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Dec 17
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Luxury Property Renovations

Luxury Property Renovations

We deliver truly exceptional and bespoke luxury property renovations in London.

At Edge2 our reputation has been built through the recommendations of previous clients. We offer a truly professional service where our personable team build in depth working relationships with our clients. We strive to ensure we fully understand their wishes for their project.

Our handling of the project goes from design through to completion.

Process

With London’s many unique and often truly standout properties, in creating a conversion design we listen carefully to our client before applying the requirements to the design. Our designs will meet your exacting needs.

Our approach will be sensitive to the original property and those in the surrounding area. We are careful to ensure that your unique design not only perfectly reflects your requirements but also is sympathetic to the location, the size and the context of project.

Throughout the project you will have a lead designer and project manager on hand to help make your vision a reality. We have a highly skilled and experienced in house design team to provide a detailed design service.

Brief

Our most important step before putting pen to paper on the design is to spend time with you, our client. We spend this time to obtain your unique view on the project. We will only succeed in the project development, and ultimate delivery if we deliver a living space that encompasses your style, and the way in which you will live in and use the finished property.

Once we understand all of this we can build a tailored brief. Understanding your needs, your lead designer will then work with you and our other internal teams to produce a brief. This brief must meet timescales, style, and budget. From there a proposal will be developed. This includes the completed brief, costings for fixtures, fittings and equipment as well as the associated design costs.

Concept

Once we have agreed the brief we will then move on to present the concept design. Using state of the art drawing and modelling we will demonstrate themes and styling through drawings, models and samples. We will illustrate any elevation or architectural changes and discuss the reasons and impact. In compiling the concept you will have been involved throughout. Thus ensuring that your personal feedback is received and actioned through our collaborative approach.

Details

Those details are what truly communicates your personal style. Once we’ve received approval of the concept our experienced in-house team will finalise all the details including any bespoke furnishings or joinery. Finally the package is completed with construction drawings, finishes and schedule.

Realisation

We then breathe life into your project. Commencing on site, our team of designers and project managers are on hand to attend site meetings.

When completing a Luxury property renovation attention to detail is key. You need to be sure that the contractor managing the project will deliver a flawless execution through meticulous planning, exceptional project management, using craftsmen to implement the physical build.

An eye for the finest detail, an unswerving approach to achieving the highest possible standard of finish, demanding that all the appointed tradesmen show respect to the often rare or exquisite materials in use.

Finally an immovable stance on what the final result should look like, appointing only the very best contractors, and then still being willing to demand that the jobs are repeatedly done again and again if necessary so that the required standard is achieved.

Once we are happy that the project is complete, we will then invite you to see the curtain rise on your new home. We will be there to demonstrate each element. After completion we provide professional support as needed.

 

Dec 22
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Bathroom Renovation

5 Tips to Remodelling your Bathroom

5 Tips to Remodelling your Bathroom

 

Remodelling your bathroom can significantly add to both the sale-ability and rent-ability of your property. Particularly in London’s highly competitive property market, a newly renovated, sophisticated, trendy bathroom can increase your chance of snapping up the perfect tenant or buyer.

At EDGE2, we’re London bathroom remodelling specialists, and here are our top tips to getting the best look possible:

1) Try to keep plumbing it is

Plumbers are one of the most expensive parts of remodelling a bathroom. If you are able to leave the plumbing as it is, and create your design around your existing pipe locations, you will save a significant amount of both time and money.

2) Sophisticated feature fittings

Round mirrors and indirect pendant lights are a great way to add moodiness to a design and give it an eye-catching sophisticated look.

3) Embrace the size

If you have a small bathroom, it’s often tempting to use large mirrors to give the illusion of more space. Sometimes it’s best to embrace the size and make it look chic rather than big. This is particularly true on en-suites and second bathrooms.

4) Use warm colours NOT blue

Aside from giving a bathroom the look of a public lav, there are plenty of studies that talk about how light refection on blue surfaces have a cold effect on the skin. To give your bathroom a warm and inviting feel, use soft, warm tones for the walls and accent with tiling and fitting colours to match your taste.

5) His and hers vanity

If you have the space and want your bathroom to really stand out, create a his & hers vanity. As well as giving you a premium luxury fell, you will get the practicality of each having your own space. After all, this is the secret to a healthy and happy married life – apparently!

 

Got a London property to renovate? Why not let us take care of the whole project for you. We provide a fully managed, end-to-end service using only 100% in-house trades.

Give us a call on +44(0)207 112 9081 or fill out our contact form and we’d be happy to chat through your project and provide you with an obligation-free quote.

 

Dec 20
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living room renovation / London Property Renovation / Top renovation tips

5 Tips to Renovating Your Living Room

5 Tips to Renovating Your Living Room

When renovating your property, it’s easy to overlook the living room – in fact they often come third after kitchens and bathrooms. This is likely to be the room where you spend most of your time, at least when you’re not sleeping, so getting it right is the key to a successful renovation.

If, like most properties in London where space comes at a premium, the property you are renovating has a multi-function living room, it’s even more important to plan properly.

