Builders inNotting Hill.

The Ladbroke estate's crescents and communal garden squares make Notting Hill one of London's most distinctive places to build — and one of the most procedural. Conservation-area rules shape the outside, garden committees have views about access and hours, and the houses themselves are tall, thin and unforgiving of poor sequencing. We plan W11 projects floor by floor, agree logistics with neighbours and garden committees before starting, and keep the programme honest about what a five-storey terrace does to hoisting, waste and deliveries.

The defining Notting Hill move is the lower-ground transformation: kitchen, dining and family space combined at garden level, light pulled in through enlarged rear openings and lightwells, and the floor connected properly to the garden it faces. It is structural work — openings widened, damp dealt with permanently rather than hidden — and it is joinery work, because the finished floor lives or dies on the cabinetry. We deliver both halves under one contract.

W11's stucco fronts are the postcard, and keeping them right is craft: mouldings rebuilt to profile, render repaired in compatible mixes, and paint systems chosen for breathability as much as colour. Where the street or estate follows a colour convention, we work to it — the terrace reads as one composition, and a renovation should strengthen that, not interrupt it.

Upstairs, the brief is calm and exact: stone and large-format tile set out from the room's centre lines, wetrooms tanked as a system, underfloor warmth, and fittings installed by trades who treat them as the finished article rather than another component. En-suites carved from awkward corners of tall terraces are a particular speciality.