Custom builds in Northumberland.
We build custom homes and estates across Northumberland County — Cobourg, Port Hope, Warkworth, Brighton, and the farmland and lakeshore between — from our yard in Trent Hills.
Northumberland runs from the Lake Ontario shoreline up into the drumlin country and the Oak Ridges Moraine, and the ground changes as you climb. Lakeshore lots near Cobourg and Port Hope come with high water tables, mature trees, and established neighbours who'd rather not watch a bin sit at the curb for a season. The farmland and estate parcels inland give room for a fuller build, but reward a design that frames the rolling grade rather than fighting it. We read the site first.
A lot of Northumberland building is people leaving the city for a property they mean to stay on, and they care as much about how the work is run as the result. Our own equipment and our own trucks let us work an established lot without turning it into a construction zone for a year. Being the family whose name is on the work — an hour from Toronto, rooted here since 1993 — is the accountability these owners are after.
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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