Renovation Planning and Design Services in Markham
Design for the Household You Have, Not the One the Builder Assumed
Markham’s subdivisions were laid out for a household that many Markham families are not. Berczy Village, Wismer and Greensborough delivered four and five bedrooms upstairs and almost nothing usable on the main floor — no bedroom, no full bath, a dining room that gets used twice a year. When a parent moves in, or an adult child stays, that plan stops working. Renovation planning and design is where it gets rebuilt around the people actually living there.
905 Reno delivers the as-built drawings, structural direction, budgets and finish schedules for that work, prepared to the Ontario Building Code and City of Markham Building Standards requirements so the design and the permit are the same document.
Why Markham Homeowners Start at the Design Stage
Converting a formal dining room into a main-floor bedroom with an accessible bath is not a decorating decision — it touches plumbing stacks, floor framing, egress and often a bearing wall. Our designers work across everything Markham is built from: the heritage streets of Unionville and Markham Village, the rear-lane lots and detached garages of Cornell, the estate frontages in Cachet and Angus Glen, and the 1970s and 80s stock through Thornhill and Milliken Mills.
What a Markham homeowner gets from a 905 Reno design package:
Licensed and insured renovation design professionals serving Markham homeowners
Multi-generational layout and space planning specialists for York Region homes
Complete pre-construction service from measure through permit submission
Drawings prepared to the Ontario Building Code and City of Markham requirements
Scoped design fees with clear deliverables and agreed project dates
Finish schedules and material selections locked before pricing begins
We run the full pre-construction sequence — measure, concept, structure, permit set — so your Markham contractor begins with every decision already made.
What Planning Protects on a Markham Renovation
Multi-generational conversions touch more systems than any other residential project, and each one is cheaper to resolve on a drawing than in an open wall.
Hold the Budget Through a Complex Conversion
A dimensioned set and a finish schedule let trades price identical scope, so a multi-generational conversion in Berczy or Wismer does not rewrite its own budget mid-build.
Clear Heritage and Conservation Review First
Unionville and Markham Village heritage approvals, plus TRCA review near the Rouge and Don headwaters, are far cheaper to resolve at design than after a permit is refused.
Coordinate Plumbing, Structure and Finishes
Moving a bathroom or a kitchen affects stacks, venting and framing at once — a coordinated set tells every trade what is changing before demolition starts.
Ready for City of Markham Submission
Each drawing set is prepared to Ontario Building Code and City of Markham Building Standards, so permits proceed without repeated resubmission.
Design Directions That Fit Markham Homes
A heritage property on Main Street Unionville, a Cornell home with its garage off a rear lane, and a 2005 detached in Wismer present three different structures and three different approval paths, so each project starts with a measure, an as-built set and a conversation about how the household uses the space.
Where Markham projects most often go:
Main-floor bedroom and accessible bathroom conversions for multi-generational households
Secondary suite layouts with compliant egress, ceiling height and fire separation
Heritage-sensitive alterations for Main Street Unionville and Markham Village properties
Coach house and garage-conversion feasibility on Cornell rear-lane lots
Main floor reconfiguration and kitchen relocation for Berczy, Wismer and Greensborough builds
Where We Work Across Markham
905 Reno plans and designs renovations across Markham — through Unionville, Markham Village, and Thornhill, into Berczy Village, Wismer, and Greensborough, and out to Cornell, Cachet, Angus Glen, and Milliken Mills.
Two Markham specifics shape the work. Main Street Unionville and Markham Village sit within heritage conservation districts, where exterior changes carry an approval step most owners do not expect. And Markham falls entirely within TRCA jurisdiction, so properties near the Rouge River and Don headwaters need conservation review confirmed before drawings are finalised.
Why the Plan Decides What It Costs
Markham homeowners often learn that moving a bathroom or opening a bearing wall after demolition costs five to ten times what the same decision costs on paper — and that a heritage or conservation review nobody planned for can delay a permit by a full cycle.
A complete pre-construction package eliminates that risk and hands every trade the same reference.
905 Reno Manages Every Step of Your Renovation Planning and Design, Including:
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Site measure, structural review and accurate as-built drawings.
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Concept layouts, plumbing and load-path strategy, and 3D views where useful.
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Design development, finish schedules and material selections priced before approval.
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Permit drawings assembled for City of Markham Building Standards submission.
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Contractor handoff, trade coordination and design support through construction.
Start Your Markham Renovation on Paper
Settle the layout, the structure and the budget before anything is demolished. 905 Reno’s design team can plan your Markham renovation — whether that is a main-floor in-law suite in Wismer, a heritage-sensitive change in Unionville, or a coach house over a Cornell rear lane.