Custom Home Builder in Hastings Highlands
Begin a conversation →Custom homes, carried from the first walk of the land to the keys.
We build custom homes, cottages, and shops across the Hastings Highlands — Bancroft, Maynooth, and the lakes and bush of the northern county — where the ground is rugged and the sites are remote.
The Highlands are rock and lake and bush, and building here is honest work: shallow shield rock that changes every excavation, remote sites a long way from services, winters that set the schedule whether you like it or not. Our family has always worked this country, and the sitework — access, blasting where it's needed, footings on rock, power and water to a site off the grid of town — is exactly the part we came up doing.
The builds up here are usually a primary residence or a serious four-season place on a lake, often paired with a shop, because a rural Highlands property has to be self-sufficient. We plan for the remoteness and the season up front, carry the whole job ourselves rather than waiting on subcontractors who won't drive this far, and build it to stand up to the climate for fifty years.
Custom Homes in Hastings Highlands.
A custom home is a thousand decisions. Our designer sits down with you and gets the house on paper, then it goes back and forth until it's right. Once the design is settled we pull the permit and price the build off real drawings instead of a guess. That's the order it has to happen in. Most of the projects we hear about went wrong long before anyone broke ground.
Then we build it. Excavation and footings first, because that's the part our family has been doing since 1993 and the part we get right before anything else. Then framing, mechanical, finishes, and every conversation in between about cabinets and floors and stone. A house between four and eight thousand square feet takes about a year.
You aren't hiring a company. You're hiring us, and the network behind us. Two of every trade in this region, most of it built over twenty years or handed down from our dad. When something comes up on site, it gets solved that day.
The same two brothers, north into the Highlands from our Trent Hills yard.
- A Trent Hills family in the trade since 1993 — foundations first, whole homes now
- One family carries the whole build. No handoffs.
- Two of every trade behind the build, so problems get solved same-day
How long does a custom home take, start to finish?
Design and permits first, then about a year of build for a house between four and eight thousand square feet. Bigger takes longer. We'd rather give you the honest range than a date we'd have to walk back.
What size of home do you build?
Mostly new custom homes between four and eight thousand square feet, built on your land from the foundation up. That's the work we specialize in.
Why choose you over a larger builder?
The network behind us. We work with two of every trade in this region, and most of those relationships were built over twenty years or passed down from our dad and mentors with fifty years in the business. When a problem comes up on your site, it gets solved that day, not next week. You aren't hiring one builder. You're hiring that network.
Will the budget I start with be the budget I finish with?
Closer than you may be used to, because we don't price your house from a guess. We price it from finished drawings, after the design is settled and the permit is pulled. If a material or a site condition changes the number, you hear about it that week, not at the end of the job.
Do we need an architect, or do you provide the design?
We work with our own designer. She spends a day with you on what you want, then brings you plans and revises them with you until they're right. If you already have an architect or finished plans, we're glad to build to them.
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