RENOVATIONS
STEVE & LESLIE
Thinking about refreshing and renovating your home but no idea where to start?
Don’t fear! Certified Home Extensions are here to help!
▸ Tripping over each other in the kitchen?
▸ Family can’t fit around the dining room table?
▸ Wallpaper peeling or maybe key areas of your home were never insulated?
▸ Not sure whether you need Building Consent?
▸ Know you have space but not sure how to maximize it?
Choosing to renovate your home is often just as challenging as choosing to extend or build. You are likely to ask yourself a hundred questions, trying to make sure that you have all of your ducks lined up in a row to avoid costly mistakes. You could probably use some help from a team with extensive renovations experience.
Give us a call and let’s begin your renovation journey today! Over 79% of our 176 projects have involved some type of renovation. You can rest assured knowing that Certified Builders with extensive experience are in charge of your project. We will tell you whether you need consent, make any recommendations or offer any advice necessary to maximize the space and potential of your existing home. We will manage the process for you every step of the way to ensure your home gets renovated smoothly and stress-free!
Do you know that your home needs a full or partial renovation or remodel? Feeling overwhelmed at the thought of where to start?
Don’t fear, Certified Home Extensions are here to help, with your full house renovation needs!
If your family is;
▸ Tripping over each other in the kitchen?
▸ Elbow to elbow around the dining room table?
▸ Wiping condensation off single glazed windows every morning and evening, and spending a fortune on heating?
▸ Sick of the sight of peeling wallpaper or know that parts or all of your home have never been insulated?
▸ Lucky enough to have a bungalow or villa in Auckland, but know that it needs modernising and updating?
Completing a full house renovation and/or remodel is definitely the way to go.
Starting a full house renovation, especially if it is on a bungalow or villa can feel daunting, but if you have the right person for the job, you’ll be able to rest easy. Our team has extensive experience with full house remodels, so we’ll guide you every step of the way to make certain that you avoid costly mistakes, there are limited surprises and you have an easy, end to end experience.
79% of the 207 projects that we’ve completed have involved some sort of renovation or remodel of the existing house, whether it be full or partial. We can tell you whether or not your renovation needs consent, make any recommendations necessary to help you maximise space and help you to maintain the character of your bungalow or villa.
If that sounds like what you need, then give us a call and lets begin the journey today!
Bright, Beautiful Kitchens
The majority of the full house renovations that our team complete involve the kitchen, which is an area that dates quickly and typically requires a full or partial remodel every 10 to 15 years (depending on how clever you are with your choices & design).
Choosing to invest in your kitchen as part of your full house renovation or partial remodel is a decision that you won’t regret. This is an area that is the heart of your home, where you spend quality family time after busy days at work and school and where you entertain family and friends on the weekend. Having an open plan area that you can be proud of and enjoy spending time in, plus has all of the storage you need for appliances, has massive benefits not only for your lifestyle but also your personal wellbeing. You want to be able to chat to your kids or your friends while you’re cooking, not tucked away in a dark cluttered corner, elbow to elbow with your partner as you rush to get dinner on the table!
Here at Certified Home Extensions, we always use and recommend a custom built kitchen for your house renovation or remodel, as opposed to a flatpack. While flatplacks are lower cost, this is definitely reflected in the quality, longevity and ease of installation. We want your completed remodel to include a stunning kitchen, where every aspect is functional, that will be the envy of your family and friends! & this is also what we strive to achieve with every full house renovation or remodel that we complete.
As part of this renovation, we re-located the kitchen from one side of the room to the other. This not only improved indoor-outdoor flow, but the overall layout of the house as well, making it feel more open, welcoming and spacious.
The original plan for David & Philippa’s bungalow in Mt Albert was to complete a second level addition to give them a master suite and small living area. Unfortunately they were unable to do this because of planning rules, so instead we did a full bungalow renovation, which gave them the master suite of their dreams (featured), as well as a modern kitchen, large living area and luxurious bathroom.
Bungalow & Villa Renovations
If you’re lucky enough to own a bungalow or villa in Auckland, we’re jealous! Our team doesn’t play favourites, but if we did, these would be some of the coolest full house renovations and/or remodels that we have completed, because of their historic, character filled charm.
