We have a 2 bedroom flat in Edinburgh, that after being let for 10 years, required a lot of work. On top of that - we had a considerable issue with ‘smokers drift’ - tobacco smoke drifting through the old floorboards and other gaps around piping etc. from the flat below that made the flat unsuitable for our young son to stay in. We had a redundant gas fire that needed to be removed - along with the fireplace. A new kitchen needed to be fitted. This was a huge job. Brunon and his team ripped back everything - the floorboards were removed throughout the entire flat, new floorboards down along with a membrane to stop the smoke, all gaps sealed where possible, and new flooring laid throughout. The plaster in the living room was coming away from the walls - so the that was made sound and re-plastered along with the ceiling. Old kitchen was pulled out and a new one fitted. New radiators and heating pipes fitted throughout. And finally the flat was decorated throughout. It’s been done to a really high standard and I’m delighted with the work - Brunon ensured we were satisfied with what had been done and checked in several times after the work finished to make sure there were no outstanding ‘niggles’. Brunon and his team were great to work with - this was a huge job and quite stressful for us, particularly as we weren’t in Edinburgh to oversee the work. Brunon kept infrequent contact - updating us with photos and letting us know what he needed from us to keep on track. One of the major benefits we found in working with Brunon was Anna. I’ve had the experience in the past where I’ve left endless messages with tradies and no one gets back to you, or does days later (usually when you’re in a meeting at work). Having the ability to chat to someone on the phone to find out information when it suits you while knowing you aren’t disturbing the work was great. Anna really helped to reassure us that everything we were concerned about would be taken care of, and in a timely manner. This was a great benefit of using this team. I’d highly recommend this trader and Brunon will be the first person we contact if we need any further work in the future.
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Home renovations in Edinburgh
Make yourself more at home.
Sweet Homes plans and manages home renovations in Edinburgh: whole flats, houses and projects that change several rooms at once. One team supplies and fits the agreed work in your written quote, so you are not left coordinating separate trades.
You may love the character of your home and still wish it worked better. Perhaps the kitchen feels cramped, or a room has never found its purpose. We talk through your ideas with you, then bring the work and materials together around the agreed plan.
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- Whole-home renovations
- Period properties
- Bespoke joinery
- Edinburgh & surrounding areas
Tell us about your renovation
Tell us your general area and which rooms you want to change and what you want the renovation to achieve. Plans, measurements and a settled budget can follow. Send your enquiry by form or email. We will reply and arrange a follow-up call to talk through the project.
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Your home, thoughtfully brought together.
We start by listening to how you live and what you would love to change. Together, we agree the work and set it out in a written quote.
Your ideas belong in the plans
We talk through how you want your home to look and feel, as well as how it needs to work. You stay involved in the choices as the renovation takes shape.
Help with the finer details
The materials and finishes are part of what makes a home feel yours. We agree them with you, buy the products included in your quote and arrange their delivery around the work.
A clear way forward when plans change
When a change is proposed, we explain what it means for cost or timing. You can consider the choice with that information in front of you, following the approval process in your contract.
Consideration for your daily routine
We plan with your daily routine in mind, talking through access and how the work will affect the rooms and services you rely on. We plan deliveries and the stages of the work around material availability.
What does a managed renovation include?
It means Sweet Homes coordinates and carries out the agreed building work, rather than leaving you to organise separate trades. Your written quote sets out the work and materials included.
Does this include architectural design and approvals?
You appoint any architect or structural engineer your project needs, and anyone needed to handle permissions or approvals. Sweet Homes manages and carries out the agreed building work, using their drawings and specifications where required.
Selected project work
Room finishes, windows and fitted storage from our home-renovation portfolio.
What a home renovation can include
You appoint any architect, structural engineer or approval professional the proposal needs. Sweet Homes carries out the agreed construction.
Scope, programme and quotation details
The build may include kitchens and bathrooms alongside rewiring, plumbing, heating, plastering, structural alterations, flooring, decoration and fitted joinery. We put more weight on the services, structure and opening-up than on the number of rooms in a list. Those are the parts that reach across the property and become difficult to change after finishes go in.
Electrical and gas work is carried out and certified through the competent trades we appoint. If you are still deciding who to appoint, how to choose a renovation contractor in Edinburgh sets out the checks worth making first. If you have not bought the property yet, our builder-led feasibility walkthrough is the separate paid route for testing the visible renovation scope and cost drivers before you commit.
