Home Renovation Cost per sq ft in India 2026

Home renovation in India costs about ₹70 to ₹110 per sq ft for a light refresh, ₹640 to ₹890 per sq ft for a medium renovation and ₹1,150 to ₹1,640 per sq ft for a full gut in 2026, priced line by line for a 2BHK of 900 sq ft carpet area. That is roughly ₹0.65 to ₹1 lakh, ₹5.8 to ₹8 lakh and ₹10.4 to ₹14.8 lakh before a contingency, for a flat or house that is 10 to 25 years old.

About the numbers below: these are market ranges, not quotes. Civil items use CPWD's Delhi Schedule of Rates 2023 (April 2023 Delhi prices, 18 per cent GST included). Painting is from Asian Paints, electrical from NoBroker (updated 1 Jul 2026) and Urban Company, all read 22 Oct 2026; bathroom, kitchen, ceiling and wardrobe lines reuse the sourced figures in MOA's other cost guides. Quantities and tier splits are our assumptions, and we say where.

Renovating is a different job from doing up a new flat, which our room-by-room interior cost guide covers. Here is the extra work, priced, and the order that stops you paying twice.

Home renovation cost per sq ft: three tiers at a glance

	Light refresh	Medium	Full gut
What changes	Paint, switches, small fixes	+ floors over old tiles, both bathrooms, kitchen, partial rewiring	+ floors relaid, full rewiring, doors, wardrobes
2BHK, 900 sq ft, before contingency	about ₹0.65 to 1 lakh	₹5.8 to 8 lakh	₹10.4 to 14.8 lakh
Per sq ft of carpet area	₹70 to 110	₹640 to 890	₹1,150 to 1,640
With a 5 to 10% contingency	₹0.67 to 1.1 lakh	₹6.1 to 8.8 lakh	₹10.9 to 16.3 lakh
Time on site (our guidance)	1 to 2 weeks	6 to 10 weeks	11 to 17 weeks

Bar chart of 2BHK renovation cost per sq ft by tier for a 900 sq ft carpet-area flat: light refresh 70 to 110 rupees, about 0.65 to 1 lakh; medium 640 to 890 rupees, about 5.8 to 8 lakh; full gut 1,150 to 1,640 rupees, about 10.4 to 14.8 lakh. Dashed bars show NoBroker's published tiers: basic 500 to 800, mid-range 1,000 to 1,500 and premium 1,800 to 2,500 rupees per sq ft. — Our three tiers, built line by line, against NoBroker's published tiers. NoBroker does not say what its tiers include; ours leave out windows, loose furniture, appliances and a design fee. Diagram: MOA

NoBroker publishes renovation tiers of ₹500 to ₹800, ₹1,000 to ₹1,500 and ₹1,800 to ₹2,500 per sq ft, and totals of ₹2.5 to ₹12 lakh for 800 sq ft and ₹3 to ₹15 lakh for 1,000 sq ft (NoBroker). It does not say what each tier contains or whether GST is in. Our full gut sits inside its totals; our light tier is far below its basic one because it leaves floors, bathrooms and kitchen alone. Compare scope, not rates.

What renovation includes that a fresh interior does not

A new flat arrives tiled, waterproofed and wired, so its interior quote is mostly woodwork, ceiling and paint. A 10 to 25 year old home needs the shell redone first:

Demolition and debris. CPWD prices dismantling floor tiles laid in mortar at ₹73.40 per m², about ₹7 per sq ft, and taking out a door or window with its frame at ₹367.20 each up to 3 m² (items 15.23.1 and 15.12.1, DSR 2023, Vol. 2). Those rates stack rubble within 50 metres; carting it away is extra.
Re-wiring. New wire, often new conduits, and a new distribution board. The CEA's safety regulations require every installation to be controlled by a residual current device, tripping at no more than 30 milliamperes in a home (regulation 44, CEA Regulations 2023). Check that yours has one.
Re-plumbing. Concealed CPVC costs ₹497.80 a metre at 15 mm in CPWD's schedule, chases included (item 18.8).
Waterproofing every bathroom taken to the slab; our waterproofing guide covers the layers.
Re-flooring, over the old tiles or after removing them.
Doors and windows. CPWD's 35 mm flush door shutter costs ₹2,392.65 per m² with a commercial veneer and ₹3,473.85 with teak veneer (items 9.21.1 and 9.20.1, Vol. 1), about ₹4,500 to ₹6,600 for a 900 x 2100 mm door. We found no window maker that publishes a rate card, so price windows per opening with quotes.

