Renovation concepts

The one mode allowed to move a wall — and it tells you it did

For a renovation, the alteration is the whole point. So this mode doesn’t escape the check — it inverts it. Walls, openings, layouts, finishes and built-ins may change, and the verifier writes a list of exactly what changed instead of refusing it.

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Free to try. No card · every render checked against your photo · the label is burnt in.

An open-plan room with a wood kitchen island, oak floors and a concrete ceiling A renovation concept of the same room with marble floors, a fireplace wall and built-in shelving — labelled RENOVATION CONCEPT in the image OriginalRenovation concept

Why this doesn’t undermine everything else

Its own label, its own asset

Concepts carry a burnt-in RENOVATION CONCEPT pill drawn from a separate asset — no setting can put the words “virtually staged” on a concept render.

A manifest, not a refusal

The same vision pass runs. Instead of failing structural change it inventories it, so you get a written list of what the concept moved.

Hard-blocked from listings

Concepts can never appear on a buyer page, in a tour film, in a reveal clip, in a swap or in the MLS archive. That separation is code, not policy.

Room Check runs on every image — including yours

Every render is compared against the original photograph before it publishes. Walls, windows, floors and built-ins must survive, or the render is thrown away and re-run. On a real Halifax listing it caught a deleted staircase and an erased reception desk. See the three we refused →

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Questions

Can I put a renovation concept on the MLS?

Not through us, and you shouldn’t anywhere. A concept shows a house that does not exist yet. It is blocked from every listing surface we produce, and the label is burnt into the image so it can’t be quietly repurposed.

How is this different from restyling?

Restyle changes only furniture and decor, and the architecture must survive the check. A concept may change walls, openings, finishes and built-ins — and hands you the list of what it changed.

What does it cost?

Your first property is free — every room staged in your chosen style, watermarked, no card. One listing with clean full-resolution files is $19 CAD, no subscription. Pro is $29 CAD/month at the founding price (about US$21; it becomes $49) for five listings a month with every room in all six styles, or $199 CAD/year.