Apartment renovation in Paris 16th.

The 16th, a housing stock of its own.

The 16th is the arrondissement of large family apartments. Around Trocadéro and avenue Victor-Hugo, Haussmann and post-Haussmann buildings dominate; in Passy and Auteuil they sit alongside Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings and generously proportioned 1930s residences. Each period has its own construction logic, and a successful renovation starts by reading it: timber or concrete floors, working or blocked flues, original water risers, ceiling heights that do — or do not — leave room to run services without touching the mouldings.

These apartments are rarely renovated halfway. It is not unusual for a property changing hands to have seen no major works for a long time: wiring to redo, bathrooms to redesign, a kitchen to open up to family life. It is the natural ground for a complete renovation led by a single party.

Our reference: Le Trocadéro.

A short walk from Trocadéro, we delivered a 227 m² Haussmann apartment that had been turned into a law office: partitioned meeting rooms, false ceilings, carpet, IT cabling. The brief was to return it to residential use as a very high-end family home.

• A complete redistribution of the volumes: a sequence of reception rooms, suites and a family kitchen in place of the meeting rooms.
• Every service rebuilt from the building's risers: electrics, plumbing, heating.
• Bathrooms created from scratch in an old building that had none.
• The Haussmann character recovered: ceiling heights, mouldings and parquet floors hidden under the office fit-out.

Ten months on site and sixteen trades coordinated. The full story is in our Trocadéro case study, and the photographs on the project page.

What changes a project in the 16th.

• The co-ownership. Works that stay inside the apartment generally need no vote. Anything touching the common parts or the structure (load-bearing wall, risers, façade, windows) requires a general-meeting authorisation, whose calendar is best prepared early — ideally while the purchase is under contract.
• House rules and neighbours. Working hours, protection of the lift and common areas, removal of rubble: in buildings that are fully occupied, how a site is run matters as much as its quality.
• Interior heritage. Parquet, mouldings, fireplaces, original joinery: protected from day one, and restored rather than replaced.
• Listed surroundings. Part of the arrondissement lies near protected monuments. For anything visible from outside (windows, shutters, façade), the opinion of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France may be required; interior works are generally not concerned.
• Change of use. Returning a former office to residential use, as at Trocadéro, is an administrative project as much as a technical one. Our guide to permits for renovating in Paris covers it.

The budget, per square metre.

Our prices are per square metre, excluding custom millwork (+€500 to €700/m² for a complete project, €600/m² on average) and design. Here is what our 2026 grid gives for two sizes; these are worked examples, not the budget of an actual project.

For a range tailored to your apartment, our estimate form calculates it in four questions. The item-by-item breakdown is in our article on the cost of a Haussmann renovation.

Timelines, committed.

Allow two to three months of design, then four to eight months of works depending on size and scope. Custom pieces take eight to sixteen weeks to make, so they are ordered early to keep the finish date. At Le Trocadéro, the complete transformation of 227 m² took ten months. Our guide to how long an apartment renovation takes details each stage.

One contract, one responsibility.

W.A.R.D is a general contractor: design and execution under one contract, sixteen trades run by a single lead, and our own 10-year liability insurance of €5,000,000. You have one contact, one price and one date. If you already work with an architect, we execute their drawings to the last detail — that is the purpose of our architects' page.

We work throughout the 16th and, more broadly, across Paris and the Île-de-France region. For other types of property, see our page on apartment renovation in Paris and all our projects.