Stacked bar splitting a full-gut 2BHK renovation of about 12.7 lakh rupees: bathrooms 3.62 lakh, flooring removed and relaid 1.23 lakh, full rewiring 0.90 lakh and door shutters 0.22 lakh make up 6.0 lakh or 47 per cent of renovation-only work; kitchen 2.34 lakh, wardrobes 2.27 lakh, painting 1.40 lakh and false ceiling 0.62 lakh make up 6.6 lakh or 53 per cent of interior work. — Almost half of a full-gut budget goes on work a new flat would not need: bathrooms rebuilt from the slab, floors relaid, wiring and doors replaced. Illustrative, using the midpoint of each line. Diagram: MOA

2BHK renovation cost, line by line

The worked example is a 2BHK of 900 sq ft carpet area: about 750 sq ft of rooms and passage, an 80 sq ft kitchen and two bathrooms. Asian Paints gives a 2BHK of 800 to 1,200 sq ft carpet about 2,500 to 3,500 sq ft of paintable wall and ceiling; we use 2,800. Figures in lakh.

Line	How it is priced	Light	Medium	Full gut
Strip-out of floor tiles and doors	CPWD 15.23.1, 15.12.1	None	None	0.07
Flooring, 750 / 830 sq ft	CPWD per m², laid over old tiles / relaid on mortar	Kept	0.95 to 1.03	1.12 to 1.22
Electrical	Labour per board (Urban Company) / ₹40 to 120 per sq ft (NoBroker)	0.03, labour	0.36 to 0.72	0.72 to 1.08
Small plumbing fixes	Labour per tap and basin (Urban Company)	0.01 to 0.02	In bathrooms	In bathrooms
Bathrooms ×2, stripped to slab	Per bathroom, our bathroom cost guide	Kept	1.85 to 2.15	3.44 to 3.79
Kitchen, L-shaped, 64 sq ft of cabinets	Per sq ft of cabinet, plus counter and lines	Kept	1.46 to 1.90	1.92 to 2.75
False ceiling, 250 / 550 sq ft	₹75 to 150 per sq ft of ceiling	None	0.19 to 0.38	0.41 to 0.83
Painting, 2,800 sq ft	Asian Paints 2BHK / CPWD putty, primer, two coats	0.60 to 0.95	0.97 to 1.80	1.00 to 1.80
Door shutters ×4	CPWD 9.21.1 / 9.20.1 per m²	Kept	Kept	0.17 to 0.24
Wardrobes ×2, 126 sq ft of shutter	₹1,200 to 2,400 per sq ft of shutter	Kept	Kept	1.51 to 3.02
Total		0.65 to 1.0	5.8 to 8.0	10.4 to 14.8

Not included: windows, loose furniture, appliances, a TV unit, a design fee and debris carting. Splitting NoBroker's electrical range at ₹80 is our choice.

Painting

Asian Paints prices a 2BHK repaint at ₹35,000 to ₹55,000 in economy paint, ₹60,000 to ₹95,000 in standard emulsion and ₹1 lakh to ₹1.8 lakh for a premium finish, with putty, primer and labour (Asian Paints). CPWD's putty, primer and two coats of premium emulsion add up to ₹372.80 per m², about ₹35 per sq ft (items 13.80, 13.85.3, 13.83.2), or ₹97,000 for our flat.

