A full apartment refurbishment within a white stucco Pimlico building overlooking one of Westminster's finest garden squares, restoring original period character while introducing warm oak joinery, Calacatta marble bathrooms, and a serene, light-filled interior throughout.
The brief centred on returning the apartment to the standard its location demands: generous rooms, restored plasterwork, strong natural light, and a finish palette that feels warm, permanent, and quietly expensive rather than overtly designed.
St. George's Square is one of Pimlico's most distinguished addresses — a formal Victorian garden square lined with white stucco buildings that retain the proportions, bay windows, and decorative facades of the original development. The apartment at Number 115 had been partially modernised over several decades, leaving a patchwork of dated finishes, compromised room flow, and services that no longer matched the expectations of a property in this position.
The renovation stripped everything back to the building envelope and rebuilt from there. Cornicing and ceiling roses were repaired or faithfully reproduced, sash window proportions were retained, and the principal rooms on the raised ground and first floors were allowed to breathe again — cleared of boxed-in pipework, dropped ceilings, and heavy modern fittings that had diminished their sense of scale.
New oak double doors, warm cream tones, and natural fibre flooring run through the reception rooms, creating a calm and connected sequence from entrance hall to rear garden. The bathrooms were the main material upgrade — Calacatta marble surfaces, brass fixtures, and bespoke vanity cabinetry in soft blush tones give them a hotel-grade quality without losing a residential sense of warmth and comfort.
A whole-apartment reset: repaired period fabric, reimagined circulation, upgraded services, and a finish specification that quietly matches the expectations of one of Pimlico's best garden-square addresses.
Ceiling cornicing, ceiling roses, sash window proportions, and the stucco facade detailing were repaired, cleaned, or faithfully reproduced — returning the apartment to its intended architectural language before any contemporary work was layered on top.
New oak double doors, warm cream tones, and natural fibre flooring transformed the principal living spaces into a calm, connected sequence that makes the most of the apartment's generous ceiling heights and bay-window light.
Calacatta marble surfaces, brass fittings, glass wall sconces, and bespoke blush-toned vanity cabinetry brought the wet areas up to a standard that matches the apartment's garden-square address — refined, warm, and built to last.
Behind the restored finishes, the apartment received a complete services overhaul: new plumbing, electrics, heating, ventilation, insulation upgrades, and structural repairs to ensure the home performs as well as it looks.
The programme was sequenced to protect remaining period fabric, manage the complexity of a full apartment strip-out, and coordinate specialist trades for marble, joinery, and plasterwork.
Measured surveys, condition reports, and heritage appraisals identified which elements were original and worth restoring, and where decades of piecemeal modernisation needed to be reversed before new work could begin.
Dated finishes, failed services, and later additions were removed floor by floor. Structural investigations confirmed the integrity of the original timber floors and load-bearing walls, with targeted repairs where needed.
New plumbing, electrics, heating, and ventilation were routed discreetly before specialist plasterers repaired and reproduced cornicing, ceiling roses, and wall finishes across the principal floors.
Bespoke oak doors, marble bathroom packages, vanity cabinetry, flooring, and decoration were installed — the packages that define the character of each room and establish the warm, cream-and-brass palette throughout.
Final snagging, lighting commissioning, service balancing, finish protection removal, and room-by-room client walkthroughs completed the programme, with the apartment handed over as a fully resolved, move-in-ready home.
St. George's Square sits within the Pimlico Conservation Area. External changes required heritage sensitivity, and internal work needed to respect the building's original fabric and proportions rather than simply overlaying contemporary detailing.
Renovating a period apartment means coordinating closely with building management — moving materials through communal areas, sequencing trades carefully, and coordinating wet trades with specialist joinery and marble installation while minimising disruption to other residents.
Where cornicing, ceiling roses, and decorative mouldings survived, new sections had to match perfectly in profile, depth, and finish. Where they didn't survive, faithful reproduction from site evidence and archive references was required.
The completed apartment reads as coherent and calm — every room connected by a consistent material language of warm oak, cream tones, brass hardware, and restored period plasterwork. The garden-square setting is matched by the interior for the first time in decades.
We deliver design-and-build refurbishments for townhouses, apartments, and period homes across Central London, with the same focus on heritage, craftsmanship, and finish quality shown here.
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