Home Renovations in Edmonton
Bespoke Contracting is an Edmonton design build renovation company. We take whole home renovations from first sketch to final walk through under one roof, so the people drawing your plans are the same people holding the tape measure on site.
Renovating a home you actually live in
If you are searching for home renovations in Edmonton, you are usually weighing two things at once: the home you want to end up with, and the very real risk of the project going sideways along the way. Almost everyone has heard the story, a renovation that ran months over, a budget that doubled, a contractor who stopped answering the phone. Our design build model exists to remove that second worry so you can focus on the first.
Most Edmonton homeowners are not starting from a bare lot. They are living in the house while it changes around them, working around one functioning bathroom, keeping a kitchen running out of a basement microwave, and trying to protect the parts of the home that are not being touched. A renovation plan that ignores that reality is a plan that makes your life miserable for months.
We build the plan around the fact that you live there. We phase the work so the house stays as usable as possible, seal off active zones to keep dust out of the rest of the home, protect flooring and stairs on the paths our trades use, and tell you what is happening next so the disruption is predictable rather than open ended. A renovation is always an intrusion into your home. Our job is to make it a managed one.
It also matters that renovations of older Edmonton homes tend to reveal things. Open a wall and you may find outdated wiring, tired plumbing, thin insulation, or the occasional unwelcome surprise. We would rather find those things, show you, and deal with them properly than paper over them and hand you a problem for next year.
How we work
One team from concept to completion
The single biggest decision in a renovation is not the tile or the paint colour. It is how the project is structured. When design and construction are split between two companies, you become the messenger between them, and every gap in that handoff becomes your problem: the beautiful drawing that cannot actually be built for the budget, the detail the builder interprets differently than the designer intended, the finger pointing when something needs solving.
Design build removes that gap. Because we design and build as one team, the design is grounded in what is genuinely buildable and what it will actually cost from the very first meeting. There is no translation loss, no company blaming another company, and no surprise at quoting when the dream meets the invoice. You deal with one team, one point of contact, and one standard of finish from start to finish.
Our Process
Consultation and site review
We walk the space with you, listen to how you actually use it and what is not working, and take real measurements. This is where honest budgeting starts, because we would rather have the hard conversation about scope and money now than surprise you later.
Design and fixed scope
We turn the ideas into drawings, selections, and a written scope of work. That scope is what your price is built on, so it reflects the real project rather than an optimistic guess that balloons the moment work begins. You approve it before anything is torn out.
Build with one dedicated team
Your project runs with a single site lead who owns the outcome, supported by licensed trades we work with repeatedly. You are not handed a rotating cast of strangers, and you always know who to call.
Final walk through and warranty
We finish, clean, and walk every detail with you at the end. Anything not right gets put right. Our workmanship is backed in writing, because a renovation should not end the day we leave.
What a whole home renovation can include
Kitchens
The room most Edmonton renovations start with. We handle layout, custom cabinetry, counters, tile, lighting, and all the mechanical work behind them, coordinated as one job.
Bathrooms
Waterproofing done to standard, heated floors, custom tile, and fixtures chosen to still perform in ten years. The hidden layers matter as much as the finishes.
Basements
Turning cold storage into real living space: family rooms, media rooms, gyms, home offices, and legal secondary suites, built dry and to code.
Custom millwork
Built in furniture, feature walls, stairs, and trim that make a renovation feel designed and specific to your home rather than assembled from parts.
Additions and reconfiguration
Moving walls, opening up sight lines, and adding square footage where the structure allows, so the home fits how you live now.
Full interior refresh
Flooring, paint, doors, trim, and finishes coordinated across the home so the whole thing reads as one considered project, not a series of patches.
The part you never see is the part we obsess over.
Beautiful finishes are only half the job. What sits behind them, done properly, is why our work is still sound in ten years.
What sets the work apart
Why the finish holds up
Our background is finish carpentry and millwork, and that shows in the parts of a renovation most people feel before they can name. The reveals around a cabinet, the way a mitre meets in a corner, whether a door sits flush in its frame, whether a run of trim is dead straight along a wall that is not: these are the details that separate a renovation that looks custom from one that looks close enough.
That standard runs through everything, not just the woodwork. It is why we care about proper substrates behind tile, level cabinet installs, and clean transitions between materials. A renovation is a collection of a thousand small decisions, and the finished result is only ever as good as the least considered one. We treat the ones you cannot see as seriously as the ones you can, because those are the ones that fail first when someone rushes.
What shapes a renovation budget
The honest answer to what a renovation costs is that it depends entirely on scope, size, and finish level. A single bathroom refresh and a main floor gut that moves walls and mechanical are not remotely the same number. Rather than quote a range that means nothing, we build the price off a defined scope so you are deciding with real figures.
The biggest cost drivers are usually structural changes, whether plumbing and electrical move, the finish level you choose, and the condition of what we uncover once the walls are open. Older homes carry more unknowns, which is why we build a sensible allowance for the unexpected into the conversation rather than pretending an eighty year old house will have no surprises.
What you will not get from us is a low number designed to win the job that climbs through change orders once you are committed. The fixed written scope is the whole point. It is how you keep control of the budget instead of the budget controlling you.
The details that matter
Planning a whole home renovation
A whole home renovation is a different animal than a single room. The rooms have to talk to each other, the trades have to be sequenced so no one is working on top of anyone else, and the budget has to hold across a much longer timeline. This is where the design build model earns its keep. Because the people who designed your renovation are the same people building it, there is no gap between the drawing and the reality on site, and no finger pointing when something in the plan meets something in the wall.
We start every whole home project by understanding how you actually live in the space. Where the light falls in the morning, where the family gathers, what about the current layout drives you up the wall. Good renovation is not about following a trend, it is about solving the specific frustrations of your specific home. From there we develop a plan, price it against a fixed written scope, and give you a realistic schedule before any demolition begins.
Living through a renovation, and the finish
Renovating the home you live in is disruptive, and we would rather be honest about that than pretend otherwise. What we can control is how well the disruption is managed: clear communication about what is happening each week, dust control and site protection that respects the parts of the home you are still using, and a crew that treats your house like someone lives in it, because someone does.
The payoff is a home that works the way you always wanted it to, built to a standard you can trust because you watched it happen. When we hand a finished renovation back, the beautiful finishes are only part of it. The part that matters just as much is everything behind them: the framing, the waterproofing, the insulation, and the systems that will keep performing long after the reveal.
Why homeowners choose Bespoke
Design and build under one roof
You are never stuck between a designer who blames the builder and a builder who blames the designer. It is all one team, accountable for the whole result.
Fixed, written scope
You approve a real scope and price before we start. Change orders are the exception, discussed openly, never a surprise buried in the final invoice.
Finish carpentry standard
A millwork background applied to the whole home, so the details that make a renovation feel custom are the ones we care about most.
Local and accountable
We are an Edmonton company that lives on referrals and repeat work. Our name is on the sign, on the truck, and on the warranty.
Straight talk
If we find a problem behind your walls, you hear about it from us immediately, with a clear plan, not after it has been quietly sealed back up.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Let us build your home renovations
Tell us about your project and we will walk you through what it takes to do it properly.