Kitchen Renovations
Layouts, cabinetry and finishes built for how your family actually cooks — not for a showroom photograph.
Renovation service
Most kitchens that frustrate people are not ugly — they are badly arranged. We start with how you move between the sink, the stove and the fridge, then work outward to storage, lighting and surfaces. Selections are locked before demolition, so the cabinetry lead time never becomes a three-week hole in your schedule.
What's included
Every project is scoped and priced before we start.
Drawings that fix the work triangle, storage and sightlines before anything is ordered.
Boxes, doors, hardware and interior fittings specified to your budget band.
Templated after cabinets are set, so the seams land where they should.
Rewiring, plumbing moves and hood venting, permitted and inspected.
Carried into the adjoining rooms so the new work does not stop at a line.
Openings built to your actual appliances, installed and tested.
How it runs
We see the space, hear what you want and tell you honestly what is realistic for the budget you have in mind.
Drawings, materials and finishes agreed and priced before demolition — not chosen under pressure halfway through.
Permits submitted and followed through, trades booked in the order the build actually needs them.
Dust barriers, floor protection and a swept site every night, because you are usually still living in the house.
We walk it with you, fix the list, and hand over the warranty paperwork. Your sign-off is what ends the job.
Where the money goes
Cabinetry is usually thirty-five to forty-five per cent of a kitchen budget and the single biggest lever you have. Stock boxes with good doors can look excellent; full custom earns its cost when your walls are out of square or your storage needs are genuinely unusual. Counters come next, and the gap between an entry quartz and a designer slab is often three to six thousand dollars on an average kitchen.
Then there is the part nobody quotes: what is behind the drywall. Older Calgary kitchens routinely hide undersized electrical, cast-iron drains and framing that has moved. We budget a contingency for it up front rather than presenting it as a change order in week three.
Common questions
Anything not covered here, just ask on the call.
Three to five weeks for a refresh, five to eight for a full renovation, and longer where structure moves. We set up a temporary kitchen elsewhere in the house and phase the work so you are without a sink for days rather than weeks.
Most kitchens we price land in one of three bands, and the difference is rarely labour — it is cabinetry construction, counter material and how much of the room you are moving. You get an itemised range after one walkthrough, free, rather than a number over the phone.
Sometimes. If the boxes are solid and the layout works, refacing with new doors, hardware and counters gets you most of the visual change for a fraction of the cost. If the layout is the problem, refacing just gives you a better-looking kitchen that still does not work.
Before cabinetry is ordered, always. Cabinet openings are built to the exact appliances you have bought, and a fridge chosen after the millwork is cut is how a panel ends up trimmed on site.