Plan your renovation
like someone who’s
done this before
Plan, budget, and run your renovation from one app. Cost ranges built for your house. The trades, photos, and paperwork all in one place.
200 beta spots opening in August. Join the waitlist for priority access.
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Sample data · your house details, projects and budgets come from the information you add to the app.
The hard truth
about renovation planning
The average UK renovation now costs more than £21,000. People rarely start one with a real plan, and there’s a good reason for that.
Nobody tells you what things should cost. So when a quote lands in front of you, you can’t tell whether it’s fair, optimistic, or taking advantage. You agree, because the alternative is another fortnight of waiting.
Nobody tells you what you need to keep track of. Building Regs, Party Wall agreements, certificates, the order things have to happen in. Twelve browser tabs deep and still not sure if you’ve covered everything.
Nobody tells you what’s right for your house. A 1930s semi, a Victorian terrace, a 1970s detached: they each ask different questions, and the answer that solves one can ruin another. Generic advice treats every house the same.
That’s the part Honely is built for.
A renovation planning app built around how renovations actually work
Not inspiration. Not a 3D renderer. A practical tool for the messy, expensive, stressful part: the part that determines whether your renovation succeeds or fails.
One budget, with a clear view of when & how you’re spending it
See total spend across your whole renovation, or broken down by project, task, and category. Keep an eye on your contingency or set a monthly limit to keep outlays under control. Planned spend and confirmed spend stay separate, so you can see what’s coming up before it’s money out the door.
Sample data · your envelope, contingency and breakdown are built from your own projects.
Cost ranges calibrated to your house
Community Cost Intelligence: cost ranges built for your specific house type, era, region, and project scale. Not national averages, not industry hearsay. We built the model ourselves; every cost a user logs sharpens it. Enter a contractor’s quote and see whether it’s in range, on the high side, or worth pushing back on.
Sample data · estimates are calculated from your postcode, house type and era.
See your whole renovation laid out clearly
Four ways to look at the same project. A timeline showing what depends on what (so you don’t tile a bathroom that’s about to be rewired). A board for dragging tasks between stages. A calendar synced to your iPhone. And just a list, when that’s what you need.
Sample data · dependencies and dates come from the projects you set up.
A community of UK homeowners who’ve been through it
Real quotes, real progress, real advice. Ask “is £8,000 reasonable for rewiring a 3-bed semi in Bristol?”and get answers from people who’ve actually done it. Honely also knows your house type (Victorian terrace, 1930s semi, 1970s detached) and flags the things worth watching for, before you start.
Illustrative forum content. The categories are the real ones; posts and activity depend on what members share.
No spreadsheet knows the difference between Bristol and Birmingham
Community Cost Intelligence
We built our own UK cost model, calibrated to your house type, era, region, and project scale. Not national averages. The numbers come from authoritative construction references (Spon's, ONS, BCIS, Laxton's), and every cost a user logs in Honely or one of our calculators feeds back to refine them. Today it's our model. Tomorrow it's yours.
Quote validation that knows your area
Enter a contractor's quote and see whether it sits in range for your area, type of work, and specification level (budget, mid-range, or premium). Catch the over-quotes before you sign. Spot the suspiciously low ones too: they tend to grow.
House-type-specific guidance
Victorian terrace lath and plaster. 1930s semi cavity walls. 1970s detached and the joys of aluminium wiring. Honely flags the warnings that matter for your specific property type, before they become a nasty mid-project surprise.
UK context layered onto every postcode
Conservation areas, listed-building proximity, flood risk, green belt and energy efficiency, checked against your postcode district before you start planning. So you find out what constrains the work while it is still a drawing.
Sample data · planning constraints and house-type guidance are pre-loaded for 2,900 UK postcode districts.
We built Honely
because we needed it ourselves
A year ago we started renovating our little terrace and discovered, very quickly, that nobody had built the tool we needed.
We had spreadsheets to track cash flows that we barely used and didn’t update, except in the few fevered moments where we thought we might be imminently bankrupt. We kept notes in disparate apps, on separate phones, shared inconsistently between us. We had multiple quotes, but we didn’t know which to trust or how to test them. There was no single place, file, or folder that held all our information.
So we built it. The cost model came first, because that’s the thing nobody tells you honestly. Then the planning views. Then the photo log, the document hub, the trades directory, the community forum.
Honely is the tool we wish we’d had when we started renovating.
It’s currently in friends-and-family beta. The public beta opens in August, with 200 spots reserved for the waitlist. We’d love to have you on it.
Toby & Rowan
Stop figuring it out as you go
Confidence through clarity. Cost ranges calibrated to your house. Your whole renovation in one place. A community of UK homeowners who’ve been through it.
You don’t have to do this alone. 200 beta spots open in August; the waitlist goes first.