How much does it cost to remodel your kitchen, renovate your bathroom, finish your basement, or add on to your home in Seattle? These seem like straightforward questions, but getting clear answers can be a challenge for three main reasons.
Regional differences
Construction costs vary throughout the country. What a friend tells you they paid to redo their kitchen in Phoenix will not be what you would pay in Seattle. Likewise, the figures you see on home renovation shows often underestimate real-world costs, especially in a high-cost market like ours.
Scope and style matter
Remodeling projects vary greatly in scope and style. A kitchen remodel can range from a cosmetic refresh to a full gut renovation with a new layout and custom cabinetry. As a homeowner, you can do the work yourself, hire a handyman, or work with a full-service design-build firm with a dedicated team and a higher level of service. Each path carries a very different price and a very different experience.
Lack of transparency
Most remodeling companies do not disclose their pricing. At CRD, we began publishing our pricing guides in 2017 to help homeowners get an accurate idea of project costs in Seattle, and we have updated them every year since. The figures below reflect our current published pricing.
The cost to remodel a kitchen in Seattle
Minor kitchen remodels, covering cosmetic updates and appliance swaps, run $50,000 to $75,000 and up. Mid-range kitchen remodels, which can include cabinet refacing, new countertops, and layout tweaks, run $100,000 to $150,000 and up. A full gut renovation with a new layout, custom cabinetry, and major electrical and plumbing work starts around $200,000.
The cost to remodel a bathroom in Seattle
Bathroom pricing depends mostly on size and whether the layout changes. A powder room remodel runs $50,000 to $100,000+. A small bathroom remodel runs $60,000 to $150,000+, while a large bathroom remodel runs $150,000 to $250,000+. A dream, spa-level bathroom can reach $250,000 to $300,000+. Adding an entirely new bathroom starts around $150,000, and a first-floor bathroom addition runs $200,000 to $400,000+.
The cost to finish or remodel a basement in Seattle
A light-touch basement finish with no major structural changes typically runs $100,000 to $200,000, depending on finishes. A mid-sized basement remodel, a full remodel that is not an ADU, typically costs $200,000 to $350,000 and can include a bathroom or kitchenette. A full basement transformation, with a dig-down or house lift resulting in a fully permitted ADU with kitchen and bathroom, starts at $350,000.
The cost to add on to your Seattle home
Bedroom additions run $200,000 to $400,000. Bathroom additions run $200,000 to $250,000, and home office additions run $100,000 to $200,000. Beyond construction itself, plan for structural engineering ($3,000 to $5,000+), a boundary survey ($2,000 to $3,000), and landscaping repair ($2,000 to $20,000 depending on the site).
The cost of a whole-home remodel in Seattle
A whole-home remodel is the most transformative project we do. Instead of living through years of piecemeal updates, you reimagine your entire home at once: how it flows, how it works, and how it feels when you walk in the front door. For many of our clients, the result is the home they thought they would have to move to find, in the neighborhood they already love.
A transformation like that is a significant investment, and we believe you should know what it takes going in. A whole-home remodel that refreshes finishes and systems while keeping your existing layout typically starts around $350,000. Reimagining the layout, with structural changes and new kitchen and bath spaces, typically runs $400,000 to $500,000. And a full top-to-bottom transformation, taken down to the studs and rebuilt, sometimes with an addition, generally starts at $600,000. Clients who make that investment tell us the same thing: it changed the way they live every single day.
From the first design meeting to the final punch-list item, a whole-house remodel in Seattle typically takes about a year, including two to six months of design and several months of Seattle permitting before three to five months of construction. With a licensed architect on staff and nearly 70 whole-home transformations completed over the last 10 years, CRD is uniquely suited to the rigor of a whole-home renovation. Our design-build team guides you through every step, and your fixed price is set before construction begins.
Wondering about the cost to remodel your Seattle home?
If you would like to talk through your remodeling goals, please get in touch. All of our work is custom designed, and your final fixed price depends on the finishes you select, your existing layout, and many other factors. Zeroing in on your number starts with a conversation.
