Renovation Atelier · Vancouver, est. 2004
Twenty years of heritage restoration, kitchen rebuilds and quiet extensions on the West Coast. We work on three houses a year.
Founded
2004
Projects delivered
187
On time, on budget
94%
Service area
BC · Coast
— A note
We are not the largest renovation studio in the city, and we have no intention of becoming so. We take on three houses a year, finish what we begin, and leave behind work that will outlive us all.
— Capabilities
Craftsman, Edwardian and Tudor-revival homes returned to their original character — without the draft, the failing plaster, or the wiring that worries your insurer.
From $480/sqft
Considered millwork, honest materials, and the kind of layout that adds forty thousand to a home's valuation and makes you want to cook every night of the week.
From $95,000
Open-plan additions engineered with flush steel and bifold doors to a millimetre. Permits, structural drawings, and the City negotiation all included.
From $220,000
A complete reconsideration of a house — envelope, services, finishes — done in a single contiguous build, by a single crew, with a single point of contact for the entire programme.
From $1.4M
— Selected work, 2022–2025
We won't show you a hundred kitchens that look the same. These are the houses that taught us something — the ones we'd ask permission to photograph again.
Project 168 · Kerrisdale
2024
Project 159 · West Vancouver
2023
Project 151 · Point Grey
2023
Project 146 · Shaughnessy
2022
Project 138 · Burnaby
2022
— How we work
01 · Site visit We come to the house. We listen for ninety minutes. Then we leave and think about it for two weeks.
02 · Schematic A drawing set, a fixed-fee proposal, and a project programme — delivered to your kitchen table, not your inbox.
03 · Build One crew on your house from groundbreak to handover. Daily updates. Site cleaner than we found it.
04 · Handover A finished house, a binder of warranties, and a number you can call for the next ten years. We answer.
— Studio
Rowan House began in 2004 in a basement in Mount Pleasant. We were two carpenters with a clipboard and a strong opinion about how houses on the West Coast should age. Twenty years later we are still on the same coast, in the same trade, with the same opinion — and a crew of eleven who feel the same way.
We do not subcontract our framing, our finish carpentry, or our project management. We do not run more than three houses concurrently. We do not chase the busiest year of our lives — we chase the best year of yours.
Licensed in BC. Insured to $5M. Member of the Homebuilders Association of Vancouver since 2007.
— Voices, in their own words
— Begin a project
By post: 142 East 7th Avenue, Vancouver V5T 1M6
By telephone: +1 604 555 0142
By email: studio@rowanhouse.ca