About Craft & Home

A reference resource for DIY home renovation in Canada.

Last updated: May 2026

Craft & Home publishes practical guides for common interior renovation tasks in Canadian homes. The focus is on work that homeowners with moderate DIY experience can undertake themselves: flooring installation, drywall repair and patching, and bathroom tile updates.

Articles address the specific conditions relevant to Canadian construction — climate zone variations, pre-1985 asbestos concerns, provincial permit thresholds and the building materials commonly found in Canadian housing stock built across different decades.

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Sources and accuracy

Content draws on publicly available guidance from federal and provincial sources including Natural Resources Canada, provincial building departments, and the National Building Code of Canada. No proprietary or confidential information is reproduced. Where permit thresholds or technical requirements vary between municipalities, that variability is noted explicitly.

The content is not professional engineering or architectural advice. Specific structural, electrical or plumbing decisions should be reviewed with a licensed contractor or building official in your municipality.

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