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Home renovations in Kitchener
Kitchener is fifteen minutes from our shop, and it is where a large share of our projects have been built since 2007. From century homes near Victoria Park to post-war bungalows and newer subdivisions, we know the housing stock and the City of Kitchener permit process well.
What we renovate in Kitchener
The same six services we offer everywhere, delivered by the same crews.
Kitchen renovations in Kitchener
Custom cabinetry, new layouts, lighting and stone. The room everything else revolves around.
Bathroom renovations in Kitchener
Spa-calm ensuites, hard-working family baths and powder rooms with personality.
Basement renovations in Kitchener
Family rooms, offices, gyms and legal secondary suites built dry, warm and bright.
Home additions in Kitchener
More room without moving: bump-outs, second storeys, sunrooms and in-law suites.
Whole-home renovations in Kitchener
Open the plan, rework the flow and bring an older house up to how you live now.
Renovate-to-sell in Kitchener
Targeted upgrades that help a home list higher and sell faster, including our buy-and-sell model.
Kitchener homes we know
Nearly two decades in the region means we have usually renovated a house like yours before.
Century homes and downtown
Victoria Park, Cedar Hill, Mount Hope, the Auditorium neighbourhood
Plaster walls, narrow kitchens, knob-and-tube in the attic and beautiful trim worth saving. We open plans carefully, upgrade wiring while walls are open and match original profiles.
Post-war bungalows and side-splits
Forest Heights, Stanley Park, Rosemount, Centreville
Ideal for open-concept main floors and legal secondary suites, often with a side entrance already in place for a basement unit.
1980s to 2000s two-storeys
Doon, Huron Park, Laurentian West, Pioneer Park
Closed kitchens, small ensuites and builder-grade finishes. The common brief is a kitchen and family room rework, a proper primary ensuite and a finished basement.
New builds
Huron Village, Doon South, Rosenberg
Basement finishing, built-ins, mudrooms and the upgrades the builder did not offer, done to match.
Permits, suites and the Kitchener rules
Every city in the region runs its building department a little differently. Here is what matters in Kitchener.
Permits in Kitchener
Applications go through the City of Kitchener's online services portal. Kitchener reviews house renovation applications within 10 business days once they are complete. Kitchener is the only one of the three cities that lets you remove a non-load-bearing wall in a house without a permit, and it requires one to re-insulate walls, ceilings or floors. Electrical work is permitted and inspected by the Electrical Safety Authority, not the city.
Kitchener has four heritage conservation districts: St. Mary's, Upper Doon, Victoria Park and Civic Centre. Exterior changes there, such as windows, porches, additions and masonry, usually need a heritage permit, and may also need a building permit.
We prepare the drawings, submit the application and book every inspection. See our permit guide for the full list of what needs a permit in each city, with 2026 fees.
Basement apartments and additional units in Kitchener
- Kitchener calls them additional dwelling units (ADUs) and allows up to four units on many residential lots: the house plus up to three additional units inside it, or a mix of units in the house and a backyard building with one or two units.
- Parking depends on location: none required for an ADU within 800 m of an LRT station or in strategic growth area zones, 0.3 spaces per ADU in the Central Neighbourhood Area and 0.6 elsewhere.
- Every ADU except a duplex needs a zoning (occupancy) certificate before the building permit, and three or more units in a building need a designer or architect.
- The City's ADU Grant, which opened January 19, 2026 while funding is available, covers the school board development charges on a second and third unit. Check its current status before you budget around it.
Details, code requirements and grants are in our basement apartment guide. Rules checked October 2026.
Recent work
Rooms from RTC projects across Waterloo Region.
From a client
Kitchener questions, answered.
If yours is not here, the fastest answer is a phone call to (519) 897-1561.
Where we work.
Our shop is at 6 Colby Court in Waterloo, which puts most of Kitchener within fifteen minutes and Cambridge within half an hour. Close enough that the crew who starts your project is the crew who finishes it.
Planning a renovation in Kitchener?
Tell us about the room, the house and what is not working. We will come back to you to arrange the next step, which is a free site visit and a written proposal.
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