Kitchen, bathroom, and full home renovations in Canmore with Town permit coordination. Calgary's 2x BILD Renovator of the Year. Fixed-price contracts. Free in-home consultation.
Canmore is 60 minutes west of our shop in SE Calgary, and it is a job we take on when the scope warrants it. Property values here are among the highest in Alberta, and homeowners expect renovation quality to match. Three Sisters, Silvertip, and Spring Creek have a mix of vacation properties and primary residences where the finishes matter. We have worked in Canmore since 2014 and know what those projects take.
That's where we come in. We don't send a salesperson to your door and disappear. The project manager who puts your plan together is the same person coordinating your job from start to finish. When something needs to change mid-project, there is no middle layer to navigate. The call gets made on site, same day.
If you've been sitting on a renovation in Canmore because you weren't sure who to trust with your home, this is what we'd suggest: book a consultation, walk us through what you want, and ask us the hard questions. There's no cost for that conversation, and no pressure after it.
3336 47 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2B 2R7
(403) 273-2202 | office@kay2.ca
Serving Canmore & the Calgary region
A lot of Canmore homes were finished with cabinets and countertops chosen for build cost, not for how a family actually uses a kitchen. After 10 years of cooking, entertaining, and kids doing homework at the island, the shortcomings are obvious. The layout doesn't flow. There's never enough storage. The counters are beat up. The range hood vents nowhere.
We gut it and rebuild it properly, layout first, finishes second. Mountain kitchens often need more than a finish update: layouts sized for vacation use do not always work once the home becomes a primary residence. Cabinets are measured and built for the actual space, and finishes are specified for mountain conditions.
If you're in Three Sisters with a larger footprint, we can open up a wall and reconfigure the space entirely. If you're working with tighter square footage in Peaks of Grassi, we know how to make every inch count without it feeling small.
The ensuite in most Canmore builds from the 2000s follows the same template: a tub that nobody uses, a single vanity with limited storage, a separate shower that barely fits one person, and tile that dates the room by a decade. We've renovated dozens of these across Canmore, and the ask is usually consistent: get rid of the tub, make the shower bigger, give us real storage, and make the room feel like somewhere we actually want to be.
We do curbless shower conversions, heated floor tile, double vanities, freestanding soakers, and steam units. Heated floors are practical in mountain homes where cold tile in the morning is a genuine quality-of-life issue. All tile work and plumbing is coordinated in scope from the start.
We also handle powder rooms, main floor bathrooms, and basement bath rough-ins. If you're in a home in Silvertip or South Canmore and you're looking at adding a 4-piece to the basement development, we can work that into the scope from the start.
A lot of Canmore builders poured the footings and roughed in the plumbing, then left the basement unfinished for the homeowner to figure out. Most people live with it for a few years before deciding the wasted square footage is worth addressing. Done properly, a basement development adds 600 to 1,100 square feet of usable living space to a home, and in Canmore's current market, it adds to resale value in a way that most other renovations don't match.
We have finished basements as media rooms, home offices, gear rooms with ski and bike storage, and guest suites with full bathrooms. Mountain properties use basement space differently from city homes, and we design around how the space will actually be used through the seasons.
A lot of Canmore families bought a home that fit at the time and are now figuring out how they ended up with four people and one bathroom. The square footage made sense five years ago. It doesn't today. Moving is one option. Adding on is often smarter: you stay on the street you know, your kids stay in their school, and you get a house that actually fits.
We build additions in mountain towns with full Town and Parks Canada permit coordination. Every addition starts with a permit pre-consultation, structural engineering, and exterior design review to meet the municipality's requirements. Mountain additions require more upfront approval work than city projects, and we build that time into every schedule.
Whether you need an additional bedroom, a mudroom sized for ski gear and outdoor equipment, an expanded kitchen that works for a primary residence rather than vacation use, or a guest suite, we coordinate the permits and design it to meet the mountain municipality's exterior standards.
Canmore weather isn't gentle. The wind off the foothills, the freeze-thaw cycles, the hail that moves through the corridor every few summers: these things eat at siding, windows, and roofing in ways that get expensive if you wait. We handle exterior work alongside interior renovations, so if you're already pulling permits for a kitchen, we can assess the building envelope at the same time and deal with problems before they become water damage.
Our team handles siding replacement, window and door packages, soffit and fascia, and deck builds on mountain properties. Canmore and Banff have specific exterior material and colour requirements, and we specify products that meet those standards. Mountain weather also means spec-ing for conditions that would not apply to a Calgary job.
Sometimes the kitchen is dated, the bathrooms need work, the floor plan does not fit how the home is actually being used, and the exterior is not holding up to mountain weather the way it should. A full renovation in a mountain town often makes sense as one coordinated scope, particularly when permit timelines benefit from batching the work.
We start with a full walk-through, a permit pre-consultation with the mountain municipality, and a scope assessment covering both interior and exterior work. From there we sequence the trades correctly, pull all required permits, and build to a fixed price. Everything is coordinated before any work begins.
We've taken Canmore homes down to the studs and rebuilt them from the inside out. The result is a house that feels completely new without the cost of selling, buying, and moving.
We come to your Canmore home, walk through the scope, discuss your budget honestly, and answer every question you have. No sales pitch.
Within a few days you receive a detailed, fixed-price proposal. Every line item is spelled out. What you see is what you pay.
Material selections, layout decisions, and a build schedule are locked in before a single wall comes down. No surprises mid-project.
Our in-house crews handle the full build with a dedicated site supervisor. Nothing is signed off until you're completely satisfied.
Every trade on your project is a Kay2 employee: carpenters, tile setters, plumbers, electricians, painters. One team, one standard, one schedule. If something needs fixing, we own it.
We don't quote a number and then add to it as the job moves along. The price you agree to is the price on the final invoice. Budget overruns are our problem, not yours.
All Kay2 projects come with a written 2-year workmanship warranty. If something isn't right six months later, we come back and make it right. No runaround.
We've won the BILD Calgary Region Renovator of the Year award twice, plus multiple CHBA and HomeStars recognitions. These are judged by independent industry panels, not self-reported.
We're not a Calgary company that occasionally drives north. Canmore is part of our regular schedule, which means shorter response times and no travel premium on your quote.
Our 5,000 sq ft Calgary showroom has full kitchen and bathroom displays, cabinetry lines, tile and stone samples, and our design team on site. Worth the 30-minute drive before you finalize any selections.
"We hired Kay2 to develop our basement after talking to three other contractors. They were the only ones who came back with a fixed price and a real schedule. They finished on time, on budget, and the space looks like it was always part of the house. Highly recommend."
"The kitchen renovation turned out better than anything we'd imagined. The team was professional, they kept the site clean every day, and there were no surprises on the invoice. The fixed-price contract made the whole process a lot less stressful."
"We'd been putting off the ensuite renovation for two years because we weren't sure who to trust. A neighbour recommended Kay2, and it was the right call. The tile work is perfect, the curbless shower is exactly what we wanted, and they finished in three and a half weeks."
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