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Mason&Co
A craftsman's hands on a worktable, finishing a piece of millwork.
Who we are

A small team of named craftspeople.

Six people. Most of them have been with us for longer than a decade. The people you meet at the kitchen table are the people in your house every day.

Our story

Founded in 1998 on a simple commitment.

Robert Mason started the firm in 1998with one rule: every project gets the principal’s name on it, and the principal is on every site. 28 years and 5 colleagues later, the rule still holds. Sarah joined in 2002 and made the practice work as a business. Marcus, Elena, David, and Annika joined over the years that followed. Together we cover the disciplines a heritage-craft practice needs: design, project management, framing, millwork, site supervision, and heritage coordination.

We have stayed small on purpose. We build maybe eight to ten projects a year, and we know all of them by name. If you call the studio, one of us answers.

Robert Mason, Principal, founder

Robert Mason

27 years with us
Principal, founder

Robert founded the firm in 1998 after fifteen years on residential crews across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. He works the design table with every client and visits every site at least weekly. He is a Red Seal carpenter and a member of the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Carpentry, design
Sarah Mason, Principal, project director

Sarah Mason

23 years with us
Principal, project director

Sarah joined Robert in 2002 and runs every project from the moment a contract is signed. She holds the schedule, the budget, and the trade relationships. Most of our clients spend more time on the phone with Sarah than with anyone else on our team, and most of them tell us afterward that this was the part they most underestimated.

Project management
Marcus Everly, Lead carpenter

Marcus Everly

16 years with us
Lead carpenter

Marcus has been with us since 2009. He runs the framing crew on every custom build and most of the additions. Trained under his father in the timber-frame tradition, he is the person we call when a job involves heritage joinery or any framing detail that has to last a hundred years.

Lead carpenter, timber framing
Elena Vargas, Millwork lead

Elena Vargas

10 years with us
Millwork lead

Elena runs our millwork shop from a converted warehouse in north Hamilton. Cabinetry, built-ins, custom mouldings to original profiles for restoration work. She trained at the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and has been with us since 2015.

Millwork, cabinetry
David Okafor, Site superintendent

David Okafor

8 years with us
Site superintendent

David runs the day-to-day on every active site. He started with us in 2017 as an apprentice and earned his Red Seal in 2021. Clients see him most days during a build; he is the face of every project for everyone living in the house.

Site supervision
Annika Larsen, Heritage and design coordinator

Annika Larsen

5 years with us
Heritage and design coordinator

Annika joined us in 2020 from a Toronto heritage architecture practice. She liaises with conservation district officers, sources period materials, and shepherds restoration drawings through municipal review. If your house is older than 1950, you will spend a lot of time with Annika.

Heritage coordination
Visit the studio

Meet the team in person.

We keep an open studio in downtown Hamilton, Tuesday through Thursday by appointment. Come and see the millwork shop, walk through finished samples, and sit at the design table with us before you commit to anything.

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