Custom builds in Peterborough.
Custom homes, estates, and renovations across rural Peterborough County — the townships, lakes, and farmland around the city — managed and built from Trent Hills.
Rural Peterborough runs from the farmland south of the city up into the Kawartha lakes and the edge of the shield, and the building follows the ground: estate and farm parcels with room for a house and outbuildings on the flats, lake and bush lots with access and rock to solve as you go north. We've worked the whole range, and knowing which lot hands you which problem before you buy is part of what we bring.
The owners here are building the home they intend to keep — a country residence, a multi-structure property, a rebuild on land that's been in the family. The build runs the way all of ours do: two brothers carrying it start to finish, a written schedule, the sitework done right by people who started in concrete. Close enough to the city to be convenient, rural enough to be worth doing carefully.
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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