Full Home Renovation in the Lower Mainland
If you're planning a full home renovation in the Lower Mainland, you want more than a refresh. You want a home rethought from the structure out, and that's the work Embark Homes does best. We design and build whole-home transformations around the way you actually live.
Full Home Renovations That Go Beyond the Surface
A whole-home remodel is about more than new finishes. It's the chance to change how your home actually works, where the walls fall, how the space flows, how much room you have to live in. This is the work that happens behind the drywall and under the floors, and it's where real transformation comes from. We take on the structural side that finish-only renovators won't touch, so your home doesn't just look different, it lives differently.
Open-Concept Conversions
We remove and relocate walls to open up tight, compartmentalized layouts, including the load-bearing work that makes it safe. The result is the connected, light-filled main floor most homes were never originally designed to have.
Additions and Extensions
When your home has run out of room, we add it, whether that's bumping out the main floor, building a second storey, or extending into unused space. More square footage, seamlessly integrated with the existing structure.
Floor Plan Reconfiguration
Sometimes the problem isn't the size of your home, it's how it's arranged. We rethink the entire layout, moving rooms, redrawing circulation, and reworking how the space functions, so the home finally fits the way you actually live.
Structural Home Upgrades
Foundations, beams, and everything behind the walls, we handle the structural work that makes the rest possible. It's the part of a renovation nobody sees, but it's what everything else depends on.
How We Renovate Your Home
Every full home renovation we take on moves through three clear phases, each managed by the same accountable team from first sketch to final walkthrough. Rather than juggling separate designers, engineers, and trades, you move through design, approvals, and construction as one continuous path, with the structural and permitting work handled along the way.
Reimagining what's there
Reimagining your space with a full home renovation
A full renovation starts with understanding your existing home: what works, what doesn't, and what's possible within its structure. From there we design the transformation around how you want to live in it.
Discovery consultation
We start by understanding where your home falls short today and what you need it to become. That conversation shapes the whole renovation.
Existing conditions assessment
We evaluate the current structure, layout, and systems to understand what can change, what has to stay, and what's hidden behind the walls.
Preliminary budgeting
We align the scope of your renovation with your investment range up front, so the design is one you can actually build.
Design & layout
We rework floor plans, flow, and structure, opening up walls and reconfiguring space around how you intend to live.
Interior design & selections
We finalize layouts and every material decision, from cabinetry to fixtures, so the renovation is fully specified before pricing is locked.
Build-ready, priced, approved
Engineering, permits & your fixed price
Structural changes mean engineering and approvals. We turn the design into a build-ready package, manage the municipality on your behalf, and lock your price before demolition begins.
Engineering & technical design
We coordinate the consultant team, structural and otherwise, to engineer the changes and turn the design into build-ready drawings.
Permits & municipal approvals
Our team assembles and submits the permit package and handles every exchange with the municipality, so you're not chasing approvals.
Fixed-price renovation agreement
With design and scope finalized, we issue your complete renovation price and build agreement. Your price is locked here, before we begin.
From demolition to done
Transforming your home, start to finish
We manage the entire renovation to the standard the drawings promise. We work cleanly through demolition and rebuild, keep you informed throughout, and hand over a home that finally fits.
Demolition & structural work
We strip back what's changing and handle the structural work the new layout depends on: removing walls, reframing, and reinforcing.
Construction
We manage scheduling, trade coordination, site supervision, inspections, and quality control at every stage of the rebuild.
Progress updates
You get regular updates throughout the renovation, with clear visibility into where your home stands and what's next.
Final walkthrough & warranty
We walk the finished home with you in detail, review every finish, then hand over with full warranty documentation.
Why Choose Embark for Your Full Home Renovation
A whole-home renovation is only as good as the contractor behind it, and the difference shows in the parts you can't see. We start with how you actually live, then design and build around it, handling the structural work and the finishes with the same care.
Designed Around You
Every layout, material, and detail is chosen to fit how your family actually lives, not pulled from a catalogue of stock plans.
Fixed-Price Contract
Your price is locked before we begin, so the full cost of your home renovation is clear from the outset with no surprises partway through.
One Point of Contact
A single dedicated team manages design, engineering, trades, and timeline from start to finish, so you always know where things stand.
What's Actually Included in Your Full Home Renovation
The hardest part of planning a renovation is knowing what your money actually buys, and where the hidden costs hide. We price the whole project up front, structural work included, so the number you approve is the number you pay. Here's what sits inside a fixed-price renovation with Embark, and what finish-only renovators tend to leave for you to sort out later.
Included in your fixed price
What finish-only renovators leave out
See Our Work
Our portfolio shows what thoughtful design and disciplined building look like once a home is finished and lived in. Each project below was shaped around a distinct house, owner, and goal, then delivered with the same care we bring to every whole-home renovation and custom build.
Oakridge
Our Full Home Renovation Services Are Available Across the Lower Mainland
As a full home renovation contractor working throughout the Lower Mainland, we take on projects from character homes in Vancouver to family houses across the Fraser Valley. Wherever you are, we handle the design, engineering, permits, and structural work that a whole-home transformation requires in these communities:
Full Home Renovation FAQs
Answers to the questions homeowners ask most before starting a full home renovation.
How much does a full home renovation cost in the Lower Mainland?
Cost depends on the size of your home, the scope, and whether structural changes are involved, which is why we lock a transparent, fixed price before any demolition. After your consultation and an existing-conditions assessment, we align the scope with your budget so you know the full cost up front.
How long does a full home renovation take?
Can you handle structural changes like removing walls or adding a second storey?
Do I need to move out during the renovation?
Do you handle permits and engineering?
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