Bungalow & Villa renovations are tricky, and you definitely need somebody with expertise to help you ensure that the original character of your home is preserved, while we add modern features and functionality to the inside. Under the expertise of Certified Home Extensions, a bungalow or villa renovation is easy. We’ll use our experience to offer you valuable insights into little touches that can be incorporated to respect the era of your home, offer you a fixed price to make certain there are no nasty surprises and provide the necessary craftsmanship (standard building skills won’t cut it) to make sure that the end result of your bungalow or villa renovation will last for the next 100 years.
Maximizing Internal Space
21st century homes are all about bright, open plan space that are perfect for housing the family, proving a place for all of the clutter that accumulates and entertaining extended family and friends. If you live in an older property you’ll know that this was not something that was a key focus in mid-century, or earlier homes and that’s where a full house remodel comes in.
Instead of the open plan living area of your dreams, you might have many small, dark, cluttered areas within the existing floor plan of your home, that leave you scratching your head, knowing that the space could be better utilised, but not sure how to go about it. Based on our experience, the careful removal of a wall (or three) as part of a bigger full house renovation or remodel can make a massive difference to the feel of your home.
Knowing how to maximise the space within your home is tricky, especially if you’ve been looking at the walls for years wondering what the possibilities are. Before you lift a hammer, and start making plans to remove walls, you should take advantage of a free, no obligations consultation with somebody like ourselves. We looked at hundreds if not thousands of houses in the last thirty years so can give you some great advice that will help you to visualise what your home will look like, once your full house remodel has been completed.
This kitchen renovation which we completed for the Richards family in East Auckland involved the removal of three walls to create a large open plan space that was perfect for entertaining. We also updated the aesthetic and added some large doors for indoor-outdoor flow - now they are throwing dinner parties with pride every weekend!
AUCKLAND’S MOST TRUSTED HOME RENOVATIONS EXPERT!
4 reasons why you can trust Certified Home Extension to make refreshing & renovating your treasured family home easy
While old homes are full of character, they often lack the modern amenities that your family deserves e.g. second bathroom or spacious master suite, why not live in the twenty first century? Enjoy a modern lifestyle that is made easy by indoor-outdoor flow, spacious bedrooms & more than one bathroom. If this doesn’t sound like your home, don’t despair and put it on the market, just consider an extension – that way you’ll get everything you need + the unique features of your present home that you adore.
Depending on your individual situation and/or requirements you may want to extend your house up, out, down or a combination of the above. Read on to find out a little more about each option & start the process of considering which one might work best for your family.
Happy Renovation Client
STEVE & LESLIE
Happy Clients
4 REASONS WHY RENOVATING YOUR HOME IS EASY WITH CHE
1. Expert Experience and Knowledge
Full house renovations are considerably more challenging than starting from scratch with a bare piece of land and building a new home. It is critical to the quality of your full home remodel and also the experience that you have while construction is taking place, that your builder has experience with older homes, the more the better.
Alvin, our company director at Certified Home Extensions, has been extending, renovating and remodelling older homes since the early days of his apprenticeship in the late 90’s. He can now look at a home pre-construction and identify possible challenges before any work takes places. This experience makes us well qualified to help you as you embark on a full house renovation, especially if it is a bungalow or villa. The end result of your house renovation will be top quality, with old and new seamlessly integrated.
2. Complete Turnkey Solution
Spending quality time with family and friends is the top priority for most of our full house renovation clients. The last thing that they want to be doing is trying to juggle the project management of their remodel, with work, basic house maintenance and raising children.
That’s where we come in. Our team assists with the design process, deals with the council to obtain the required consents, organises the sub-trades and manages the construction process of your full home remodel, while keeping you updated every step of the way. This ensures the journey towards completing a full house renovation is as stress-free as possible, leaving you free to focus on the important things, like watching your home transform before your eyes.
3. (Awesome) Action Plans
Our action plan is the fixed price proposal that we’ll go over together, before we start work on your full house renovation. This proposal is 33+ pages broken down into approximately 24 categories, meaning you understand every part of what we have included and excluded for your full home remodel.
Sometimes it takes 2-3 revisions to get everything on those pages 100% correct, but we’re happy to do 200 revisions if that is what it takes. We want you to understand every detail of your full home renovation and what is is going to look like once we have finished construction. Our guarantee to you is that you will be impressed with the depth of detail that we cover, and we’ll personally present this to you, so any questions can be answered and you have absolute clarity before any hammers are lifted. No question is a silly question, we want to be transparent at every stage.
