Transform your home with confidence.
Structural additions, full-home renovations and character-home updates — reimagined and rebuilt by one team, without the guesswork.
Love where you live — again
Renovation is the hardest kind of construction: hidden conditions, layered permits, and a home you may be living in mid-build. Our design–build approach de-risks it — we investigate before we price, price before we build, and phase the work around your life.
From opening up a main floor to lifting a character home for a legal suite, you get one accountable team and a plan you can trust.
What's included
Everything below is coordinated by one team, under one contract.
- Existing-condition assessment
- Design & engineering for additions
- Permits, including character-home considerations
- Structural, envelope & seismic work
- Kitchens, bathrooms & full interiors
- Live-in phasing options
- Fixed-price contract after assessment
- Workmanship warranty
From first call to keys
Assessment FREE CONSULT
Condition review, scope options, budget range.
Design & Permits
Drawings, engineering and approvals.
Build
Dust control, phased work, weekly updates.
Reveal
Deficiency-free handover and warranty.
Honest ranges for real renovations
Renovation budgets fail when they're guessed. These are the bands real Metro Vancouver projects land in — priced properly after assessment.
Renovate — or move?
| Renovate with Armacan | Sell and move | |
|---|---|---|
| Get exactly what you want | Yes — designed to your life | Compromise on someone else's choices |
| Transaction friction | None | ~8–10% in commissions, tax & moving |
| Where the money lands | In your own walls | In fees you never see again |
| Schools, neighbours, gardens | All kept | All re-rolled |
| Disruption | Months, managed & phased | Weeks — then a new mortgage |
✱ Representative Metro Vancouver planning figures, mid-2026. Your number comes from your lot, your scope and current pricing — confirmed in writing at a free consultation.
Recent additions & renovations
Renovated, still speaking to us
“They opened our walls before quoting, so the price didn't move when the framing did. We lived downstairs the whole time — dust walls, weekly photos, zero drama.”
S. & J. Macdonald — Full-Home Renovation, North VancouverWhat you'll leave the first meeting with
- ✓An honest read on your home's structure and systems
- ✓Scope options at two or three budget levels — not one take-it-or-leave-it
- ✓A renovate-vs-rebuild comparison if your project is near the line
- ✓A phasing plan for living through it — or honest advice to move out
Reading for renovators
RenovationsRenovate or Rebuild?When a renovation is smart money and when a rebuild wins — the six factors that decide it.RenovationsWhich Renovations Pay BackKitchens, suites, envelopes, additions — ranked by the share of cost you typically get back.Costs & BudgetingFinishes: Spend vs SaveSelections can swing a build by $200k. Where spending shows every day — and where saving is invisible.Common questions
Often, yes — we phase the work and seal off active areas. When a project is better done empty, we'll tell you honestly and plan the timing together.
We do exploratory openings before pricing, so hidden conditions are priced before they're surprises. Any change after that needs your written approval first.
Sometimes rebuilding wins. Because we do both, our feasibility review compares the two honestly — same lot, same budget lens.
End-to-end — including character-retention and heritage-adjacent reviews where they apply. We build the municipal timeline into your schedule from day one.
Once the fixed price is set after assessment, payments follow milestone draws tied to completed stages — never large sums up front, and the 10% builders lien holdback is built into the plan.
Show us the house. We'll show you what it could be.
Free consultation — scope options, budget range and honest advice.