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Custom Home Case Studies
Modern Contemporary House — Mississauga, ON
The Brief
The client wanted a fully modern home built around their family's lifestyle. Because the client's elderly parents would be living in the home, the main floor needed its own primary bedroom with ensuite and laundry — a design suited to multi-generational living. The brief also called for an open-concept main floor and a modern, elaborate entertainment area in the basement.
The Challenge
The client wanted the home completed in a record one-year timeline — an aggressive target for a fully custom build with the scope this project required. Partway through construction, the client also ran into financial constraints and needed to reduce the remaining construction budget without giving up on the vision for the home.
How We Delivered
To hold the one-year target, we heated all trades through the winter months so work never had to pause for weather, and ran multiple trades on overlapping schedules rather than in strict sequence. The home was delivered in approximately one year and one month — within weeks of the original goal. When the client's budget tightened, we worked with them to identify specific items that could be deferred and completed at a later stage, without compromising occupancy, comfort, livability, or the overall intent of building a luxury custom home.
The Outcome
The client moved into a home that delivered on the full brief — multi-generational main-floor living, an open-concept layout, and an elaborate basement entertainment space — on a schedule most builders would have found difficult to hold, while staying financially workable through a mid-project budget change.
Modern Transitional House — Burlington, ON
The Brief
The client wanted a full custom-built modern transitional home, designed around their own requirements and lifestyle from the ground up.
The Challenge
This project landed squarely in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — from permit application through to construction. Getting the building permit approved was the first major obstacle: municipal offices were operating on skeleton staff, officers were largely unreachable, and it took sustained follow-up just to keep the application moving. The permit ultimately took about three months longer than expected. Construction brought its own pandemic-era obstacles: strict on-site distancing requirements, material shortages, and acute labour shortages across the industry.
How We Delivered
Despite the permit delay and the operating conditions of the time, construction itself was completed on schedule — one year and four months from start to finish. Holding that schedule took hands-on presence on-site on an almost daily basis to keep trades coordinated through a period when supply chains and labour were unpredictable week to week.
The Outcome
It was a strange, unforeseen time, but we pulled it off. The client was very supportive, and together we hit the finish line with flying colours.
Currently in Progress: Modern Home — Mineola East, Mississauga, ON
The Brief
The client purchased a teardown property from a previous owner who had already engaged an architect and completed the survey and most of the design drawings for a new build. The client asked us to continue with that same architect and build on the survey work already done. The brief grew more specific from there: about 1,000 additional square feet of living space beyond what the property's current zoning bylaw permits, a circular driveway, and particular rooms — including the master bedroom and kitchen — oriented in specific directions to align with the client's cultural beliefs. An existing inground concrete pool in the backyard will stay in place and be renovated with new finishing.
Where Things Stand
After several rounds of meetings with the architect, the design drawings are complete. The architect is now moving on to permit drawings, while structural and mechanical engineers prepare their own drawings ahead of the building permit application. Because the project asks for more floor area than zoning currently allows, and a circular driveway the City generally does not favour, we'll be filing an application to the Committee of Adjustment for minor variance alongside the permit application.
A large tree that stood in the path of construction has already been removed under a City tree removal permit. While the permit and variance applications are underway, we're also carrying out a geotechnical survey — something we treat as essential on every project, whether or not it's mandated — and having electrical drawings prepared. The remaining step before construction can begin is for the client to issue an eviction notice to the current tenant. We expect the building permit within the next four to five months.