Soho Painters & Decorators / W1
Painting for homes with history
and spaces with a working life.
Georgian panelling, an apartment above a restaurant, a bar between services. Decoration begins with the detail of your property and the time it can make available.
Soho Painters & Decorators is the painting & decorating division of Hampstead Renovations Limited (Company No. 16838595).
Soho · W1D / W1FRooms, surfaces, uses
What needs to survive the preparation? Who uses the adjoining rooms? When can the space close? Those questions guide the scope, whether the brief concerns a quiet apartment or a restaurant that comes to life in the evening.
01 / Apartments & townhouses
Panelled walls, stair strings and deep window reveals deserve a considered treatment. Shape a residential scheme around the fabric you are keeping, from a single room to a townhouse.
Apartments & townhouses02 / Restaurants & bars
A dining room repaint starts with the closure plan. Discuss the counter, seating, walls and staff routes together, with enough time allowed for the chosen finishes before reopening.
Restaurants & bars03 / Studios & offices
Reception, edit suite or meeting room: make each zone’s requirements explicit. Equipment protection, lighting and access belong beside the colour and surface specification.
Studios & offices
A closer look at Soho
Westminster’s Soho audit describes early brick houses alongside Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings, later warehouses and the film and publishing buildings around Wardour Street. That history matters when specifying a finish: a timber panel, a shop fascia and an office partition each need their own assessment.
Read Westminster’s Soho conservation area audit
A listing or conservation boundary needs checking against the actual address. Explore the implications for decoration.
After closing. Before opening.
A Soho business may need decoration between the last customer leaving and the next service beginning. An early start or a night shift can be discussed, with the proposed tasks, neighbouring homes and building rules considered before hours are agreed.
We ask about the release of each room, the time needed for preparation and the product’s drying and ventilation requirements. A short closure should shape the scope of work from the outset.
Prepare a restaurant repaint
The detail that stays
A moulding loses something when successive coatings soften its edge. Before changing a painted doorcase or panelled room, establish what is there, what is sound and which parts need a more specialised assessment.
Colour comes with other decisions: preparation, compatibility, sheen and the extent of any repair. Where historic fabric is involved, the permission position and treatment method should be settled together.
Painting historic joineryA workable brief
Identify the occupier, freeholder or building manager responsible for approving each part of the proposed work.
Describe the entrance, stairs and unloading arrangements, including any shared access that must remain clear.
Separate disruptive preparation from quieter finishing and flag trading, resident and contractor restrictions.
Questions about the work
From a panelled apartment to a late-opening bar, the arrangements need to suit the address.
Send details of a flat, townhouse, shopfront, restaurant, bar, members’ room, office or creative studio. Identify the surfaces you want decorated and how the premises will be used during the work. A focused joinery or room enquiry is also welcome; the proposed scope will establish the included elements.
State the closure window you would like and the activities involved. A night or early-morning programme needs to be checked against Westminster’s requirements, the building’s rules, relevant premises conditions and neighbouring occupation. The enquiry is the start of that assessment; working hours are confirmed only with the agreed arrangements.
Identify the room or stair, its visible condition and any information about existing finishes. Keep the list entry, previous permissions and photographs ready for discussion. Preparation may need advice as well as the final colour, particularly if the request involves removing old coatings or repairing retained detail.
Include the correct entrance and floor, who controls the shared access and whether the lease or managing agent sets contractor requirements. Name the rooms that must stay available. If external windows, the flat door or common parts are included, say whose approval is needed for those elements.
No. Explain the atmosphere you want and which materials or furnishings will stay. State any colours already approved by an owner or designer, and mark the remaining decisions as open. The scope can then identify the sampling and finish choices that need to be resolved.
Use the enquiry form for a written outline, or contact the company by telephone, email or WhatsApp. Start with the Soho address, property type and requested work. The form has no upload field, so keep photographs and supporting records ready for a later discussion through the published contact routes.
Tell us what you have in mind
Share the Soho property address and a short outline of the work. For occupied premises, add the hours the space can be released and any instructions from the person managing the building.
A little about the rooms, their condition and your intended finish will help frame the conversation.
