Home Renovations

Square One handles renovations and refurbishments across Cape Town, Gauteng and the surrounding areas: full refurbishments and targeted upgrades, from bathrooms and kitchens to yards and exteriors. Renovation work is unforgiving — you're building into existing structure, matching what's already there, and living around the mess — so it rewards a team that plans the sequence and finishes cleanly. That's where three decades on site shows up.

The kind of work we take on

• En suite & bathroom renovations — stripping a dated bathroom back and rebuilding it properly. Our Benoni en suite was reworked with large-format tiling, a frameless glass shower, a floating vanity and matte-black fittings, finished with backlit mirrors for a hotel-style feel. A Paarl en suite was taken back to the walls and rebuilt with full-height tiling, a frameless walk-in shower and modern black fixtures.
• Feature builds — like the Benoni fireplace: a living-room feature clad floor-to-ceiling in stacked stone-effect tile, built around a black glass-fronted wood-burning insert with a built-in log-storage niche below.
• Kitchens, yards & exteriors — targeted upgrades that lift the feel and value of the whole property.

How we work

We look at what's there, agree a clear scope and price, then run the job so it stays on track — coordinating the trades, protecting the parts of your home we're not touching, and finishing to a standard you'd be happy to show off. There's one team and one point of contact from the first walk-through to the final clean.

Most renovations happen in a home you're still living in, so how the work is run matters as much as the finish. We plan the sequence to keep disruption contained — sealing off the rooms we're working in, protecting floors and furniture, and keeping dust and mess away from the parts of the house you're still using. Where a project is big enough, we can stage it so you're never without a working bathroom or kitchen for longer than necessary. The result is a renovation that feels managed rather than chaotic, and a home handed back clean, not just finished.

And because we also build from the ground up and handle design, a renovation can grow into an extension or a reworked floor plan without changing teams. Browse the renovation projects below, look through the full portfolio, or tell us about the space you want to change.