Auckland Home Renovation
Apex Build & Deco renovates older Auckland homes one room at a time or all at once. Senior in-house designers plan the layout and the finishes, LBP licensed builders and licensed trades do the work, and the whole job sits under one fixed-price contract.
What We Handle
A full home renovation touches structure, services, layout and finishes at the same time. We plan all four together, so the trades are not working against each other and you are not the one holding the programme together.
Older Auckland homes were built for a different way of living: small, separated rooms and a kitchen tucked away at the back. We rework the floor plan, open up the living areas and bring light into the middle of the house, keeping the character features you want to keep.
Piles and subfloor, framing repairs, roof and cladding work, then rewiring and replumbing by licensed electricians and licensed plumbers. This is the part of a renovation you only get one chance at, so it is done before any finishes go on.
Insulation, ventilation and heating are planned as part of the renovation rather than added afterwards, because a villa or bungalow that has been opened up behaves differently once the walls are closed in again.
New kitchens, bathroom renovations, flooring, tiling, joinery and interior and exterior painting, all specified by our in-house designers so the finishes across the house belong together.
Older Auckland Homes
Most of the houses we renovate were built long before the way people use a home today. Each era comes with its own list of things to check before the design is locked in.
Villas give you ceiling height, sash windows and detail worth keeping, alongside piles that have moved, wiring that predates modern loads and a kitchen that was never meant to be the centre of the house. A villa renovation is usually part restoration and part rebuild, and the design has to respect both.
Bungalows tend to have good bones and a floor plan that closes the living areas off from the garden. Opening the rear of the house, relocating the kitchen and reworking the indoor to outdoor connection is the work that changes how a bungalow lives.
Later homes are usually structurally sound and dated in layout and services. The work is more about insulation, heating, joinery and finishes than about structure, which changes the budget and the programme.
If you already have an architect or a designer, we build to their drawings and join the conversation at pricing stage. If you do not, our senior in-house designers can take the project from first sketch through to selections.
Areas. We renovate homes across the wider Auckland region, from the central suburbs to east Auckland, the North Shore, west Auckland and south Auckland. Based in Mount Eden, serving Auckland-wide.
Room By Room, Or All At Once
One consent, one scaffold, one set of trades, one handover. It is the shorter path overall and it usually means moving out for part of the programme.
Kitchen and living first, bedrooms and bathrooms later. It keeps you in the house and spreads the spend, and it asks for a master plan up front so that stage two does not undo stage one.
We will tell you which of the two suits your house and your budget at the free site visit, before there is a contract on the table.
Need more floor area, not just a better layout? That is an addition rather than a renovation, and it brings the Council consent process with it. See house extensions and home additions.
How It Works
We walk the house with you, look at what is behind the linings where we can, and talk through what you want from the home and what you are working with as a budget.
Our designers develop the layout and prepare the drawings, and we help you choose the finishes. Where the work needs a building consent, we prepare and lodge the paperwork with Auckland Council.
You receive a detailed, itemised contract with a clear scope and a staged programme before any work starts.
Our licensed team works to the programme, keeps the site tidy and keeps you updated at every stage.
We walk through the finished home with you and hand over the paperwork for the work that was consented.
Why Apex Build & Deco
A whole-house renovation is months of decisions. We listen first, explain the options in plain language and keep you updated at every stage, so you always know what is happening and why.
Our in-house interior designers plan layouts, finishes and style, and turn what you have in mind into a buildable set of drawings.
Clear scopes, detailed fixed quotes and no hidden costs. You know what is included before we start, and variations are priced and agreed in writing.
Led by LBP licensed builders and backed by licensed plumbers and electricians, with every consented stage inspected and signed off.
Good To Know
It comes down to the age and condition of the house, how much of the structure and services you are replacing, and the level of finish. After the free site visit we give you a fixed-price contract with itemised costs, so you are comparing a real number rather than a guess.
The programme depends on the scope, on what we find once the linings come off, and on whether the work needs a building consent. You get a staged timeline with your contract.
Sometimes. If the work is staged, we can often keep a kitchen, a bathroom and a bedroom in service while the rest of the house is under way. For a whole-house renovation, most homeowners move out for the main part of the programme. We will tell you which applies at the site visit.
Structural changes, new plumbing and drainage, and work that changes the fire or weathertightness performance of the house generally do; like-for-like finishes generally do not. We tell you which parts of your project need consent, and we prepare and lodge the application with Auckland Council.
Yes. We price and build from their drawings, and we join at pricing stage so the design and the budget meet before the documents are finished.
We work across the wider Auckland region. Based in Mount Eden, serving Auckland-wide, Monday to Friday.
Get Started
Tell us about your house and what you want it to become. We will arrange a no-obligation site visit and quote. Friendly advice, honest pricing and a team that does what it says.
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