Flooring: over the old tiles or after removing them

Laying 600 x 600 mm double-charged vitrified tiles on a 20 mm mortar bed costs ₹1,453.65 per m² in CPWD's schedule (item 11.41A.1.1), about ₹135 per sq ft. Over sound old tiles you drop the mortar bed (deduct ₹850.10, item 11.42) and fix with polymer-modified adhesive instead (₹753.25, item 11.43): ₹1,356.80 per m², about ₹126 per sq ft. The real saving is no breaking and no debris.

It only works on a sound floor. ARDEX says the old tiles must have no loose or drummy tiles, with 100 per cent adhesive coverage (ARDEX TB117); LATICRETE lists existing ceramic tile and stone as a substrate for its 335 adhesive (LATICRETE). Our guidance: tap every tile, and expect to trim doors, as the floor rises by a tile plus about 3 mm.

Electrical and plumbing

Urban Company's Bengaluru card lists a switchboard repair or replacement from ₹149 and a fan from ₹99, labour only (Urban Company); switches are extra. NoBroker's ₹40 to ₹120 per sq ft for electrical upgrades gives ₹36,000 to ₹1.08 lakh for 900 sq ft.

Bathrooms, kitchen, ceiling and wardrobes

Bathrooms use our bathroom renovation cost guide in this series: ₹0.92 to ₹1.07 lakh for a budget 5 x 7 ft bathroom stripped to the slab, ₹1.72 to ₹1.89 lakh mid-range, from CPWD rates and maker MRPs. That is more than the ₹40,000 to ₹1.5 lakh per bathroom in our 1BHK and 3BHK guides, which assume a new flat's bathroom is already tiled and waterproofed. The kitchen uses HomeLane's Hyderabad bands of ₹2,200 to ₹2,800 and ₹2,800 to ₹4,000 per sq ft of cabinet plus a granite or quartz counter, as in our modular kitchen price guide. Ceilings use the gypsum range in our false ceiling guide; wardrobes, the ₹1,200 to ₹2,400 per sq ft of shutter in our 3BHK guide.

What a medium or full renovation usually replaces in one go: the floor, the false ceiling with its profile lights, the doors and the wall finishes. Photographed in a Chennai apartment. Image: Dinesh Lunked on Unsplash, Unsplash License

Home interior renovation cost vs our other cost guides

Fresh 2BHK interiors. Our Pune 2BHK cost guide and its Mumbai and Bengaluru companions use ₹1,000 to ₹1,500 per sq ft for an essential interior and ₹1,500 to ₹2,500 for mid. Our full gut overlaps the essential band but buys less woodwork and much more civil work.
Building new. Our construction cost guide puts basic construction of a new house at ₹1,900 to ₹2,300 per sq ft. A full gut keeps the structure but redoes most finishing stages.

Society permission, working hours and debris

Rules differ by state and building, so read your society's registered bye-laws. Maharashtra's model bye-laws are the clearest published example:

The 2014 model needs the committee's written permission for additions or alterations, and the competent authority's for structural changes (bye-law 45, Commissioner for Co-operation, Maharashtra).
A 2026 draft, not yet in force, would free repainting, new flooring and tiles, and like-for-like fittings from permission, but not work affecting waterproofing, common plumbing, structure or façade; the committee would decide within 30 days (draft bye-law 48, Department of Co-operation). A bathroom stripped to the slab touches waterproofing, so ask.
The 2014 model has societies audit buildings aged 15 to 30 years structurally every five years (bye-law 75). Ask for the latest audit.

Working hours. The national Noise Rules bar sound-emitting construction equipment in residential areas from 10 pm to 6 am (rule 5A(3), Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000). Daytime hours, lift use and deposits are each society's call, with no published standard we could find; get them in writing. Our Mumbai 2BHK guide has more on Mumbai societies.

Debris. The BMC's Debris on Call collects up to 500 kg free in Mumbai (BMC). Elsewhere, make removal a line in the quote.

Living elsewhere during the work

Our guidance: stay for a light refresh, moving furniture room by room. Stay through a medium renovation only if the bathrooms are done one at a time and the kitchen is out for a few weeks at most. For a full gut, move out, and budget three to four months of rent, packing and storage.

