Applewood, 10th Floor, off Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya
Applewood, 10th Floor, off Ngong Road, Nairobi, Kenya
Home renovation · Nairobi
Mixed residential-commercial development, and renovation of an ageing but well-built housing stock.
Building in Westlands
Parklands holds some of Nairobi's best older residential stock. These houses were built well, and the economics frequently favour reworking them — which makes knowing what the existing structure can take the first question, not an afterthought.
Westlands is Nairobi's second commercial centre, and Parklands beside it holds some of the city's older residential building stock. The result is a genuinely mixed brief: office and retail fit-outs, apartment developments, and renovation of solid mid-century houses that are worth upgrading rather than replacing.
Renovation is unusually prominent here. Much of the Parklands stock was well built and sits on desirable plots, so the economics often favour reworking a structure — services, layout, finishes — rather than demolishing it.
Opening up a mid-century house to a modern open-plan layout means removing walls that may be carrying load. Before any layout is agreed we establish what is structural and what is not, and design the transfer — the alternative is discovering it during demolition, which is both dangerous and expensive.
Mixed-use and change-of-use proposals carry different approval requirements to straightforward residential work, and commercial premises bring fire and access obligations. We scope those at the outset so they shape the design rather than interrupting it.
How it works
What is load-bearing and what is not, established before any layout is agreed.
The new layout designed around what the structure can actually take.
Where the work needs consent, we prepare and submit it.
Renovation scope priced from measured work rather than a lump-sum guess.
Phased to keep the property usable where that is possible.
Snagging and handover with any documentation required.
Get a quote
Project type, location and budget range are enough for a useful first reply.
Questions
It genuinely depends on the structure's condition and what you want from it. We assess the existing building and give you a comparison rather than a default answer — for a sound older house on a good plot, renovation frequently wins.
Yes. Commercial and mixed-use work sits within our building construction service, including the fire and accessibility requirements that come with commercial premises.
Sometimes, depending on the scope and whether services are affected. We will tell you honestly at the assessment stage — phasing a renovation around occupation costs more and takes longer, and it is worth knowing that before you decide.
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