Heritage craftsmanship for the homes you live in.
We are a small Hamilton studio of named craftspeople. Renovations, additions, restoration, and the occasional ground-up build, done in the heritage tradition. 28 years in, and we still answer our own phone.
The work is craft. The firm is a small team of named craftspeople.
Most contracting firms grow until the principals are no longer on site. We have stayed small on purpose. Robert is on every drawing table. Sarah holds every schedule. Marcus runs every framing crew. The people you meet at the kitchen table are the people in your house every day.
We are based in Hamilton and we work between Burlington in the west and Stoney Creek in the east. We build maybe eight to ten projects a year. We turn down more than we take. Most of our clients come from a previous client, and most of them stay with us across two or three projects over a decade.
Four practices, refined over twenty-five years.
We work in four overlapping disciplines. Most projects are somewhere in the middle of two or three.
Renovations
Whole-home renovations and considered remodels for the families who live in them.
Custom builds
Ground-up homes shaped around the way a household actually moves through them.
Additions
Side, rear, and second-storey additions that read as part of the original home.
Restoration
Sensitive restoration of heritage homes, historic millwork, and period detail.
Trades sales are decided by visible past work.
A few recent projects. The full portfolio is here.
A six-step process. Nothing skipped, nothing rushed.
A renovation is six months of decisions before a hammer swings. We have spent years refining the order in which those decisions get made.
Read the full processInitial conversation
60 to 90 minutes, no charge
Scope and budget
Two to four weeks
Design and drawings
Six to twelve weeks for renovations, longer for custom builds
“They treated our 1948 brick bungalow the way we did. With affection, with patience, and with a kind of seriousness about the small things that we have not seen anywhere else.”
Talk to us before you decide what to build.
The first conversation is sixty minutes, no charge, no drawings, no pressure. We want to understand the brief before we start to size the work.