OAKVILLE CUSTOM HOME BUILDER
Start with a Vision
Since 2005 clients from Oakville have been relying on ALBO Homes for their custom home builder projects. We have been top selected builder because of our expertise in design and build of modern custom homes as well as customer service.
Free Architectural Drawings when Building with ALBO HOMES
CUSTOM HOME PROJECTS
We specialize in Modern and Traditional custom homes in Oakville as well as other major cities in GTA. Visit our gallery for more images of completed and ongoing custom home and addition projects.
“Start with a Consultation. Building New Home should not be complicated.”
Building Family Homes
It begins with understanding your vision
Building your custom home may be more difficult than you originally expect it to be. Even with help of designer home owners will be making at least 50 decisions on house finishing details. ALBO Homes will take time to understand the idea of house you want to build before even discussing costs and timelines. Clear vision of exact house as you see it will make the building process easier for us.
Variation of finishes
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Home Design and Rendering
Before any construction starts ALBO custom home builders will makes sure to have all details confirmed with home owner. To propyl start design and build project in Oakville, we will make 3d rendering of every detail throughout your house inside and outside. This will help eliminate possible mistakes in physical work and ordering proper materials for your new house.
The first set of drawing our designers will prepare are going to be exterior format of the house with floor plan layout for all rooms, bathrooms, kitchen and other rooms. For kitchen and bathroom, our team will prepare 3d drawings that will include colors, type of materials and specific positioning of items with design components.
Custom Home Building Process
Initial Consultation with Client
At our first meeting you will meet our project manager, who will go with your through questions on describing your new custom home project. ALBO Homes representative will give you introductory package with steps you should expect in the process of new home construction. Further on we can discuss details on costs and timelines for specific work.
Starting with Proposal for Design Services
Visualization of your design and build project starts with ALBO custom home builders confirming your foot print and layout of each room in the house. Afterwards designers will draft 3d plans of your house from outside to confirm appearance that you prefer. Overall style inside will be reflective image of your imagination with designer’s touches from our in-house designer team.
Architectural and Mechanical Drawings towards Permit
Before any construction takes place there is a set of drawings that has to be created by architects and engineers. These drawings are submitted to the city for new custom home builder to be allowed work based on all specs architects have put in. Architectural and engineering drawings are used as guidelines throughout entire process of project. ALBO Homes will submit all necessary documents for your new home.
Selecting Finishes and Adjusting Budget
Each step of the work is calculated based on materials home owners select. One of the ways to budget entire process is to tell your custom home builders in Oakville your expected overall budget and ALBO Homes will be able to break down applicable materials to the style you wish to have in your custom modern home. Ask our representative for your options in terms of materials and pricing.
Agreement for Building with ALBO Homes
Management of Home Construction
Constructing a house takes knowledge and experience. ALBO Homes has been in field of building new custom homes for many years in Oakville region. We are fully insured and have Tarion licensing, which is absolutely necessary for building new homes in Ontario. Home owners should not be tricked by non-registered companies with low estimated cost for construction of the new modern house.
Inspections and Final Walk Through
Constructing a house takes knowledge and experience. ALBO Homes has been in field of building new custom homes for many years in Oakville region. We are fully insured and have Tarion licensing, which is absolutely necessary for building new homes in Ontario. Home owners should not be tricked by non-registered companies with low estimated cost for construction of the new modern house.
When custom home project comes to the final stage, we would ask home owners to walk throughout the house for marking all deficiencies. ALBO builders will note all raised concerns and will take care of it by fixing problems within a week. Your last payment for the custom home build will be made to your builders at this stage with fast fixes that you have concerns about at your new home.
Style of Neighbourhood
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Traditional Homes
Other specialty of our designers and construction crew is to replicate already existing style for the entire neighbourhood. Be it high pitch roofs with cedar shingles or houses with large columns at the front we can make similar design and stay within the trend. Oakville represents rural area with quitter roads and large lots. Some of our clients want to compliment the feeling of outside city life and design home that with looks that are more traditional.
From the first day our designers can suggest ideas and start working on interior as well as exterior plan. ALBO Homes has many suggestions and premade ideas that can surely follow your priorities or be adjusted on request. There is nothing more exciting than getting right architecture of the house from the first go and having client approve it immediately
Now Popular in Oakville
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Modern Homes
The expansion of GTA continues with rich neighbourhoods of Oakville properties. For some reason more and more home buyers tend to purchase larger lands and hire custom home builders in Oakville. ALBO Homes are proud to be one of the top companies to expand and fulfil the need of creative designed homes that stand out with modern features. Larger windows and big doors allow new homes to have tons of natural light and amazing view of green backyards with tall trees.
We suggest not to experiment trying to manage large projects without professional and experienced builder. Our team has been mastering similar projects for many years and we continue to learn as new options come out on market every day. Let ALBO Homes design and construct modern house and show you what we are capable of. Check out our portfolio for exterior and interior examples that you may like.
Exploring the Possibilities
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Luxury Homes
Home construction projects come in all shapes and forms possible. Some clients have very limited budget and want to build something simple, while others like expensive finishes and materials that are not seen on regular store shelves. This is where we step in as trusted custom home builder in Oakville and years of experience in luxury constructions. Careful planning and outsourcing of special materials is extremely important to handle.
We have connection and fast shipping strategies from Europe and Asia. It may take slightly longer than local purchases, but not everything is located around Oakville suppliers. Whatever comes to your mind for implementations for luxury home is doable by our professionals. Contact our team for more accurate estimate and budgeting ideas around high end homes.
