GTA renovation services
A full home renovation updates several rooms or the entire house as a single planned project, instead of one room at a time. Calico Designs and Renovations handles the design, permits, trades, and finishes across the Greater Toronto Area, and you can approve a 3D rendering of the whole design before work starts. As a starting guide, full home renovations run from about $100,000 to $400,000 or more, depending on the size of the house and the level of finish.
Free first consultation and site visit, anywhere in the GTA.
Ask for a full rendering of your project and approve the design before anything is built.
We don’t demolish at contract signing. Your old kitchen stays in place through design and sign-off, then demolition and installation happen back to back. You are without a working kitchen for only 2 days.
We work within your budget, as long as it is realistic, and design from your mood board and inspiration photos.
A full home renovation treats the house as one project. That might mean new flooring, trim, and paint on every level with an updated kitchen and bathrooms. It might mean opening the main floor, rebuilding every bathroom, and replacing the wiring. At the far end it is a gut renovation: the house is taken back to its structure and rebuilt inside.
Because we design and build, one company carries the whole job: design, 3D rendering, engineering and permits, demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, insulation, drywall, flooring, kitchens, bathrooms, and finishing.
If the rooms are connected, physically or visually, planning them together avoids paying twice for the same floor or the same wall.
The risk in a large renovation is not any single room. It is the decisions that cross rooms: where ducts run, which walls can go, how one floor meets another, what the kitchen looks like from the front door.
That is where the 3D rendering earns its place. You can ask for a full rendering of the project and walk through the design on screen before anything is built. Changing your mind at that stage means moving a line, not a wall.
On kitchens in particular: we don’t demolish at contract signing. The old kitchen stays usable through design and sign-off, and demolition and installation then run back to back. Details are on our process page.
Timelines scale with scope. Across the industry, cosmetic whole-home updates typically take around three months of construction, and gut renovations six months or more, with design, engineering, and permit review ahead of that. Long-lead items such as windows, custom cabinetry, and stone are ordered early so they do not hold up the schedule.
TODO: owner to confirm Calico's typical whole-home timelines.
Most whole-home projects need a building permit, because they touch structure, plumbing, or heating. The permit application needs drawings, and structural changes need an engineer’s design. Each GTA municipality reviews applications through its own building department. Our guide to renovation permits in Ontario sets out what does and does not need one.
A whole-home renovation often includes work we also do on its own: a kitchen, bathrooms, a finished basement or legal basement apartment, or a home addition. If you are comparing contractors for a project this size, our guide on how to choose a renovation contractor lists the questions worth asking each one, including us.
These ranges are average market prices in the GTA, per home. Your project can cost less or more depending on your preferences. Your exact price comes after a free consultation and site visit, once we know your space, your finishes, and your budget.
$100k–$200k
Cosmetic and functional updates through the house, with the layout largely unchanged.
$200k–$400k
A redesigned main floor with a new kitchen and rebuilt bathrooms.
$400k+
A full gut renovation with custom work, often combined with an addition.
We’ll look at the space, talk through your budget and inspiration, and tell you honestly what it can achieve.
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Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and structural engineering are all done by our own team, not passed to outside companies, with working-at-heights certification on site.
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$5 million liability insurance, WSIB coverage, and an $11 million bond.
Up to 8 years. The length depends on the project, and your warranty terms are written into your contract.
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As a starting guide, a full home renovation in the GTA runs from about $100,000 to $200,000 for essential updates in the existing layout, $200,000 to $400,000 for a mid-range renovation with a redesigned main floor, and $400,000 or more for a premium gut renovation. Exact pricing follows a free consultation and site visit. These are average market prices and can be lower or higher depending on your preferences.
Doing the work as one project usually costs less in total than the same rooms done separately. Trades are mobilised once, shared work such as flooring and electrical is done in one pass, and one permit can cover the lot. Room by room spreads the cost over time but repeats setup, protection, and disruption each time.
It depends on the scope. Updates that leave a working bathroom and somewhere to cook can be phased around a family living at home. A gut renovation that replaces plumbing, electrical, and heating usually means moving out for the main construction period. We will tell you which applies at the site visit.
Almost always. In Ontario a building permit is required for structural changes, new or relocated plumbing, changes to heating and ventilation, and new or enlarged window and door openings, and a whole-home renovation usually includes several of these. Purely cosmetic work such as flooring, paint, and cabinet replacement does not need one.
Industry-wide, whole-home renovations typically take from about three months for cosmetic updates to six months or more for a gut renovation, plus design and permit time before construction. TODO: owner to confirm Calico's typical timelines.
Yes. You can ask for a full 3D rendering of the project and approve the design before work begins. On a whole-home project, that is how you check that rooms, finishes, and sightlines work together before anything is ordered.