Guides
Kitchen Renovation Guides for Vancouver Island
Oceanside Kitchen Studio publishes three straightforward guides: what a kitchen renovation costs here, which permits you need, and how to design a kitchen you can still use in twenty years. We wrote them so you can get the answer before you talk to anybody.
How Much Does a Kitchen Renovation Cost in Parksville & Qualicum Beach? (2026 Guide)
Oceanside Kitchen Studio quotes most kitchen renovations in Parksville and Qualicum Beach from $15,000 to $70,000 and up, depending on scope. We put every project in writing after an in-home visit, so you get one number rather than an estimate.
Read guide →Kitchen Renovation Permits in Parksville, Qualicum Beach and the RDN
Oceanside Kitchen Studio pulls the permits for the kitchens we build. Cosmetic updates need no building permit. Structural, plumbing and most electrical work does, and which office issues it depends on whether your house sits inside Parksville, inside Qualicum Beach, or out in the rural areas. We handle the application either way.
Read guide →Aging-in-Place Kitchen Design in Qualicum Beach & Oceanside
Oceanside Kitchen Studio designs and builds aging-in-place kitchens across Qualicum Beach, Parksville and the Oceanside region — kitchens you can keep using safely and independently for decades. It is a large part of what we do here.
Read guide →Why we wrote these
Most of the questions we answer on a first visit are the same questions, and they have straight answers: what a permit covers, why stone gets templated after the cabinets are set, what makes one cabinet box cost twice another, how long a job actually takes the room out of use. We put them in writing so you can read them before you talk to anybody, and arrive at the conversation already knowing which parts of the job are fixed and which parts are genuinely your choice. The prices come from kitchens we have finished, and each guide carries the month we last reviewed it.
Where to start
If you mainly want to know whether the project is affordable, start with the cost guide. If you already know what you want and the question is whether you're allowed to do it, start with the permits guide, because the answer changes what the work costs. The accessibility guide is worth reading even if nobody in the house needs it yet — several of those details cost nothing extra while the room is open and a great deal to retrofit later.
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