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House Renovation York

At Waxwing, we believe the best renovations don't just refresh a home, they reveal it. Our house renovation York service brings together design, craftsmanship and considered detailing to transform tired interiors into spaces that feel calm, well-made and entirely your own.

Whether we are sympathetically restoring a period property or reimagining the layout of a modern home, we work with the building's character rather than against it, so the result feels like the house it always wanted to be.
 

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Renovation crafted around your home

Every renovation begins with the building itself. Some homes carry decades of layered alterations, original features hidden behind plaster, or layouts that no longer suit the way families live today. Our role is to read each property carefully, understand what is worth preserving and recognise where considered change will make the biggest difference.


What we make​​

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  • Whole-house renovations from strip-out to final finish

  • Interior reconfiguration and open-plan layouts

  • Kitchen and bathroom renovation

  • Living room and family-space refurbishment

  • Period property restoration and listed building work

  • Window seats, banquettes and built-in seating

Many of our renovation projects naturally extend into design-stage drawings and structural change, which we handle through our residential architectural design service. Where additional space is part of the brief, our house extensions in York team designs and builds the new footprint as a seamless continuation of the existing home.
 

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Our approach

Our service is collaborative and transparent from start to finish.


1. Initial consultation and site visit
2. Survey, design and detailed scoping
3. Planning, building regulations and material specification
4. Fully managed construction and trade coordination
5. Interior finishing and bespoke detailing

6. Final snagging and completion

Why choose Waxwing for house renovation in York

  • Considered renovations shaped around your home

  • Sensitivity to listed buildings, conservation areas and original features

  • Sensitivity to period and conservation properties

  • A single point of contact from first drawing to final handover

  • Attention to detail at every stage

Renovation is, in our view, where Waxwing's wider craft comes together. Architecture, building and interior detailing handled by one studio rather than coordinated across many. Where a renovation calls for bespoke fitted pieces, panelling or interior detailing, our specialist joinery York team handcrafts each element in our workshop and fits it on site as part of the same project.



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