Apartment renovations are a different job to renovating a house. The space is tighter, every centimetre of storage counts, and there is a strata building and an owners corporation to work around. We are a family-run, licensed NSW contractor — licence 383725C — with 12 years of experience, based in Liverpool and working right across Sydney, including strata buildings city-wide. We renovate kitchens, bathrooms and storage in apartments and units, and we handle the strata approval paperwork, the noise restrictions and the building access rules so the job runs without a fight with the owners corporation. We organise and manage every trade — cabinetmaker, plumber, electrician, tiler and painter — which matters even more in a building where you cannot have five contractors turning up on different days. You get one fixed-price quote, one point of contact, and a clear start and finish date before we begin.
Usually yes for anything beyond cosmetic work. Cosmetic changes like painting or replacing a tap generally do not need approval, but renovations involving waterproofing, plumbing, flooring or structural work almost always require the owners corporation to sign off first, often by a by-law. Bathrooms are the clearest case because of waterproofing. We help prepare the scope, our licence and insurance, and the trade details the strata committee needs, so the approval goes through cleanly before work starts.
Yes, and doing them together often makes sense in an apartment. It means one approval process, one mobilisation into the building, one point of contact across all the trades and one disruption to live through rather than two. We sequence the work so the noisy and wet stages happen within the building's approved hours. Running both rooms as a single scope also keeps the finishes consistent and usually works out more efficient than booking two separate renovations months apart.
A typical apartment kitchen or bathroom needs a demolisher, a plumber, an electrician, a waterproofer, a tiler, a cabinetmaker and a painter, plus a stonemason for the benchtop. In a strata building, coordinating that many trades around access hours and lift bookings is where jobs go wrong. Because we organise and manage every trade, scheduled in the right order, you are not managing seven separate contractors or copping the gaps when one blames another. One point of contact owns the whole job.
Send us photos of the existing kitchen or bathroom, a floor plan if you have one, and a note on what you want to change and your building's renovation rules if you know them. We can give you a realistic budget range quickly, then arrange a site visit for a detailed fixed quote. We are family-run, Liverpool-based and work Sydney-wide, including strata buildings across the city. Call 02 5000 0402 or use the contact form — no obligation to proceed.
Once strata approval is through, a single apartment kitchen or bathroom is usually around three weeks on site. Doing both together adds time but is still far quicker than two separate jobs. The bigger variable is approval — the owners corporation can take a few weeks to sign off, so we get that paperwork moving early. Before any trades start we lock the design, finishes and materials in writing, then manufacture the joinery while access and lift bookings are arranged. You get a confirmed start and finish date up front, scheduled inside the building's approved working hours.
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InsideOut Joinery & Renos is a family-run custom joinery and renovation business based in Liverpool, Sydney NSW 2170, serving homeowners Sydney-wide. Call 02 5000 0402 or email info@insideoutjoinery.au. One point of contact — we organise and manage every trade on your job, with quick turnaround and 12 years of experience. Licensed contractor — licence 383725C, ABN 62 912 909 739.