Home Renovation in Chelsea

Chelsea packs several kinds of house into a short walk. There are Georgian terraces around the old village and Cheyne Walk, four-storey Victorian townhouses on the streets running north of the King's Road, whole roads of two-up two-down artisan cottages built for workers on the estates, and post-war and modern apartment buildings along the river. Plots are narrow, gardens are small, and every square metre is worth working for.

Most projects here are therefore about reorganisation rather than expansion: opening the ground floor without losing the front room's proportions, digging or lowering a lower-ground floor to gain a real kitchen, taking a roof up into a loft, and rebuilding services that were last touched decades ago. A large share of the borough is in a conservation area, and much of it is on estate leaseholds where the freeholder's consent runs alongside the council's.

We plan Chelsea builds around that reality: licences for alterations and landlord approvals obtained before work starts, party wall awards agreed with neighbours a wall's thickness away, deliveries scheduled around resident parking, and a programme that keeps a small site tidy. See house refurbishment and bespoke joinery, which is what makes a narrow house work.