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Pieter
Amsterdam, Sep 2026
I’ve been working with Max and the team for a few years, and we did a lot of renovations with them, including an entire house. The service they provide is very good, very professional, always on the work, very clean and very organized. Communication was perfect and everything was okay with appointments. They do charge a lot of money for it, but you do get what you pay for.
Anonymous
Amsterdam, Sep 2026
About two years ago, Reşat renovated a bathroom for me, and I was satisfied. They are nice people, serious, and they handled everything well. Everything was done on time, they work neatly and clean, and it was really good. The price was reasonably good too, cheaper than other quotes I got.
Kavita
Heemstede, Aug 2026
We got a full bathroom remodel done in January after buying our house, and they also painted the inside of the ground floor, the first floor, and the doors, all within a very tight schedule before we had to move in at the beginning of February. When they broke down the tiles and found mold, they were quite nice about it and only charged us for the materials used, then worked around the clock on the weekend to get back on track. They were very professional, very helpful, and easy to follow up with, and even a few weeks later when we had questions, and again two months later when I needed a handyman, they were happy to help. We were very, very happy with their service.
Real price ranges from the jobs our vetted renovators actually do. Prices updated September 2026
How much does a kitchen renovation cost in Amsterdam?
An Amsterdam kitchen runs €14,700 to €31,400 once the city's labour rates are applied, which sit about 15 percent above the national average. National guides quote €8,000 to €25,000, and most of the gap is the units themselves: fitting a kitchen you bought elsewhere, plumbing and electrics included, is €6,000 to €15,000 on its own. So the first question on any quote is whether the kitchen is in the price or not, because the same job can be written either way. Labour on a home older than two years is charged at 9 percent BTW, the cabinets and appliances at 21 percent.
How much does a single-room renovation cost in Amsterdam?
Doing one or two rooms rather than the whole place costs €10,000 to €40,000, and the spread comes almost entirely from how deep you go. A cosmetic refresh is much cheaper: plastering is €14 to €45 per m2, painting a room is €450 to €900, and a new floor laid and levelled is €70 to €150 per m2. Those per m2 rates include the work and standard materials, but not the wiring or plumbing, which is what turns a refresh into a building job. Ask for the quote itemised per element, since a vague all-in figure with no breakdown is where the surprises hide.
How much does a staircase renovation cost in Amsterdam?
Most staircase renovations land between €1,250 and €2,800, with €1,799 about what people actually pay. The usual job is overlay treads fitted straight on top of the existing stairs, so nothing gets broken out: reckon €115 to €150 per tread for HPL or PVC including material and fitting, and €150 to €175 for oak. Amsterdam is where that gets more expensive, because canal houses are known for narrow, steep, turned staircases, and a closed stair with a turn is €2,500 to €4,000 against the €900 to €2,000 a flat with a straight run pays. Ask what is not in the price, since risers, nosings and anti-slip strips are usually added per tread at €5 to €20 each and quietly move the total. If the stair is actually unsound rather than tired, replacing it is a different budget at €7,000 to €15,000.
How much does a strip-out and demolition cost in Amsterdam?
Stripping a place back to the shell is quoted per job, since it depends on volume and on how far the skip sits from the door, and none of our sources put a rate on that labour. What they do price is everything around it: a container and debris removal is €300 to €1,200, an asbestos survey is €300 to €600, and certified removal if asbestos turns up is €1,500 to €8,000. Anything built before 1994 can hide asbestos in floor glue, ceiling panels or the sealant around the bath, and the survey is required before demolition starts. In the Centrum district you also pay the council for the bays your skip and van occupy, €181.30 for up to two weeks, while outside Centrum a simple notification is free.
How much does a bathroom renovation cost in Amsterdam?
An Amsterdam bathroom is €11,800 to €17,700 with the city's labour rates applied, against a national range of €7,500 to €20,000. What you are really choosing is the finish level: functional and basic is €5,000 to €8,000, mid-range €8,000 to €15,000, and natural stone with a freestanding bath is €25,000 to €40,000. Those totals cover labour and materials together, and the tiles and sanitaryware are the part that moves most, so ask for the tile and sanitary budget to be listed as its own line. If the pipework has to move, plumbing is charged separately at €75 to €100 an hour.
How much does a full apartment renovation cost in Amsterdam?
A complete flat renovation usually lands between €40,000 and €90,000, and a typical 80 to 120 m2 Amsterdam apartment with new bathroom, kitchen, wiring and insulation runs €60,000 to €120,000. Those figures cover labour and materials together, and materials alone are roughly 40 to 50 percent of the bill, so a quote that looks cheap is often one that has left the finishes out. Because your flat is more than two years old, the labour part is billed at 9 percent BTW instead of 21 percent, while the materials stay at 21 percent. Keep 10 to 15 percent back as a buffer: lead pipes and undersized fuse boxes in pre-1970 buildings only show up once the walls are open.