You appoint the architect, structural engineer and building-warrant route where the proposal needs them. Sweet Homes remains the contractor. Damp investigation or sound-reduction work may be included inside a wider renovation, but neither is offered here as a separate service.
Sweet Homes builds in Edinburgh and in Dunfermline and south-west Fife, and pre-purchase feasibility checks are written up by area for Colinton and Balerno. Homeowners researching renovations in Glasgow or in Stirling will find the same guidance there, without a construction offer attached.
Older properties do not reveal every condition at survey. If opening-up changes the known scope, the affected work pauses while we record what is visible. The project contract sets the variation and approval process.
Where the brief includes a permanent desk, agree the equipment and cable access alongside the room layout. The home office joinery page covers those parts of the specification. If the proposal uses existing space below ground, the basement conversion page sets out the feasibility questions before a construction scope is priced.
The Sweet Homes process
Thought through together. Carried out with care.
We discuss how you want to use your home and work through the rooms, services and finishes with you. Your written quote sets out the building work before we begin.
Discuss your home
Tell us which rooms you want to change and what you want them to do for you. Property information, photographs and any prepared drawings help us work through the brief with you.
Understand the property
After a phone call to work through your brief, we assess the property and the information the proposal relies on, with a site visit where useful. The measured space and existing conditions inform the agreed work.
Set out the detail
Your written quote identifies the building work and materials included. Where design, engineering or approvals need professional advice, you appoint the advisers your proposal needs.
Plan the work
Before work starts, we account for product availability, access and the sequence between trades. Room clearance and any temporary arrangements are agreed for the project.
Carry out and keep you informed
We carry out the agreed construction. If opening-up reveals an unexpected condition outside the agreed work, the affected work pauses. We record the finding and its effect, then follow the contract’s approval process for changes.
Check and hand over
We complete the checks and handover records set out in the project contract, alongside the agreed work and materials.
Care where the details meet
A new floor can affect door clearances and fitted joinery. Changing several rooms can connect plumbing, electrical work, finishes and the order of installation. Those connections belong in the written quote and the planning, alongside the materials you choose.
Clear decisions along the way
You need to know what is included, which information the quote relies on and how a proposed change affects the work. We explain adjustments and follow the project’s agreed approval process for any change to price or timing.
Practical arrangements and what the work includes
Start with the rooms you want to change and any drawings already prepared. We reply by email, ask for the property information and photographs, then arrange a follow-up call to work through the brief. A site visit follows where useful, before the written quotation.
The quotation identifies the construction scope and the information it relies on. Before work starts, the programme needs to account for product availability, access and the sequence between trades. A new floor, for example, can affect door clearances and fitted joinery as well as the room where it is laid.
For clearing rooms and agreeing access, use our guide to preparing your home for renovation.
Where opening-up reveals a condition outside the known scope, the affected work pauses while the finding and its effect are recorded. The project contract sets the approval process for changes to price or programme and the checks and records required at handover.
For the full sequence and each party’s responsibilities, see how Sweet Homes works.
Can we stay in the house during a renovation?
Usually, for a single room, kitchen or bathroom project. Rewiring, extensive plumbing or heating work can remove the essential services that make a larger occupied project workable, so we discuss that part of the programme before site work and may recommend a holiday over the disruptive stretch.
Temporary services and clean or dirty zones are agreed for the contract in front of us.
If your project includes a kitchen renovation or bathroom renovation, those service pages describe the room work in detail. Fitted wardrobes and media walls cover the more specific joinery scopes.
For added or reclaimed space, see house extensions, loft conversions and garage conversions. Each page explains its construction scope and professional boundaries.
The renovation cost guide explains allowances, assumptions and exclusions across these scopes. For a listed property, listed building renovation explains the professional and consent boundaries for the work.
Scope and planning cost
Read the budget alongside the agreed work, materials, preparation and installation work, and the coordination between trades. A well-described quote makes those choices clear, so you can assess the proposed work and compare what each price includes.
Indicative budget. £9,600–£480,000+ including VAT for home renovation work in Edinburgh. The range is broad because each property and scope is different; it is not a quote for a room count or type of work.