How long a 2BHK renovation takes, and the order that avoids rework

Allow 3 to 6 weeks for survey, design, quotes and society approval, then about 11 to 17 weeks on site for a full gut. Only the tests and curing are fixed: CPWD's bathroom waterproofing air-cures each coat for 4 hours, then water-cures for 48 (item 22.5), and IS 2065 wants new supply lines absolutely watertight with all taps shut (IS 2065: 1983, clause 14.3).

Timeline of a full 2BHK renovation in eleven steps: survey, design and society permission over 3 to 6 weeks before site work; then strip out, civil repairs, first fix wiring and plumbing, a pipe and circuit test, waterproofing, a ponding test, tiling, false ceiling with putty and primer, carpentry, and final paint with second fix and snag list, about 11 to 17 weeks on site. — The order that avoids rework: services and waterproofing are tested while they are still visible, and carpentry and the last paint coat come at the end. Durations are our guidance. Diagram: MOA

Three rules do most of the work:

Fix the furniture layout before the electrician arrives. Moving points after plaster costs twice.
Nothing is covered until it is tested. Pipes are pressure-tested and photographed; bathrooms pass a ponding test before tiling.
Wet trades before woodwork, last coat of paint at the very end. Dust ruins new shutters, and carpentry scuffs finished walls.

Living room with a curved false ceiling edged in dark wood veneer and recessed downlights, a blue leather sofa with patterned cushions under a window with a white roller blind, four diamond-shaped mirrors on the wall, wood-panelled wall with glass pendant lights and a pale marble-look floor — Ceiling, lighting, wall panelling and flooring are the visible part of a renovation; the rewiring and plumbing behind them decide whether it lasts. Image: Rishi Raj Khare on Unsplash, Unsplash License

Renovating an independent house

Add terrace waterproofing, exterior paint (Asian Paints gives ₹20 to ₹55 per sq ft in Bengaluru) and any structural repair, which needs a structural engineer and, for structural changes, municipal permission. On contracting, see our guide to turnkey, item-rate and labour-rate contracts.

GST on a home renovation

A firm that supplies materials and renovates your home is doing a works contract, which the GST law defines to include renovation, at a general rate of 18 per cent (GST Council). Products you buy yourself carry GST in their MRP. In our table, the CPWD and MRP-based lines, about 40 per cent of the full gut, include GST; the other sources do not say. On a ₹12 lakh quote plus GST, add ₹2.16 lakh. Ask for GST as a separate line.

Home renovation loan

Bank of Baroda's Home Improvement Loan, for example, funds repairs and renovation of an existing house or flat: up to ₹50 lakh, at most 15 years, a 25 per cent margin and a floating repo-linked rate (Bank of Baroda). Check your own bank's current rates.

Home renovation cost calculator

MOA's free home cost calculator estimates building, renovation or interiors for your city. Use it for a first number, then get itemised quotes.

FAQ

What is the home renovation cost per sq ft in India in 2026?

About ₹70 to ₹110 for a light refresh, ₹640 to ₹890 for medium and ₹1,150 to ₹1,640 for a full gut, before contingency.

What is the 2BHK renovation cost?

For 900 sq ft carpet: about ₹0.65 to ₹1 lakh light, ₹5.8 to ₹8 lakh medium and ₹10.4 to ₹14.8 lakh full gut, plus 5 to 10 per cent contingency.

How much does a small renovation cost?

A 2BHK repaint in standard emulsion is ₹60,000 to ₹95,000 (Asian Paints); one budget bathroom stripped to the slab, about ₹0.9 to ₹1.1 lakh.

How much does it cost to do a full home renovation?

About ₹10.4 to ₹14.8 lakh for a 900 sq ft 2BHK, plus windows and contingency, over three to four months.

Do I need society permission to renovate my flat?

Usually, beyond painting and like-for-like fittings. Get permission, deposits and hours in writing.

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