How much does splitting or reconfiguring a home cost in Amsterdam?
Reconfiguring a home where the structure, the pipes and the layout all move costs €1,800 to €2,500 per m2, labour and materials together, so €216,000 to €300,000 on a 120 m2 property. Splitting one home into two is a separate permit question that our sources do not price and Amsterdam has its own rules for it, so check with the council before you set a budget. The costs you can plan for are the structural engineer at €500 to €2,000, the omgevingsvergunning at €500 to €2,500, council fees of about 3.8 percent of the build sum, and VvE approval up to €500 in an apartment building. Permits take eight weeks, plus up to six more if the council asks for extra information, and up to twenty six weeks for a listed building.
How much does removing a load-bearing wall cost in Amsterdam?
The opening itself is always quoted per job, because the price turns on the span, what sits above it and how the steel gets into the building, and no source in our set publishes a rate for it. The costs you can pin down are the ones around it: a structural engineer's calculation is €500 to €2,000, the omgevingsvergunning is €500 to €2,500, and in a flat the VvE has to approve the work, up to €500 if you need someone to run that process. For an extension, where the same permits apply, Amsterdam builders quote €2,200 to €2,700 per m2 for the shell and €2,800 to €3,400 per m2 fully finished, labour and materials in both. Get the engineer in before you accept any quote, since a builder pricing a wall without a calculation is guessing.
How much does thermal insulation cost in Amsterdam?
Insulating a whole Amsterdam home is €8,400 to €9,000, and by element it is €15 to €35 per m2 for cavity walls, €20 to €40 for floors and €30 to €60 for the roof, material and fitting included. Roof insulation on its own can cut gas use in an older Dutch house by up to 30 percent, which is the best return of any single upgrade. Amsterdam pays up to €2,500 towards insulation and ventilation and a further €3,000 to €4,500 for going off gas, but you have to apply before the work starts, not after. Do it while the walls or floors are already open, because adding it later to a finished room costs far more than doing it during the renovation.
How much does a whole-house renovation cost in Amsterdam?
A full house renovation runs €800 to €1,500 per m2 for a standard refit, so €80,000 to €150,000 on a typical property, and a mid-range job on a 100 m2 house comes to €90,000 to €140,000. Open up the structure, replace the pipes and change the layout and it climbs to €1,800 to €2,500 per m2, with luxury finishes in a canal house reaching €2,500 per m2. Every one of those rates includes labour and materials together, with materials about 40 to 50 percent of the total, and the labour half costs roughly 15 percent more here than the national average. Two Amsterdam problems can wreck the budget: pre-1970 lead pipes and weak fuse boxes, and foundation repair on wooden piles, which adds €40,000 to €80,000 if a survey says it is needed.
How much does exterior flooring cost in Amsterdam?
Paving is the only outdoor surface our Amsterdam sources price, at €40 to €80 per m2 for the work and standard materials, with a whole garden makeover running €3,000 to €20,000 depending on size and design. Decking, tiled terraces and roof terrace surfaces are not priced anywhere in our set, so treat anything beyond plain paving as quote only and get three of them. Expect the labour part to sit about 15 percent above the national average here, and remember that a courtyard you can only reach by carrying everything through the house costs more to work in than one with street access.
How much does microcement cost per m2 in Amsterdam?
Microcement, sold here as beton cire, is €60 to €120 per m2 fitted on ordinary walls and floors, and most specialist quotes land higher, between €120 and €180 per m2. A bathroom is the expensive one at €120 to €200 per m2, because it is a small wet room and the fixed hours get spread over fewer metres. Now the number that matters: the material on its own is only €36 to €55 per m2, so almost everything you are paying for is the six layers, the drying days and the hand of the person applying them. Anything much under €105 per m2 fitted is worth questioning, since the usual way to hit that price is to skip a coat or the final sealer. The Amsterdam saving is that it goes straight over your existing tiles, so no breaking out, no skip and no permit, and on a home over two years old the labour is 9 percent BTW against 21 percent on the material.
How much does polished concrete cost in Amsterdam?
Polished concrete itself still has no price in any of our sources, so this one is quote only and worth three of them. What we can now price is its closest relative, a poured joint-free floor, at €80 to €195 per m2 laid, with a PU poured floor at €80 to €120 and roughly €120 per m2 as the middle of the market. One sourced detail should shape your budget: unlike microcement, polished concrete needs the existing covering taken out first, which brings demolition, a skip and extra days back into the job. So when you compare two quotes, ask each builder what the levelling, the grinding and the sealing cost, because that is where two numbers for the same floor stop meaning the same thing.
