Beaufort Gardens – Residential Joinery, Knightsbridge

The brief

In a Knightsbridge townhouse, the staircase is the spine of the building — seen from almost every floor and setting the tone for the whole interior. Our client and their design team wanted a stair and surrounding joinery that would read as a single, confident architectural gesture rather than a collection of separate pieces. The challenge, as so often in fine London homes, lay in marrying exacting visual standards with the realities of an existing structure: tight tolerances, services to conceal and the need to keep clean, continuous lines across several storeys. We were brought in early to develop the detail alongside the architect and resolve how the timber elements would meet floors, walls and balustrades.

What we designed and made

Working from a measured survey and full CAD drawings, we designed and made the bespoke staircase together with the architectural timber detailing around it. Treads, strings, handrails and balustrading were set out so that every junction lines through, with the handrail flowing continuously around turns and landings. The surrounding joinery was detailed to frame the stair and carry its language into the adjoining spaces. Each component was dry-assembled in our workshop, checked and adjusted before delivery, then installed by our own team to protect the finish and the fit. This kind of work rewards patience: it is the accuracy of the setting-out, repeated across hundreds of components, that makes the finished stair feel inevitable.

Materials and craftsmanship

Timber was selected for grain, colour and stability, with solid sections used where strength and feel matter most and veneered panels where broad, calm surfaces were wanted. Everything was hand-finished to a standard suited to a home of this calibre, with ironmongery and fixings chosen to disappear into the design. Because the pieces were made and pre-finished in our controlled Suffolk workshop, the on-site programme was shorter and cleaner — an important consideration in a busy central-London project running alongside other trades.

The result

The completed staircase and joinery give the house a quiet, enduring sense of quality. The lines run true, the timber feels warm and considered, and the work sits naturally within its Knightsbridge setting. It is a clear example of the architectural joinery we deliver for architects, designers and private clients across London — technically resolved, beautifully made and built to last for generations.