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The classic W6 kitchen problem is the rear outrigger: a galley built for a scullery, one door, no sightline to the garden. The fix is structural before it is decorative — a steel through the original rear wall, the side return glazed over or infilled, and then a kitchen designed for the room that results. We run the whole sequence under one contract: structural opening, building control, first fix, and the fitted kitchen itself, with the joinery scribed to walls that were never straight.

Plenty of Hammersmith kitchens don't need the extension at all — a well-planned refit in the existing footprint, done in a fortnight of organised trades, transforms the room for a fraction of the disruption.

Between the Broadway and Brook Green the streets carry solid runs of mansion blocks and converted houses, and almost any serious work in them starts with the freeholder's licence to alter. We deal with that process constantly: scope drawings for the managing agent, method statements for noisy works, protection of common parts, and trades scheduled inside the block's permitted hours. Bathrooms in these buildings turn on the stack position — we plan around it first, so the design never depends on a pipe run the lease won't allow.

Brackenbury Village and the streets around St Peter's Square are conservation territory, and their frontages reward proper decoration: sash windows eased, rebalanced and repainted rather than replaced, front doors stripped and refinished, stucco and brick fronts prepared and painted in systems that suit the material. Inside, full-house redecoration follows the same prep-first logic — the finish is only ever as good as the surface under it.