How much does stone cladding cost in Amsterdam?
Stone cladding is not priced anywhere in our sources, so this is quote only and the material choice will drive most of the number. The nearest thing we can price is tiling: ceramic or porcelain laid is €65 to €115 per m2 including labour, and natural stone sits above that on every range our sources give. Floors run €40 to €120 per m2 with stone at the expensive end, and a natural stone bathroom is €25,000 to €40,000 against €12,000 to €20,000 for a standard one. Those are combined labour and material figures, and with stone the material is the larger half, so ask for it as its own line. If the stone goes on an outside wall in a protected streetscape, the facade change needs an omgevingsvergunning at €500 to €2,500.
How much does wall cladding cost in Amsterdam?
Panelled and clad walls still have no rate in our sources, so this stays a quote only job. What we can now price is the joint-free finish plenty of Amsterdam flats choose instead: microcement on a wall is €60 to €120 per m2 fitted, or €120 to €180 from a specialist, and it goes straight over existing tiles. Around that, plastering is €14 to €45 per m2 and a bespoke joinery project €5,000 to €15,000, so panelling in standard sizes sits between the two and made to measure sits at the top. Whichever you pick, check whether battening and making good the wall behind is in the price, because on an old Amsterdam wall it rarely comes free.
How much does a floor replacement cost in Amsterdam?
A new floor is €40 to €120 per m2 for the covering and the work, or €70 to €150 per m2 once levelling the subfloor is included, which in an old Amsterdam house it almost always is. Laminate sits at the bottom of that range and solid parquet or natural stone at the top, so the number is driven by your material choice more than by the fitting. In an apartment a floating acoustic screed adds €2,000 to €6,000, and your VvE will normally want to see it before approving the job. One warning for anything built before 1994: the glue under the old covering can contain asbestos, so budget €300 to €600 for a survey before the floor comes up.
How much does an office renovation cost per m2 in Amsterdam?
Two very different jobs get called an office renovation, so check which one your quote is pricing. Fitting out the inside from a bare shell is about €265 per m2 at budget level, €490 mid-range and €860 for a premium finish, and if the floors, ceilings and services are already there you take 30 to 50 percent off that. A building-level renovation including the shell and the installations is €1,400 to €2,000 per m2, or €2,200 to €3,500 turnkey with everything finished. A worked example gives you the feel: a 150 m2 office refreshed on a budget came to €24,800, or €165 per m2. Amsterdam is the priciest office market in the country, the centre and the Zuidas most of all, and note that the 9 percent home BTW rate does not apply to a commercial job, though as a business you reclaim the BTW anyway.
How much does a shop fit-out cost in Amsterdam?
Retail is the one we still cannot price. No source we have puts a rate on a shop fit-out per m2, so everything below is a commercial office anchor and a real shopfront quote will differ. For scale, fitting out an office from a bare shell is about €265 per m2 at budget level and up to €860 premium, and a building-level job with shell and installations is €1,400 to €2,000 per m2. Amsterdam then adds its own overhead whatever the fit-out costs: labour about 15 percent above the national average, council building fees around 3.8 percent of the build sum, and €181.30 for up to two weeks of parking in the centre for the van and the skip. If the shopfront itself changes you need an omgevingsvergunning at €500 to €2,500, and eight weeks becomes up to twenty six in a protected streetscape.
How much does a whole-building renovation cost in Amsterdam?
Nobody prices a residential building as one job, so the honest answer is that it is quoted per building, and most anchors below are per home. Work upwards from those: €800 to €1,500 per m2 for a standard refit, €1,800 to €2,500 per m2 once structure and services are opened up, and €40,000 to €90,000 for a complete flat, labour and materials in all three. The one true building-level rate we have is commercial, where shell and installations run €1,400 to €2,000 per m2 and a turnkey job €2,200 to €3,500, which is a fair way to sense-check a mixed-use block. Two things scale badly across a whole building here: foundation repair on wooden piles at €40,000 to €80,000, and access, since narrow streets and canal-side addresses push up transport, crane and waste costs. Structural work needs VvE approval and an omgevingsvergunning, and a listed building can wait up to twenty six weeks for that permit.
How much does a facade renovation cost in Amsterdam?
There is no repointing or rendering rate in our Amsterdam sources, so brickwork repair is quote only. Window frames are priced, and they are usually the biggest line: replacing them across a home is €6,900 to €9,400 in Amsterdam, or from €300 per m2 for uPVC and from €350 per m2 for aluminium, both with HR++ glazing and both including fitting. Any change to the facade needs an omgevingsvergunning at €500 to €2,500, and in a protected streetscape or on a listed building eight weeks can become twenty six. Damp coming in through old brickwork is common here, so have that checked before you price the finish, since repairing it afterwards costs €500 to €5,000.
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