A Renovation Company in London That Owns the Whole Result

The Renovation Company That Carries the Risk

Most renovation projects go wrong in the gap between the people who design them and the people who build them. The architect draws a scheme, hands over a pack, and steps back; the builder prices it, finds it does not quite work or costs far more than expected, and the homeowner is left in the middle, paying for the difference and refereeing the blame. A design-and-build renovation company exists to close that gap entirely.

This page is about choosing a renovation company, renovation contractor or design-and-build firm — what to look for, and how we work. We are a single integrated studio: RIBA Chartered architects, MIStructE structural engineers, RICS-regulated chartered surveying through our sister practice, Hampstead Chartered Surveyors, MEP consultants, interior designers and our own directly-employed core build teams — all under one roof and one JCT fixed-price contract. The architect who designs your project walks the site every week. The estimator who priced your bill is the person you call when you want to change something. There is one company responsible from the first sketch to the last snag.

We renovate, refurbish, extend and convert — whole houses and flats, kitchens and bathrooms, lofts and basements — but the constant is the model. We resolve the design, the structure, the services and the cost before we start, price it as a single fixed sum, and deliver it with one accountable team. When something unexpected is found behind a wall, there is no one to pass it to, because there is only us. That is what a renovation company should mean.

We have delivered 106+ residential projects across NW3, NW8, NW1, SW1, SW3, SW7, W1 and W11 — Georgian townhouses, Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas, mansion flats and contemporary homes — with particular depth in the conservation areas and period housing where heritage and planning expertise matter most. If you are looking for the specific service rather than the company, our house renovation, refurbishment, extensions and loft conversion pages go into detail.

The reason this model matters is that a renovation is, financially and emotionally, one of the largest projects most people ever commission — and the construction industry is not short of cautionary tales. Budgets that drift, programmes that slip, contractors who disappear mid-job, and the slow, exhausting process of refereeing between a designer and a builder who each insist the problem belongs to the other. Almost all of it traces back to fragmented responsibility. When no single party owns the whole result, the homeowner owns it by default — including every gap, every assumption and every unforeseen cost. An integrated renovation company exists precisely to take that ownership off you.

It also changes the quality of the work itself, not just the management of it. Because our architects know what our build teams can deliver, our engineers know what the trades will be asked to install, and our estimators have priced a hundred similar projects nearby, the design that reaches site is one that can actually be built as drawn — rather than an elegant scheme that unravels the first time a wall is opened. Decisions that would bounce for weeks between separate firms are resolved in a single conversation. The result is a project that runs to programme, holds its price, and is finished to a standard that a disconnected team rarely achieves.

Below is how we work, why clients choose us, and the questions worth asking any renovation company before you commit your home and your budget to them.