At EDGE2 we have a huge amount of experience renovating modern and period properties in London. Here are 5 tips we think will help you achieve the look you are after:

1) Define the space

If the living room is going to be for relaxing, watching TV, gaming as well as a formal dining space, it’s really important to define the areas. Sometimes a statement light fitting and a carpet is all it takes to create definition in a room. Other focal points, such as wallpapers or different pain tones will also help achieve the desired effect.

2) Natural light

Particularly in the UK, where we suffer from long dark winters, how you conduct natural light in the living room is key. If your property doesn’t have huge windows, try to maximise what light you do have coming in. Mirrors are a very cost effective way to not only increase the feeling of space in your living room, but they can also be used take natural light to less well light parts of the room.

3) Focal points

In period properties focal points are naturally provided by the property but in contemporary apartments is always useful to create focal points to command a design.

4) Furniture choices

This is often the most difficult point for most of our clients, particularly when the property being renovated is already fully furnished. It’s expensive to replace everything, and easy to get emotionally attached to a sofa, certain pieces of furniture, or the whole room! The key is to make sure that all the furniture, whether old or new, is proportional to the space. This is of course much easier said than done – but we can help you come up with a design that works.

5) Statement lighting

Even if your budget is tight you should ALWAYS invest in one light fitting that will become a talking point.

 

If you have, or are looking to buy a property in London to renovate, EDGE2 can help. We are boutique developers with over 30 years combined experience in renovating London properties. We provide a fully project managed service. We can help you get planning permission (even in conservation areas), produce 3D architect drawings and do all the work for you, using 100% in-house trades.

For more information, download our brochure here, or give Julian a call on +44(0)207 112 9081.

Dec 8
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London Property Extension / London Property Renovation

Growing family? Extend your home to keep up

Growing family? Extend your home to keep up

With London property prices showing no sign of falling, it’s difficult for most growing families to afford the cost of moving to bigger property.

If your home is bursting at the seams, extending may be the only solution to get you the extra space you need, without breaking the bank.

Adding an extension to your existing home is also a great way to increase it’s value, making it easier to take the next step up the property ladder in the future.

We recently helped Amanda and her growing family to extend and renovate their 1 bed ground floor flat in Fulham. We provided her with a fully managed, end-end service, including architect’s drawings & 3D visualisations and all the work was carried out by our in-house team of trades.

“As the family grew we needed to move up the ladder. We met Julian who focused our budget on the areas that would add value.”

“It felt so good to simply hand over and let Julian and his team organise things. His drawings were spot on and helped us visualise the entire project before they started.”

The project included the addition of a 120 ft2 rear garden extension, an extra bedroom, kitchen diner and a new bathroom with light well.

Amanda’s flat is in a conservation area, which makes obtaining planning permission for external modifications to properties particularly tricky. Using our in-house designers and architects, we were able to take care of this for her, taking all the stress out of it and got the permissions needed.

Throughout the flat, we installed high-tech sound-proofing, under-floor heating and a state-of-the-art climate control system to give Amanda and her family a cosy and quiet space.

The interior design touches added to the cosy, modern feel of the flat, as well as incorporating built-in storage keep all the family’s clutter hidden.

Outside, we created a unique & contemporary, child-friendly terraced garden with a seating area and raised beds.

Amanda is thrilled with their new, up-sized home, saying “I couldn’t recommend EDGE2 highly enough. Thanks guys!”

If, like Amanda, you have a growing family and need more space to grow into, be it an extension or simply a redesign to make better use of the space you already have, give us a call on 0207 112 9081.

Regardless of your budget and the size of your property, we can help you maximise your space, increase the property value and take care of all the planning, design and construction work for you. Our work is guaranteed, as is your satisfaction with the final product. Give us a call now to find out more.

Oct 31
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London Property Renovation

Moving up the property ladder in uncertain times

London Property Renovation
Moving up the property ladder in uncertain times

Buying a property in London, whether for the first time or as your life evolves, is stressful.

You are about to spend more money than you can count and to make things even worse, every article, report or conversation you have regarding property at the moment is of the doom and gloom variety.

However, if you are looking to move up the ladder and the market is moving down, you can snap a fixer upper at a great price.

The challenge if the market continues to drop, is that your property is also going to be worth less when you come to your next move up the ladder. So how can you ensure your property retains it’s value so you can raise the extra funds you need for your next deposit?

Simple, you have to set the right budget and turn your property from a fixer upper into a turnkey before you put it on the market. So, by the time you come to sell your property, the price reflects the works you’ve done and it brings in the extra cash you need.

The key to success is making clever investment decisions, focus on areas where you can add value and avoid the temptation to be seduced by finishes you’d love but won’t add value.

Take Katharina from Southfields SW18, for example, who recently contacted us to upgrade her 1 bed apartment to afford a 2 bed in the same area. She invested £24k in the renovations, which generated a £61k price increase from the previous valuation. Find out More…

Remember,  penny pinching is not solution – clever investment is the only way to climb up the property ladder in these uncertain times.

Give us a call on 0207 112 9081 and let us take care of it for you.