the journey from construction site to completed home.
A complete rear-garden transformation at Uplands, Brookmans Park, taken from an overgrown, uneven plot through excavation and groundworks to a level lawn, paved circulation and integrated evening lighting.
A single-storey rear extension and internal re-planning that turned a compartmented Victorian ground floor into one continuous kitchen, dining and family space opening onto the garden.
Considering a house extension, loft conversion, or complete interior refurbishment across Hertfordshire or North London? Master builder Costas Joannides visits your property for a comprehensive, obligation-free structural and planning review.
OUR METHODOLOGY
A structured 4-stage building methodology that keeps drawings, structural sequencing, and daily trade work moving together cleanly.
Lifestyle & feasibility assessment
We begin with how you live, what isn't working and what success needs to look like for your home.
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Architectural drawings & approvals
Layouts, materials, permissions and scope resolved early, so the build starts from a crystal clear plan.
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Single contact & site management
One principal contact coordinates the work, communicates progress and protects every detail.
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Disciplined snagging & keys delivered
We complete, check and hand over a home that feels coherent, considered and ready to live in.
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Common questions
The earlier the better. Drawings, planning coordination and preparation for a refurbishing, extension or loft conversion project typically take time before construction begins - getting in touch early gives more time to prepare.
Sometimes, depending on scope. Extensions and single-room updates are often possible to live through; larger whole-home refurbishments may need periods where the property is unoccupied.
Yes. We coordinate design drawings, structural engineering, planning applications and building-regulation submissions with qualified professional partners.
Orama is based in Potters Bar and works across North London and Hertfordshire. Projects outside those areas may be considered depending on scope.
Rear, side-return, wrap-around and double-storey extensions - shaped around the character of the existing home and the way rooms need to connect.
Rooflight (Velux), dormer, hip-to-gable and mansard conversions, subject to the property, structure and relevant approvals.
What Our Clients Say
How homeowners evaluate our builder lead project coordination, structural sequencing, and trade standards.
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"We used Orama to dig out and lay a paved garden area. Costas is very approachable and really helped us with the choice of paving and layout. His team were hardworking and efficient and we were kept informed at each stage i.e. when materials would be delivered and removed debris would be taken away. We thoroughly recommend them."
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"The team were amazing, did a whole double storey extension and renovation very quickly and efficiently to a high standard. Costas is professional, reliable, and attentive."
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"Costas and his team are excellent. Trustworthy, great eye for detail and quality, reliable, committed and easy to work with. Very much a family business with character, integrity and accountability. Excellent."
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