How Much Does it Cost to Renovate a Kitchen in Greater Toronto Area

The kitchen is at the heart of any home. The design of your kitchen defines the ease of your daily cooking and the beauty that surrounds you. Your kitchen should be ergonomic and uplifting with modern features and efficient design. If it isn’t, then you are probably already planning your kitchen renovation. For homeowners in the greater Toronto area, you can calculate the cost of kitchen renovation services based on the size of your kitchen and the upgrades you have in mind.

The Rich Home Inc. team can help you plan and budget your renovation to achieve the most satisfying new kitchen at the right price for your household. Let’s take a closer look at kitchen remodel costs in the GTA.

Big vs Small Kitchen Renovations

• Small Kitchen Renovations: $6,000 to $20,000
• Medium Size Kitchen Renovation: $12,000 to $40,000
• Big Kitchen Renovations: $50,000 to $100,000

A kitchen renovation can be tidy and affordable or they can top the renovation expense charts. It all depends on the extent of changes you plan to make and whether you have your heart set on luxury-everything.

If money is no object, you can go all-out with your kitchen renovation, but there are also many practical ways to keep your costs neatly within your budget. Medium-sized kitchen renovations are a popular choice, balancing a few luxury upgrades, a little modernization, a fresh coat of paint, and a practical budgeting strategy.

Add a Kitchen Island

• New Kitchen Island: $800 to $7,000

More spacious kitchens and open-plan kitchens can be greatly improved with the addition of a kitchen island. You can more than double your effective workspace, transform a one-wall or L-shaped kitchen into an entertainer kitchen, and create a welcoming space for family to hang out while you cook.

A home’s kitchen island often becomes a new hub for family activity, serving as the breakfast table and action station as well as your new cooking surface. You can even add a stovetop or cool dedicated storage ideas.

New Kitchen Appliances

• Range (Stove and Oven): $400 to $6,000
• Cooktop: $200 to $3,000
• Fridge: $400 to $10,000
• Dishwasher: $300 to $2,000
• Wall Mounted Oven: $800 to $4,000
• Build-In Appliances: $100 to $300

Often, old appliances are the driving motivation for a kitchen renovation. A new range, oven, fridge, dishwasher, and more can really help to spruce up the functionality and appearance of your kitchen. Give yourself the gift of appliances you’ll love. Choose an electric or gas range with exactly the right distribution of burners for your cooking style. Gift yourself a whisper-quiet yet high-powered dishwasher to save hours on pre-rinsing each week. You can even go all-out with a wall-mounted double-oven.

Your budget may also be affected by whether you want free-standing appliances or add the cost of labor for building each one into the cabinetry.

Or budget your kitchen renovation by choosing just one or two deeply satisfying upgrades. This is also your chance to choose highly energy efficient (and water-conservative) appliances to improve the overall sustainability and eco-friendliness of your home.

 New Countertops

• Granite: $35 to $200 /sq ft
• Marble: $45 to $320 /sq ft
• Quartz: $65 to $155 /sq ft
• Butcher Block (Wood): $35 to $200 /sq ft
• Laminate: $19 to $45 /sq ft

Countertops are the crowning glory of your GTA kitchen renovation. They gleam along the top of your cabinets and set the stage for your color scheme. They also have a strong influence on your cooking (and cleaning) experience in your remodelled kitchen.

The average cost of a kitchen renovation is often set by the price of your new countertops, which depends heavily on your choice of material.

• Marble is beautiful and popular, but also soft, delicate, and expensive.
• Granite is elegant and all-purpose at a good price, but is speckled and messes are harder to see if you’re meticulous.
• Quartz is manmade and extremely heavy (you may need cabinet supports) and can look like any other stone. It doesn’t need to be sealed but is susceptible to acids.
• Laminate is a manufactured, lightweight countertop made from resins. It is by far the most affordable option, but has less lasting power than stone or quartz.

 Fun fact: Countertop stone is typically bought by the slab. Any of your slab left over after carving custom countertops is called ‘remnant stone’ and you can have a few extra accents made with it, like half-wall toppers, fireplace mantles, or stone inlay.

Additional Kitchen Renovation Options

• Tile Backsplash: $600 to $3,000
• Add/Remove Wall: $400 to $1,300
• Repaint Kitchen: $400 to $1,500
• Kitchen Floor: $1,500 to $5,000
• New Sink: $100 to $2,000
• New Plumbing / Plumbing Relocations: $500 to $1,000
• New Electrical Placement: $200 to $500
• Exhaust Fan: $200 to $8,000 (new vent)

Finally, the cost of your kitchen remodel will be determined by the accents you want to complete the new look and functional design.

Backsplash and Tile

A new backsplash can completely transform a kitchen’s style, with a cost that depends on the total backsplash size and your choice of tile.

Add/Remove a Wall

An extremely popular but high-priced kitchen renovation is the removal of one wall to create an open-plan living space. Making the kitchen part of the living room with an island or bar in the middle is so much more welcoming. Or you can add a wall to create a pantry or a dedicated laundry room.

Repainting

Repainting your kitchen adds only a modest price for a big impact. A fresh coat of paint can quickly transform the look and feel of any kitchen.

New Floors

A new kitchen floor can transform your experience at a tidy markup to the final price – again, depending on the material you choose.  You don’t even have to choose tile. With the latest engineered hardwood floor design, you can enjoy the look and feel of wood floors in the kitchen.

New Plumbing Fixtures

You might also want to consider new plumbing, like a deeper or two-part sink and a ice pot-filler + sprayer hose faucet for elegant ease of use. Add a new lever handle and you can increase the cleanliness and ease of your total cooking routine for a relatively small additional price.

New Plumbing Locations

Placing a new plumbing location or moving the location of your plumbing fixtures is a bigger investment, and involves opening up the wall as well as the cost of pipes and labor.

Electrical Installations

Electrical installations can be deeply rewarding. You can add the perfect outlet for your blender, a phone charging station, or lighting for your cabinets and countertops, but that extra wiring requires a master electrician and an addition to your budget.

Exhaust Fans

And if your kitchen exhaust fan inside the stove hood isn’t doing a good job, have it replaced. A new fan and filter can cost less than $250 total, but having a roof vent installed will add a few thousand to your cost.

Create Your Perfect New Kitchen with Rich Home Inc

A kitchen remodel is a chance to completely reinvent your at-home cooking experience. You can surround yourself with elegance while also improving the flow, functionality, and even the energy-efficiency of your kitchen design. Determining the kitchen renovation cost for your GTA home, however, depends on many different factors.

We have tried to give you a clear idea of how to estimate the price of your renovation based not just on generalities, but on the specific elements you might want to change. A few small changes in a small kitchen will pose the most affordable kitchen renovation, while luxury materials and more profound structural changes will achieve the highest possible kitchen renovation cost.

Likely, the cost of your Toronto kitchen remodel is somewhere in the middle. At Rich Home Inc. we are proud to help you plan the perfect kitchen remodel and see your dream kitchen vision come to life. Contact us today for a consultation on kitchen remodel design, budgeting, and the renovation process for the Greater Toronto Area.