Home Renovation in Westminster

Residential Westminster is more varied than its address suggests. Pimlico's grid of stuccoed terraces sits south of Victoria; red-brick Victorian and Edwardian mansion blocks run through Victoria, Westminster and St James's; and behind them are period houses converted into flats decades ago, often without much regard for how sound travels. Nearly all of it is within a conservation area, and much of it is leasehold.

Most work here is therefore apartment work, and apartment work in Westminster has a particular shape: you are rarely moving structure, and you are almost always moving services. Kitchens and bathrooms relocate within the constraints of existing risers and waste runs; floors are rebuilt with acoustic layers because the lease requires it; heating comes off communal systems that dictate what you can install.

We start these projects with the lease and the managing agent rather than the mood board, because the licence for alterations sets what is actually buildable. Then we build it — see home refurbishment and bathroom renovation, where most of the technical difficulty in a flat lives.