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The Renovation Feed: home renovation ideas, with what they cost

The best renovations of the year, room by room, and what every idea costs. Picked by Jacob.

Terraces on Bourke Street, Surry Hills, in 2026
The shortlistBest NSW renovations 2026: the year's award-winning homesEvery renovation recognised at the 2026 NSW Architecture Awards
Illustration: a finished high-end bathroom with stone-look tiles, a floating vanity and brass tapware
CostsBathroom renovation cost in 2026$8,000 to $35,000+, by budget, size and city
Illustration: a floating timber vanity with an integrated stone basin, a round mirror, brushed brass wall-mounted tapware, pale limewash walls in a bathroom
BathroomsBathroom renovation ideas worth stealing, with what they costSix ideas from the year's best bathrooms, each with its price

By room

Illustration: a bathroom finished in large-format honed marble-look porcelain slabs with minimal grout lines
BathroomsBathroom tile ideas, with what each tile costsSix tile looks, priced per square metre

What it costs in 2026

Illustration: a renovated bathroom in a Perth home with limestone-coloured tiles and a window to a sunny garden
PerthBathroom renovation cost Perth: what WA homeowners pay in 2026The WA average is $15,667: costs by size and budget
Illustration: a tiler's work in progress in a bathroom: half the wall tiled with large-format tiles, spacers and a level on the floor
CostsCost to tile a bathroom, and tiling cost per square metreTiles and tilers, per square metre

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Illustration: a kitchen splashback in the same veined marble slab as the benchtop, running up to a floating shelf
KitchensKitchen splashback ideas, with what each costsTile, glass, stone, steel or a window, priced