Listed-building renovations in Edinburgh
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Welcome friends into the listed home you love. Sweet Homes renovates listed buildings in Edinburgh, with their character in mind.
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Sweet Homes buys and fits the agreed products and materials for every job. We do not fit items bought or supplied by customers. Please allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry before construction can start. We agree your dates and costs with you before work starts.
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Brunon and his team were on time every day. The site was always left tidy overnight and Brunon was always happy to chat and explain what they were doing.
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After you enquire
We reply by email
A 20-minute call about your plans
A site visit if it helps, with any fee agreed first
Your written quotation
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Your listed home is still your home
Original doors, old floorboards and the rooms you use every day belong in the same conversation. Tell us which details you want to keep, and how work in one room could affect the rest of your home.
School mornings, pets and working from home matter too. Tell us about your routines and the areas you need to reach, so they are part of the brief before work begins.
Listed-building renovations · Edinburgh
Thoughtful changes begin with understanding what makes the building special. We carry out the agreed construction from the design, specification and consent conditions your appointed professionals establish.
Before settling on alterations, read about planning constraints in flats and houses.
Before agreeing work to protected fabric, read listed building rules during a renovation.
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A closer look at the timber window
Small moments, thoughtfully considered
Texture and detail
Doors and windows belong together
The construction, organised
A clear plan, shared with you.
Listing information, drawings, specifications and consent conditions are brought into the construction scope before work starts. We organise the agreed trades and included materials around that information, with updates as the work progresses.
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Design, engineering and permissions
You appoint the architect, structural engineer and approval professionals your project needs. They own the design, structural information and relevant applications. Sweet Homes is the construction contractor. A building warrant must be granted before work starts. Electrical and gas work within our scope is carried out and certified by the competent trades we appoint.
Planning the budget
Indicative listed-building renovations budget
£48,000 to £300,000+
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. Professional and statutory fees are not all included; the written scope confirms what is included.
Read the cost guideListed-building renovation scope, timing and planning
What is included?
We carry out the agreed construction described by the approved information. Listing details, drawings, specifications and conditions need to be available. If a concealed finding affects the approved proposal, the affected work pauses while your appointed professional establishes what is needed. We supply and fit the agreed work. We do not offer labour-only or fit-only work. Chosen product codes can be included in our supply quotation.
The quotation records assumptions about concealed conditions and identifies specialist work outside the agreed construction scope. Share any existing survey reports with your appointed professionals so the information needed for the work is clear.
How is the programme agreed?
The programme follows the agreed drawings, approvals, scope and ordering. For all work, allow at least four weeks from your first enquiry for the call, survey, quotation, decision and preparation; this is not a promised start date. We agree the construction sequence for your property.
Who leads the permissions?
You appoint the design and approval professionals. Listed-building consent, planning permission and a building warrant answer different questions; your professional establishes which apply. Sweet Homes is the construction contractor, not the architect or approval lead.
What happens if the work changes?
We record the proposed work, cost and programme effect and obtain agreement before carrying out changed work. Concealed findings that affect the design are referred to your appointed professional. The contract sets out the process for your scope.
How do we start?
Send your enquiry by form or email. We arrange a follow-up call to talk through the project, then a site visit where useful. Any visit fee is agreed beforehand.
What happens at handover?
The project contract identifies the handover checks, snagging route, workmanship terms and aftercare for the agreed scope. Any trade certificates come from the subcontractors who carry out that work.
Understanding the approval questions
What if we need work urgently?
We do not start construction within four weeks of the first enquiry. The call, property assessment where needed, quotation, your decision and preparation come first. The actual start and programme are agreed for your project. If you need urgent help, contact an emergency tradesperson.
Which specialist checks may be needed early?
The property may need condition, structural or material-specific survey input before the scope is fixed. Where planned work may disturb suspected asbestos-containing material, have the survey scope agreed with a competent asbestos surveyor before disturbance. A refurbishment survey can involve destructive inspection: the survey area must be vacated and confirmed fit for reoccupation by the surveyor afterwards. A normal visual visit does not replace those specialist investigations.
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.
Fully insured: £2 million public and products liability and £10 million employers' liability.
Our Christmas offer
Dinner is on us.
Book your renovation with us by 15 December 2026 and, while the work is under way, your first £50 of dinner is on us.
A Christmas present that arrives when you need it most. Picture it. The kitchen is down to bare walls, the hall smells of fresh plaster, and nobody wants to cook. So don't. Get a table somewhere warm, order something you would never make at home, and let someone else do the washing up.
Book by 15 December 2026. Your works can start later.
About your dinner voucher
- You book by accepting your written quotation by 15 December 2026.
- Your works can start after that date. We plan every project at least four weeks ahead.
- We give you the voucher once your works have started.
- It is a £50 voucher you can use at any of a group of independent Edinburgh restaurants and bars, so you choose where.
- One voucher per project. It does not change your price.
- Not exchangeable for cash. Full terms below.
Offer terms
- The promoter is Brunon Rogowski Ltd, trading as Sweet Homes, company number SC700883, registered office 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8DL.
- The offer is for customers who book a renovation project with us. You book when you accept our written quotation in writing by 11.59pm on 15 December 2026. The offer closes then and will not be extended.
- Your works can start after 15 December 2026. We agree the start date with you, and never start works within four weeks of your first enquiry. Where a building warrant is needed, works start only once it is granted.
- We give you one £50 dinner voucher per project, in person or by post, once your works have started on site.
- The voucher is an Edinburgh's Flavour gift voucher, which you can use at any of its partner restaurants and bars in Edinburgh. Its own terms apply, including its expiry date (currently 12 months from issue), which we will tell you when we give it to you. If we cannot provide that voucher, we will give you another dinner voucher worth at least £50.
- There is no cash alternative and no discount in its place. Your right to the voucher cannot be passed to anyone else or moved to another project.
- If the project is cancelled before works start, for any reason, including within your 14-day cancellation period, no voucher is given. Once we have given you the voucher, we will not ask for it back.
- The voucher is a gift on top of your contract. It does not change your contract price, scope or timing, and the price is not raised to pay for it.
Let’s talk about your home
What would you like to change?
Tell us what you’d like to change. Drawings and a few photographs help us understand the space before we arrange a call.
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