4. Comprehensive Communication
Excellent communication is key to the success of your full house renovation and that is something that we strive to deliver at every stage of the process. Clear communication means that there is no stuff ups and that everybody understands every detail of what your full home remodel will look like from the beginning. It is especially critical with a bungalow or villa renovation, as even a tiny detail wrong can change the aesthetic of the renovation completely.
We have a dedicated project management software for clients to use during their full house renovation or home remodel, which gives you access to a messaging platform and project schedule, so no matter where you are in the world you can stay up to date. Our team will also email you a progress report every Friday and of course we can be reached at any time with questions, comments or just for a good old fashioned yarn.
Your extension journey usually begins when you make the decision to give us a call on 09 236 6944.
During our first phone call we’ll ask you a few questions so that we gain the most accurate understanding possible of how we can help you best.
Once we have finished & become fast friends, we’ll schedule a time for one of our team to come out and see you so that we can complete the picture as to what your completed extension dream will look like.
Once we have touched base for the first time (see Step One) we will usually schedule a time for one of our team to come out to your home and meet with you and any other decision making parties that may be involved with your project.
Our main purposes during this session is to leave with the full understanding of your reasons for choosing to extend or renovate, the financial resources you have available, the timeline that you would like to meet and the picture you have in your head of what your completed dream for your home will look like.
We encourage you to have on hand any ideas, house plans, section information, pinterest boards or any other relevant information that will be helpful for us when we are seeking to help you make the dream that you have for your home a reality. Remember any question is a good question so never be afraid to ask during these sessions!
(If you have plans already skip ahead to Step 5)
Once we have met onsite for the first time, we’ll arrange for you to meet with one of our personally chosen architectural designers who will be ideally suited to your project.
Their extensive experience (all of our designers have been drawing plans for 10+ years) will enable them to add to or improve any ideas that we have come up with together – that is if we haven’t found the perfect solution already while getting a feel for exactly what you want to achieve from your building project.
Within 2-3 days of this session we’ll send you an investment proposal for how much the designer believes the design stage of your dream will cost and once you are happy they will be able to start drawing!
With their extensive architectural experience, they will further add on to any ideas previously discussed and more and will be able to quickly identify challenges on site that council may pick us up on. By identifying these challenges early we can better prepare ourselves later down the track during council consents stage.
We pride ourselves on the way that we coordinate the process of getting from concepts to building consent from our clients, believing that bar any unforeseen complications we can have you ready to start construction approx six weeks faster then any other company.
The team at CHE does this through constant communication; with you so that you always know what is happening and with the designer + council to make sure that you remain a priority and that things happen as fast as possible.
Dealing with council especially can often be quite challenging and that’s the real bonus of dealing with a company like us, we spend our day working for you making sure that your dream for your home is made a reality as smoothly and with as little stress as possible!
Within 10 days of us submitting for Building Consent we will schedule a site visit with all of our important subcontractors e.g. builder, plumber, electrician etc. We feel that it is in the best interests of all parties to get the specialists to site to give us a price so to speak as they can sometimes make us aware of potential problems or issues, reducing the risk of any unforeseen surprises and giving you complete clarity before you start paying our guys to do a job that for some reason may be more difficult than expected for them to complete.
Once they have submitted their prices to us, we will compile them into a 13 page Action Plan. This Action Plan is tailored to your project and will give you a full understanding of what has and has not been taken into consideration e.g. we may exclude electrical work because you have your own electrician that you would like to use. Alvin will personally present this plan to you and go through every detail, the last thing that we want you to be saying is “Hey, I thought that was included.”
Hooray! Once you are happy and have signed off on your Action Plan we can usually begin construction within 4-6 weeks. (depending on the availability of the builder).
During Construction Alvin will organize weekly meetings and send weekly reports so that we ensure that you are kept updated every step of the way.
If you have a question, would like an additional meeting or require clarification at anytime then give us a call and we will be happy to arrange whatever necessary.
The end of our journey together draws nigh!
At this stage your extension dream has been made reality, final payments have been made and you are living happily ever after!
You will also receive;
- Commercial Cleaning of your Home
- Signed Off Code of Compliance Certificate
- A Bottle of Champers and a Gift Basket to celebrate
Of course our journey together will never really be over, we pride ourselves on providing the ultimate level of service even when your building project has been completed If something should come up throughout the course of you living in your dream then feel free to give us a call and we will be more then happy to help.
Get in touch
You may reach us through the following:
- 09-233-3113
- emily@certifiedhomeextensions.co.nz
