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Expert guides on renovation costs, permits, design ideas & local contractors across Metro Vancouver.
If your Vancouver lot doesn't back onto a rear lane, you've probably assumed a secondary suite is off the table — or at least limited to a basement conversion. That assumption is wrong. Since 2018, the City of Vancouver has allowed garden suites on interior lots
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If you're finishing a basement suite in Vancouver, egress windows are not optional. Under the BC Building Code, every sleeping room in a secondary suite must have an operable window large enough for a person to escape — or for firefighters to enter — in an
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Kitchen flooring is one of the highest-impact decisions in any renovation — it sets the tone for the entire space, takes more abuse than almost any other surface in your home, and in Vancouver's open-concept floor plans, it often flows directly into the living and dining
Read MoreWalk into any kitchen in Vancouver and your eyes go straight to the countertops. Before you notice the cabinet colour, the backsplash tile, or the appliances, you register the countertops. They set the material tone for the entire room, and they take more daily abuse than
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Delta is one of Metro Vancouver's most geographically and culturally distinct municipalities — a sprawling tri-community covering North Delta's suburban hillsides, Ladner's historic village character, and Tsawwassen's waterfront peninsula. With property values ranging from $900,000 to $1.7 million, a housing stock dominated by 1960s–1990s construction, and
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Maple Ridge sits at a crossroads. It is close enough to Metro Vancouver to draw commuters through the Golden Ears Bridge and the Mission Rail Bridge, yet far enough out that lot sizes run two to three times larger than anything you will find in Burnaby
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Kitsilano sits at the leading edge of Vancouver's West Side renovation market — a neighbourhood where 1920s Craftsman bungalows share blocks with sleek modern additions, where buyers routinely pay $2.5M for a character home they fully intend to gut and restore, and where the City of
Read MoreMost Vancouver homeowners who inherited a basement built before 1970 know the feeling: you duck through the door, stand upright—barely—and realize that the seven-foot ceilings everyone else seems to have are nowhere in sight. Pre-1970 Vancouver homes typically have basement ceiling heights of 5'6" to 6'4".
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Walk-in showers have overtaken soaker tubs as the most-requested bathroom renovation in Vancouver. If you have a tub you haven't used in three years and a bathroom that feels cramped and dated, you're in good company — tub-to-shower conversions now account for the majority of bathroom
Read MoreVancouver's Small Kitchen Reality: Why Size Doesn't Mean Simple If you own a pre-1980 home in Vancouver — a bungalow in Kitsilano, a character house in Mount Pleasant, a strata unit in the West End — there is a good chance your kitchen was designed for
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Langley is one of Metro Vancouver's most active renovation markets — and one of its most misunderstood. The region is actually two separate municipalities (the Township of Langley and the City of Langley), each with its own building department, permit fees, zoning bylaws, and secondary suite
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The Tri-Cities — Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, and Coquitlam — have quietly become one of Metro Vancouver's most active renovation markets. Property values ranging from $900,000 to $1.8 million, a housing stock built largely between 1970 and 1995, and the Evergreen Line SkyTrain extension have created
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Vancouver homeowners lose an average of $28,000 to renovation mistakes every year — not from bad luck, but from decisions made before a single tool is picked up. After decades of building and renovating homes across Metro Vancouver, we have seen the same expensive errors repeat
Read MoreVGC completes kitchen, bathroom, basement, and full home renovations across the Lower Mainland. Click your city for local pricing and project information.