GS Renovation creates open-plan living across Islington, opening up the compartmentalised ground floors of Barnsbury, Highbury and Holloway terraces into bright kitchen-diners, and refining the layouts of Clerkenwell's warehouse conversions. We handle the steel and the finishes as one job.
Open-plan kitchen-diners in Islington terraces
The classic Islington open-plan conversion opens the rear of a Victorian terrace, knocking the kitchen through to the middle room to create one long, sociable kitchen-diner. Because the dividing wall is load-bearing solid brick, this means a steel beam, padstones and a building control inspection, and often a Party Wall Act notice where the wall is shared.
Where there is a side return, we can go further and infill it to widen the space, bringing in light through rooflights and glazed doors, a hugely popular upgrade on the borough's terraces.
Broken-plan options for period homes
Open-plan is not the only route. In Islington's finer Georgian houses, where the reception rooms carry original cornicing and shutters, a broken-plan layout, part-height walls or a Crittall-style glazed divider can open the space up while keeping some separation and the period character.
Whichever route suits your home, we level the floors across the rooms, remove thresholds, and rework the lighting, heating and electrics so the finished space reads and functions as one.
- Knock-throughs between reception rooms
- Open-plan kitchen-diner conversions
- Steel beam installation to remove the dividing wall
- Side-return integration for wider spaces
- Broken-plan layouts and Crittall-style dividers
Why Islington Homeowners Choose GS Renovation
For an open-plan conversion in Islington you get the structural work and the fit-out from a single team: engineer-designed steel, building control, floors, lighting and heating, all delivered by GS Renovation with over 30 years of experience on the borough's period homes.
- Free, no-obligation quotations
- Over 30 years of experience
- Dedicated project management
- Fully insured and guaranteed work
- Building control and planning support
- Clean, tidy and reliable tradespeople