You appoint any architect, structural engineer or approval professional the proposal needs. Sweet Homes carries out the agreed construction.
A written quotation follows assessment of the property and agreed scope.
Home renovation budgets in Edinburgh
Indicative budgets are £9,600–£480,000+ including VAT.
This is a broad guide, not a quotation or a price promise for any particular feature or design. The final price depends on the measured property, existing conditions, agreed scope and selected specification. A written quotation follows assessment of those details.
Tell us about your project
Stage, timing and budget are optional for your first enquiry.
Whole-home renovation reviews
Two published records of whole-flat renovations in Edinburgh.
We have a 1960’s flat that was looking very tired. Brunon and the team went through the whole flat (except for the kitchen and bathroom which we had done last year) and massively upgraded the feel of the place. It now looks and feels so much better. The specific things they did were; * Replace all of the laminate flooring with LVT vinyl tiles. They made this flow through the flat so that there are no joins in the doorways and it looks fantastic. *Replace all of the skirting boards * Replace all of the internal doors with solid core oak doors including replacing the door surround *Installed a pocket door for the kitchen which has given us back loads of space in the kitchen * Move a radiator and conceal other heating pipework in the walls * Move electrical sockets * Tidy up the walls- remove wall paper; fill in socket blanks from when the flat was rewired years ago, sink some cables into the wall that had been in surface trunking, plasterboard over some parts to provide a smooth finish * Repaint throughout - walls and ceilings and all woodwork * Wallpapered a single wall in each room * Hung a curtain rail and coat hooks etc There were challenges due to Covid which impacted the time taken versus the expected time (workers got pinged on the app etc) and materials are a nightmare for everyone at the moment. However Brunon kept me informed and we worked together to get through it.
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Home renovation planning guides
Use these guides to define the scope, compare quotations and decide how work across several rooms should be sequenced.
Home renovation questions
We supply and fit every job. We do not offer labour-only work and we do not offer fit-only work, because one firm owning both the materials and the workmanship gives you one clear line of responsibility. The whole sequence, from first call to handover, is set out on how we work.
How much does a home renovation cost in Edinburgh?
Indicative budgets are £9,600–£480,000+ including VAT. This broad range is not a quote for a room count or project type. The measured property and agreed scope determine the written quotation.
How soon can the work start?
For major projects, allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry. Tell us what you need and when. That period covers the call, the survey, the written quotation, your decision and the ordering that has to happen before trades arrive. If something needs attention sooner than that, say so on the call and we will point you to the right emergency trade for the immediate problem while the planned work is scheduled properly.
Can we stay in the house during the work?
Clients routinely stay for a single room, kitchen or bathroom project. Rewiring, extensive plumbing or heating work can remove the essential services that make a larger occupied project workable. We discuss that stretch of the programme before site work and may recommend a holiday over the worst of it. Temporary services and clean or dirty zones are agreed in the contract in front of us.
Do we need an architect or a structural engineer?
Where the proposal needs them, you appoint the architect, the structural engineer and the building-warrant route. Sweet Homes remains the contractor: we read that information and price the work it describes. We will not fold a design or approval appointment into our role simply because the drawings are needed on site.
What can change the price after the quotation?
Scope changes, late decisions, slow responses and inaccurate specifications. Older properties also do not reveal every condition at survey, so if opening-up changes the known scope the affected work pauses while we record what is visible. The project contract sets the variation and approval process.
What happens after we enquire?
Send your enquiry by form or email. We will reply and arrange a follow-up call to talk through the project. Any site visit is arranged afterwards, where useful.
Why do you not offer labour-only work, or fit materials we buy ourselves?
No. We supply and fit every job, whatever its size. We do not offer labour-only work and we do not offer fit-only work. When one firm buys the materials and carries out the work, you have one clear line of responsibility if something goes wrong, rather than an argument between the product and the fitting. If you have already chosen products, send the product codes and we will buy those exact items and include them in the quotation.
Useful next steps
We also consider projects in south-west Fife. See our Fife renovation coverage for the areas and scope.
Project responsibility
Who manages the work
Brunon oversees project programmes across Edinburgh and is typically available by phone or email. The staff assigned to your job handle the day-to-day site work independently within the agreed scope, with the responsible contact confirmed before work starts.