One contract, one crew, one standard. Turnkey transformation of stucco-fronted terraces, mansion blocks and garden-square houses across W8 and SW7 — from the first measure to the day we hand the keys back.
The housing stock between Kensington High Street and Holland Park is unusually consistent, and unusually unforgiving: stucco-fronted Victorian and Edwardian terraces, Edwardian mansion blocks along Cromwell Road and Queen’s Gate, garden-square houses around Kensington Square and Edwardes Square. Most were built before electricity reached them. None of them respond well to a generic main-contractor approach.
The brief in Kensington is rarely cosmetic. Most of our full refurbishments here involve structural alterations, side-return or rear extensions, full re-services, and the restoration of original detail in parallel with new bespoke joinery, kitchens and bathrooms. The programme has to be planned around all of it from day one — not improvised when the wall comes down.
This is the work we do. We design and run the project end-to-end. The same crew that takes the kitchen apart builds the new one. The same carpenters that strip the panelling restore it. There is one point of contact for the entire programme, one written specification, one schedule, and one final walk-through.
Every full refurbishment we deliver in Kensington is end-to-end. One team. One point of contact. One standard. Nothing on the project is sub-contracted to a different crew with different priorities.
Detailed measured survey, structural assessment, conservation review and a written specification covering every trade, room and finish before any work starts.
Demolition, structural alterations, extensions, basement works and party-wall coordination, all run by our trusted Kensington crew with full protection of period fabric throughout.
Plumbing, electrics, gas, heating, ventilation and data — replanned around the new layout, certified on completion. Everything that lives behind the walls done once, properly.
Kitchens, bathrooms, fitted wardrobes, panelling and built-ins designed and hand-built in-house. The carpentry that defines a Kensington house, by the carpenters who founded the company.
Premium flooring, stonework, tiling, painting and decoration to a level appropriate for the building — not adapted from a developer specification.
Full programme of in-house snagging before walk-through. We sign off the project personally and stand behind the workmanship for 12 months as standard.
A full house refurbishment in a Kensington stucco-fronted terrace is not the same brief as a refurbishment in a new-build apartment. The variables that matter are different, the constraints are different, and the assumptions that work elsewhere fail here.
We have refurbished Kensington homes for long enough to know what those variables are: where the load-bearing walls live, how Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea conservation areas affect external work, how mansion-block managing agents handle freeholder approvals, and where access genuinely constrains delivery. All of it is factored in at quote stage and built into the programme, not discovered halfway through.
Real reviews from ProCraft clients in Surrey and Windsor. Further verified reviews available on request.
I’ve hired Igor to do the flooring in my kitchen and I can assure this has been one of the best decisions I made. My kitchen now looks immaculate and I couldn’t be happier with ProCraft’s services. Fast, reliable and delivers quality to your needs. Very well recommended.
We needed help with repairs after a water leak. Igor came back to me quickly with a quote and completed the job that weekend. Would highly recommend.
Not every Kensington brief is a full refurbishment. Many of our clients commission us for a single service first — a kitchen, a bathroom, a floor — and continue from there.
If you are just outside Kensington, we almost certainly cover you for full house refurbishment. Explore our adjacent area pages.
Igor will arrange a free consultation at your Kensington property within 48 hours. No obligation, no pressure — just an honest conversation about scope, programme and what is possible inside the building you have.