Custom builds in Hastings Highlands.
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.
Four ways we work.
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.
How involved do I have to be?
You make the decisions: the layout, the cabinets, the flooring, the stone. We bring you options and a recommendation, and you make the call. Everything after that is ours to manage. You shouldn't have to run a job site.
How many projects do you take on at once?
A small number each year, on purpose. We would rather build a few homes well than spread ourselves across a dozen. It's worth reaching out early, often a year or more before you plan to break ground.
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