Custom builds in Kawartha Lakes.
We build and rebuild across the Kawarthas — Stoney Lake, Buckhorn, Bobcaygeon, and the lakes and townships of cottage country — including our own project at Kasshabog Lake.
The Kawarthas are lake country, and building here is a problem of access and site before it's a problem of design. Getting equipment in, getting services to a build site a long way from the road, working on granite shoreline and shield rock, getting a house to feel like it belonged on the water from day one — that's where most of the brain work goes. Kasshabog and Stoney Lake taught us those lessons on our own jobs. We bring them to yours.
Much of the work up here is teardown-and-rebuild: an older cottage on a lot nobody would give up, taken down to the dirt and rebuilt for year-round use. Same view, same shoreline, new everything. We handle demolition and rebuild as one job, and we plan the access and the season so the lake doesn't cost you a year.
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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