” The client wanted to freshen up her home with new custom en-suite bathroom, kitchen remodel, and sitting room update.  The job included new hardwood floors, barn style roller doors, new pantry and storage area, and skylight.  We worked with our customer’s schedule and protected areas not being worked on with floor coverings and dust [...]

Working hand in glove with your contractor is essential when taking on a major renovation; when your goal is a home that blends seamlessly with its beautiful natural setting, it takes on the status of an ethos. That’s why the relationship between Alair Homes and the Philippson family, forged during the transformation of an awkward [...]

Renovating Your Victoria BC Home To Include A Secondary Suite Renovating a home so as to include a secondary suite, which is to say a self-contained dwelling within a home, has its benefits. It is an ideal way, for instance, for people to bring elderly family members under their care while, at the same time, [...]

Many of us have underutilized basements lurking beneath our Vancouver Island homes. Large unfinished or semi-finished spaces, cave-like storage areas for tools and Christmas decorations, a dungeon to which the washer, dryer, furnace, and water heater have been eternally sentenced. In some cases these are substantial spaces which a home renovation contractor can help put [...]

Egress Windows – Shedding Light On A Savvy Basement Renovation Project If your Victoria home features an unfinished basement, and you are considering some sort of renovation, you will want to look to the windows before you consider anything else. If you have a small ground-level basement window which cannot be used as a means [...]

There are a few undeniable benefits to building a home addition as opposed to renovating your home or moving to a bigger Vancouver Island home. The question is, though, for whom are you building it? Are you building it primarily for yourself, in order to prolong and enhance your quality of life? Or are you [...]

It has been over a year since you last purchased an actual compact disc; furthermore, the last five CDs you picked up were each handled exactly once, when you took them out of the case and imported the music to your iTunes library on your home computer. More and more it is looking as though [...]

Transforming your new home The Purchase Plus program is a Canadian mortgage product that allows clients who are purchasing a house to access an additional ten percent of the purchase price of their home for any custom home renovations or improvements that they would like to do. Alair Renovations works together with your finance provider [...]