- Following 3.1K
- Followers 6.9K
- Engagement 2.02%
- Avg likes 145
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About Somner Macdonald Architects
Somner Macdonald Architects (@somnermacdonaldarchitects) is an Architectural Designer creator on Instagram, also filed under Home & Decor. The account has 6,915 followers and 587 published posts. Recent posts average 145 likes and 4 comments, an engagement rate of 2.02%.
Somner Macdonald Architects belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Somner Macdonald Architects follows 3,054 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.3 times the size of the list followed. Somner Macdonald Architects is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Somner Macdonald Architects under Architectural Designer, with Home & Decor as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Somner Macdonald Architects runs to 20 words across 2 lines. The bio tags #Edinburgh and #EastLothian. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Somner Macdonald Architects dates from November 2025.
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587 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Somner Macdonald Architects, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. Somner Macdonald Architects has built a substantial archive of 587 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 12 followers for each post published. Somner Macdonald Architects also keeps 1 story highlight on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 108 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include house, extension, property, project and inside. The captions tag #victorianarchitecture, #eastlothian, #residentialarchitecture, #scottisharchitecture and #coastalarchitecture.
The brief? Transform a dark Victorian terrace hemmed in by a crumbling rear annex into something light, generous and connected to the garden beyond.
Working within a conservation area, we chose a pale Belgian brick that sits quietly alongside the original house; new but completely at home. A concrete string-course and detailing through the brickwork is our nod to the Victorian detailing of the front of the property.
Inside, a large rooflight floods the open plan kitchen and dining space with light. Oak floors, green toned cabinetry and warm timber carry the garden palette inside. Glazed sliding doors dissolve the boundary between inside and out.
Three projects (we are currently working on our fourth). One client. A home that’s grown with her family. That’s the kind of work we love doing; wherever it takes us.
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#scotisharchitect #londonarchitecture #houseextension #victorianterrace
A Victorian house in North Berwick, fully stripped back. Bricks from long closed makers. Rough cut joists. A fireplace uncovered in each room. Maker’s marks pressed into clay that’s been hidden behind lath and plaster for over a hundred years.
This is an often misunderstood step in the design process; reading what’s there, and deciding what to honour.
The renovation and extension is underway here in our St Margaret’s Road project. Watch this space.
#SomnerMacdonald #VictorianArchitecture #NorthBerwick #EastLothian #RenovationProject
A Victorian sandstone villa; curved bay windows, covered veranda, the weight of the 19th century in every dressed stone, meets a curved glazed pavilion that extends its base like a quiet counterpoint. Corten columns, a sedum roof, glass, that all adds without imposing.
Inside, the same dialogue continues. Terracotta brick underfoot, clay plaster walls, Douglas fir cabinetry; materials that remember something older.
This is what we believe a sensitive addition should do: not mimic, not contrast for contrast’s sake, but attune. To find the underlying logic of a place; its palette, its rhythm, its relationship to light and landscape and enhance the original property.
The Victorian builders understood permanence. We believe that the best contemporary work understands it too, just differently.
#ResidentialArchitecture #ContemporaryExtension #VictorianArchitecture #ScottishArchitecture
Herringbone brick runs unbroken from the covered terrace into the kitchen and dining room beyond. The same earthy tone that appears underfoot reappears in the columns: unfinished, oxidised, rooted in the coastal geology of the site. Limed Douglas Fir joinery picks up the muted tones of the pale grasses adorning the clifftop. The sea is not decoration; it is the horizon that every room is organised around.
In form, the curved extension reaches into the garden, its red columns echoing those of the existing house, and its green roof reading as borrowed landscape. Old and new held together by material logic rather than pastiche.
Within the studio we frequently return to a single question: what does it mean to make a building that belongs to its place?
#architecture #interiorarchitecture #coastalarchitecture #residentialarchitecture #edinburgharchitects
This clifftop property in Dunbar, with primary rooms reoriented to face north toward the Bass Rock and the Firth beyond. The existing house is to be carefully conserved; a new western extension crafted in warming sandstone, timber and terracotta, its facade of deep-set glazing and vertical fins able to open wide on still days or draw close against the haar.
The material palette takes its cues directly from the site — the red sandstone strata of the cliff face, the muted greys of the water, the warmth of the rock at low tide. Inside and outside in constant conversation.
Our approach here has been to create an Architecture that doesn’t compete with landscape, but Architecture that listens to it.
#dunbar #eastlothian #scottisharchitecture #coastalarchitecture #conservation residentialarchitecture
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Our recently completed renovation of a Category-A apartment in Edinburgh’s New Town is a prime example of the importance of considered design from the earliest stages of the design process.
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From building materials to furniture, at every turn decisions were made carefully and in collaboration with our clients. From clay plaster, Douglas Fir floors. Tadelakt plaster in wet areas, brass ironmongery.
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More information on this project can be found on our website. Link in the bio.
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#edinburgharchitect
#considereddesign
#scottisharchitect
#timelessdesign
#CelebratingDesign
#DesignInnovation
#EdinburghArchitecture
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We just couldn’t help but share a sneak peak at what’s to come. Keep your eyes peeled for more to follow.
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We could not be more excited to share some images of the team here at & of our new studio, all by the wonderful.
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#DesignExcellence
#ArchitectureRecognition
#CelebratingDesign
#DesignInnovation
#EdinburghArchitecture
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Set within generous grounds the Arts and Crafts purchased by our clients had remained relatively un-touched, other than an 1980’s unsympathetic side kitchen extension. The brief set by our clients was to maintain the overall character of the property that they had attracted them to the property in the first instance but to make it fit for modern family life. The solution developed involved a large kitchen, living & dining extension, and a deep retrofit of the existing house.
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Within this video directors of Somner Macdonald Sean Gaule & Tom Armistead introduce a few key concept ideas behind the scheme developed.
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To watch the full length video please follow the YouTube link within the project page on our website, link in the bio.
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Somner Macdonald Architects's engagement
Somner Macdonald Architects's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.02%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 50 followers. An average post collects 145 likes and 4 comments, close to 36 likes for each comment.
Engagement rate
2.02%
- Avg likes
- 145
- Avg comments
- 4
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 50
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Who is Somner Macdonald Architects?
Somner Macdonald Architects (@somnermacdonaldarchitects) is an Architectural Designer creator on Instagram, also filed under Home & Decor. Somner Macdonald Architects is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Somner Macdonald Architects runs to 20 words across 2 lines.
How many followers does Somner Macdonald Architects have?
Somner Macdonald Architects has 6,915 followers on Instagram (6.9K). Somner Macdonald Architects follows 3,054 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.3 times the size of the list followed. Somner Macdonald Architects has built a substantial archive of 587 posts.
What is Somner Macdonald Architects's engagement rate?
Somner Macdonald Architects's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.02%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 50 followers. An average post collects 145 likes and 4 comments, close to 36 likes for each comment.
What does Somner Macdonald Architects post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Somner Macdonald Architects under Architectural Designer, with Home & Decor as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Somner Macdonald Architects, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Somner Macdonald Architects repeatedly use the words house, extension, property, project and inside. Somner Macdonald Architects's captions carry hashtags such as #victorianarchitecture, #eastlothian and #residentialarchitecture. Somner Macdonald Architects writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #Edinburgh and #EastLothian. Somner Macdonald Architects keeps 1 story highlight, which open with a free Flinque account.
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