Commercial
Cafés, shops and small offices, designed to trade well and built around your opening hours.
Our approach
A commercial fit-out has one job: bring people in and make them want to stay. That is a design problem before it is a building one, and it has to be solved on a programme that respects your rent.
We design front-of-house and back-of-house together, handle electrics, plumbing, ventilation and signage, and phase the work so you can keep trading where possible.
Most recent: a neighbourhood café, refitted without closing, for a client in Nunhead.
How a commercial project runs
Budget guide · Commercial
What fit-outs cost with us
From shell to trading, including services, joinery, flooring, lighting and decoration. Kitchen equipment and furniture are separate.
See the full budget guideCommercial calculator
Your commercial, roughly priced
A few questions specific to this kind of job. Colin fixes the number after a visit.
Guide only. Excludes VAT, structural engineer's and planning fees, and anything we find behind the plaster. We'll give you a fixed price after a site visit.
Get this range in writing — book a call“They worked nights for the last fortnight so we never closed. Takings went up the week we reopened.”
A 20-minute call to start. Pick a time below, or send an enquiry instead.
Further reading
Commercial: the official guidance
- Planning Portal: Change of use: use classes
Which use class a shop, café or office falls into, and when a change of use needs permission.
- HSE: The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
The duties on clients, designers and contractors on every construction project, and when to notify HSE.
- Historic England: Works to buildings in commercial use
Permissions and practical points when fitting out a business in an older building.
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