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Home Renovation in Clanton Park
Wilson Heights Boulevard · Clanton Park · Wilson Avenue · Sheppard Avenue West
Clanton Park: original bungalows beside twenty-year-old custom houses
Clanton Park sits west of Bathurst around Wilson Heights Boulevard, named for the park at its centre, with Wilson station and the Sheppard West subway nearby. It was built out in the 1950s with brick bungalows on decent-sized lots, and since the 1990s a large share of those bungalows have been replaced by big two-storey custom houses. The result is a neighbourhood with two very different renovation markets on the same block. The remaining bungalows need what any post-war house needs. The custom houses, many now fifteen to twenty-five years old, need something else: their finishes have dated. Cherry or maple cabinets with granite, jetted tubs in every ensuite, travertine and polished tile, iron-picket stairs, and pot lights on old transformers are what we expect to find. The structure is new and sound, so the money goes almost entirely into what you can see and use every day.
Price ranges: North York · cost guide
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Recent projects in North York, near Clanton Park
We have not yet published a project in Clanton Park itself. These are the 2 projects we completed in North York, the city Clanton Park sits in — the same crew, the same drive. View all projects.
Clanton Park blocks: the two kinds of house
Custom two-storeys from the 2000s
Large houses with a centre hall, double-height foyer and four bathrooms. Kitchens are big but closed in by heavy cabinetry and bulkheads. Updating them is about lightening: new doors or new cabinets, a different counter, flush ceilings and better lighting.
Remaining 1950s bungalows
Original houses on the same streets, often with a basement apartment or a rec room. Work here is a classic post-war update: electrical, plumbing supply, a rebuilt bathroom, and a kitchen joined to the dining room where the structure allows.
Around the park
Streets that face Clanton Park and its fields. Many of the custom houses here have finished basements with home theatres and wet bars from the same era, which owners now want turned into a guest suite or a gym.
Wilson Heights Boulevard
The main north-south spine, with houses facing a wide road and the subway corridor nearby. Interior work only for us, but we plan deliveries and bin placement around the traffic on the boulevard.
Bathurst Street edge
Houses close to Bathurst sit near shops and services. Several have larger households, so the requests run to an extra bathroom, a second laundry, and kitchens with two sinks or a second oven.
A 2000s ensuite and kitchen, brought forward twenty years
A typical Clanton Park job starts in the primary ensuite of a custom house built around 2005. The jetted tub on its tiled deck comes out, along with the travertine, the corner shower with its brass-framed door, and the two pedestal sinks. We open the floor to move the drain and build a large walk-in shower with a linear drain, a bench and a niche, on a proper waterproofing membrane. A freestanding tub goes where the deck was, if the owners want one. The vanity becomes a wall-hung double unit with drawers. Downstairs, the kitchen keeps its layout; we replace the doors or the full boxes, remove the bulkhead above the uppers, and swap the granite for quartz. Surprises: a failed shower pan under the old tile and undersized fan ducting. Five to seven weeks covers both rooms.
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What drives the cost of a home renovation in Clanton Park?
Scale of finishes. A 3,000-square-foot custom house from the 2000s has three or four bathrooms, a kitchen twice the size of a bungalow’s, and long runs of trim and stair, so every finish choice multiplies. Swapping jetted tubs for showers, replacing travertine, and refacing or replacing large kitchens add up line by line. On original bungalows the costs are the familiar ones: panel, plumbing, and a main floor that needs opening.
Our custom house is only twenty years old. Is it worth renovating the ensuite?
If the shower leaks or the jetted tub goes unused, yes. Many showers from that era were built over older waterproofing methods that are now failing, and the damage spreads under the tile before you see it. We open the shower, check the pan and walls, and rebuild on a modern membrane. Everything else in the house can usually stay exactly as it is.
Should we reface our large kitchen or replace it?
If the cabinet boxes are solid wood or good plywood and the layout works, refacing with new doors, drawer fronts and hardware saves a lot and takes less time. If the boxes are particleboard with water damage under the sink, or the layout needs to change, replacing makes more sense. We check the boxes on site and price both options side by side.
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