WORK
Full Home Renovation
YEAR
2026
OAKRIDGE
OAKMOUNT ESTATES RENOVATION – FULL HOME RENO
Project Overview
Oakmount Revival is a full-home Oakridge renovation in Calgary that brought a three-storey family home down to near-studs-out condition and rebuilt it with a refined, slightly traditional design direction. The project reorganized the home across all levels, using a rear-yard kitchen addition, custom millwork, upgraded windows, layered lighting, and high-end materials to create a more functional and cohesive family home.
Key Features
- Full-home renovation across three levels
- Rear-yard kitchen addition
- Expanded kitchen with oversized island
- Walk-through butler’s pantry
- Arched openings and barrel-arched cabinetry
- Mudroom with dog wash and dual washer-dryer stacks
- Basement gym, sauna, guest bedroom, and recreation space
- New energy-efficient windows and layered lighting
The Transformation
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Before Photos
After Photos
Renovation Goals
The homeowners wanted to modernize their family home without pushing it into an overly contemporary aesthetic. The existing layout had awkward angles, dated finishes, disconnected living zones, and underused spaces that no longer supported the way the family lived day to day. A key priority was to create a more intentional floor plan while introducing custom features that felt elevated, practical, and timeless.
- Reorganize the home across all three levels
- Create a larger, better-connected kitchen and main floor
- Improve storage, circulation, and family functionality
- Add high-performance spaces including a gym and sauna
- Use traditional detailing, warm materials, and custom millwork to create continuity
The key challenge in thie Oakridge renovation in Calgary was to resolve the home’s awkward geometry and open up the main floor while coordinating structural changes, new load points, and a rear-yard addition that needed to feel fully integrated into the original home.
Vision
Classic Family Living, Rebuilt with Purpose
The vision was to create a polished family home that felt warm, established, and highly functional, with traditional details layered into a modernized floor plan.
- A showpiece kitchen designed for cooking, gathering, and entertaining
- A main floor that connects naturally between kitchen, dining, great room, and rear entry
- Recurring arched details that add character and architectural rhythm
- Custom storage and specialty spaces tailored to a busy family
- A lower level designed for wellness, hosting, and everyday use
Bringing this vision to life required a plan-first design-build approach, with structural engineering, detailed millwork planning, and careful coordination across every level of the home.
Design Phase
Creating Clarity Before Construction
The design solution centred on a rear-yard kitchen addition that corrected the home’s awkward exterior angles and unlocked a more functional main-floor layout.
- Added square footage along the kitchen window wall
- Enlarged the kitchen and connected it to the butler’s pantry, dining room, great room, and rear entry landing
- Introduced arched openings as a recurring design motif
- Designed twin barrel-arched built-ins around the great-room fireplace
- Reworked the mudroom with locker storage, dual laundry, and a dog wash
- Reconfigured the upper floor around a more complete primary suite and children’s bedrooms with custom millwork
BEFORE & AFTER FLOOR PLANS
The floor plan strategy focused on correcting the home’s awkward main-floor geometry, improving how each level functioned, and creating a stronger relationship between daily family spaces and entertaining areas.
Old Floor Plan
The original main floor had multiple disconnected zones, with the kitchen, breakfast area, dining area, family room, living area, office, laundry, and powder room divided into separate spaces. Angled exterior walls around the kitchen limited layout options and made the main floor feel less efficient than its square footage suggested.
The basement and upper level also needed a more purposeful organization. The lower level included a family room, hockey/playroom, gym, bath, storage, mechanical room, and bedroom, but the layout did not fully support the wellness, recreation, and guest functions the homeowners wanted. Upstairs, the primary suite, ensuite, walk-in closet, children’s bedrooms, loft, and open-to-below area required reworking to improve storage, privacy, and daily flow.
New Floor Plan
The new main floor uses a rear-yard addition to create a larger kitchen with a better connection to the dining room, great room, pantry, and rear entry. The kitchen now functions as the centre of the home, supported by a walk-through butler’s pantry, generous island, integrated appliances, and improved circulation.
The lower level was rebuilt into a more complete family retreat, with a recreational room, gym, office, guest bedroom, bath, walk-in closet, bar area, and mechanical/storage zone. Upstairs, the primary suite was reconfigured with an ensuite, walk-in closet, built-in steam wardrobe, and improved bedroom layouts for the children, creating a more organized and comfortable home across all three levels.
3D RENDERINGS
Detailed 3D renderings helped establish the design direction before construction began, giving the homeowners a clear view of how the new kitchen, arched openings, millwork, lighting, and material palette would come together. For a renovation with this many custom details, visual planning was essential for confirming proportions, reviewing sightlines, and aligning every finish before work moved to site. This early clarity helped support accurate pricing, smoother coordination, and fewer surprises during construction.
Kitchen 3D Render
Ensuite 3D Render
Construction Phase
Bringing the Design to Life
Construction involved extensive coordination across structure, exterior work, interior framing, mechanical systems, millwork, and finish detailing. The rear-yard addition introduced new load points, while the kitchen beam was intentionally integrated as a design feature rather than hidden as a purely structural element.
- Rear-yard kitchen addition with new beams and screw piles
- Expanded kitchen with micro-plaster hood shroud
- 48-inch gas range, pot filler, wall ovens, and built-in espresso machine
- Walk-through butler’s pantry and panel-ready appliances
- Concrete-surround fireplace with twin barrel-arched cabinetry
- Mudroom with dog wash, locker storage, and dual washer-dryer stacks
- Basement sauna, gym, recreation room, and guest bedroom
Despite the scale and technical demands of this Calgary Oakridge renovation, the finished home feels cohesive because each structural move, custom feature, and finish selection was planned as part of one connected design-build vision.