Residential
- Renovation
- Refurbishment
- Extensions
- New build
Structure that is meant to stay.
London building contractors. Rustic work, fine carpentry, and a photographic record of every job we finish.
Selected work
View all workFunction comes FIRST.
Residential work is built for daily use and a long service life, with a cantilevered upper floor, concrete fins and a stone-clad entrance.
- Built for daily use and long service life
- Function matters as much as appearance
- Rustic by preference
- Fine carpentry and close detail
Appearance comes FIRST.
Commercial work covers licensed film-franchise flagships and shopfits, where more protocol is priced in at the planning stage and the finish is judged from day one.
- More protocol to follow than residential
- Extra cost absorbed at the planning stage
- Design skews temporary
- Appearance comes first
Gift Box Britain
The finished Gift Box Britain store: an illuminated crown pendant and a red Mini set into the floor as a display plinth.
Open the folderWhere we have built
Northstead builds from London. Before it, Santiago and Alfonso built in Ireland and in Nicaragua. Tap a place to see the work done there.
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Reach
Whatever the job asks for, one team carries it. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor and forgotten.
Commercial
- Fit-out
- Retail
- Hospitality
- Occupied and trading buildings
Heritage
- Period property
- Restoration
- Sensitive intervention
Interiors
Joinery · Dry lining and partitions · Flooring · Decoration and finishes
Exteriors
Decking and patios · External works · Selected landscaping
Good building starts
with good relations.
The projects that go well are the ones where both sides want the same thing. We would rather find that out early than halfway through.
| First contact |
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| Design and price |
| Plan and build |
| Archive and handover |
At every stage you know what has been decided, what it costs and what happens next. That is what a good working relationship is made of.