Building with Experts in Oakville
Building your new house requires team of professional constantly working with home owner on construction details throughout the job. For most of the people home construction is one of the biggest projects for the entire life and you should trust only companies that can be trusted. With perfect record in claims and constant award winning streak ALBO Homes will work with our clients on all types of home with different levels of complexity.
Types of Homes
Initial Consultation with client
ALBO Builders can help you to build your dream home in whatever style you prefer. If you’re a first- time homeowner you may start your property journey with a modest home that requires little maintenance. Perhaps you’re in the market for a luxury home with all the modern conveniences, boasting energy efficient and environmentally friendly features. ALBO can design and construct any type and style of new home in Toronto.
The experts at ALBO home builders have years of combined experience and they can help you choose the custom home to suit your lifestyle no matter what your personal tastes or budget. We are creative and can help you design customized house to include the architectural features that you’d prefer, combining materials and features, so that your home is as individual as your family.
Initial Consultation with client
ALBO Custom Builders can help you to build a home on a moderate budget and match the style of other homes in Toronto neighbourhoods that represent specific traditional look. Every homeowner has to start somewhere and every man’s home is his castle. Our expert home designers can help you to choose the best styles and designs that will comply with your budget. We may even assist you with ideas you would, not yourself have imagined. Custom home builders Toronto can help you to design a home that can be extended in the future when you have more equity on your property and can consider expansion. Don’t hold off on your dreams. Start with a traditional type of custom home to suit your budget. Save on rent and expand your home as your family grows.
Average cost of building custom traditional home starts from $250 per square foot. Time to build such home is shorter than other types of homes due to simplest designs, availability of finishes from local suppliers and installation time on products.
Initial Consultation with client
Modern homes tend to minimalism, airy and open with plenty of light streaming through large windows. The living areas are typically open plan and the finishes are often light and bright requiring little maintenance. It cannot be mistaken with any other types of custom homes with newer designs. The interiors tend to have bare floors and boast simplistic lines. The modern trend is also to use environmentally friendly construction methods. The finishes tend to contain modern elements, and the whole is one of convenient and easy living with no clutter and a few tastefully chosen pieces. Extraordinary lighting inside and outside of the house underlines special features and makes the project unique. These types of new construction will defiantly make you stand out from everything else in the neighbourhood.
For new construction of modern homes our custom home builders Toronto start budgeting at around $300 per square foot. Modern style houses have large windows that can easily increase overall cost of the house. Please not that all builders calculate landscaping as extra cost to overall construction of your home.
There are many styles of classic custom homes to choose from. This style of home tends to be in the more average moods and the architectural styles can differ substantially. They are warm, welcoming homes containing traditional wood, stone or brick. They have pitched roofs and they are fronted by welcoming verandas. They usually have big bedrooms and kitchens, and the living rooms will often surround a large welcoming fireplace. You can see new constructions of classic homes on average Toronto lots that can easily fit 4 bedroom homes with garage. West Etobicoke and North York are more popular places for classic homes. Ask ALBO Homes representative for examples and images of classic homes to understand more and get closer to your preference of finishes.
The costs for classic homes are relatively moderate. Usually home owners will not see 10 foot high ceilings and expensive finishes that increase the costs of construction. Our benchmark for classic homes in Toronto starts with $250 per square foot and can go higher with different size and complexity. Tight spaces and uncomfortably close neighbour homes may require shoring systems.
Muskoka cottages are very popular these days for Torontonians. Distant areas are hard to build on with forestry, hard soil and steep rocks. Most of land do not have water and drain connections; therefore the procedure to build a cottage is different from what you would normally see in city of Toronto. We have recently started providing services of custom cottage builds in Ontario for our clients and will be happy to price your next project. Your home should reflect your style and ALBO builders will collaborate with you to ensure that your type of custom home does is exactly what you desire. Expensive lots provide privacy and waterfront for your family, but it comes with difficulty of delivering materials and building cottage in remote places.
ALBO Homes does not build regular small cottages with 2-3 bedrooms that you can see all over Muskoka. The specialty of our Toronto custom home builders are luxury cottages and log homes that stand out and look like modern resort in the wilderness of Ontario. The costs start at $280 per square foot.
OUR WORK FROM CLIENTS’ VIEW
FAQs
After initial deposit is made, each step of the job is separated and labour paid upon completion. Materials are purchased from suppliers and deposit is required. For example: before starting framing, costs are provided and client selects preferred option. Lumber is ordered from supplier right away. Framing stage is completed and all expenses are shown to the client, payment for this stage is required to start next stage of the job.
In most projects we require 10% and it is kept until the very end of the project. The last step of the job is walk through for small touch ups and deficiencies. That is when substantial completion is announced and documents are signed for warranty. Each step in construction is different, but most of the time purchasing materials from supplier is required.
Before preparing drawings for your new custom house, you may want to know the bylaws and limitations on the construction. Usually by doing the survey home owners will get exact boundaries of the lot and from the city you can find out height and size limitations of the building on your specific lot. Our in-house architect can do a quick research to understand maximum size of new building without going to Committee of Adjustments.
There is no simple math equation for how much custom home would cost. Ballpark estimating can be done by square footage, from previous similar properties constructed, but it may have up to 20% error. Average custom homes start from $320 per square foot and can go as high as $500 or even more. Preparing final quotation for custom home requires completed drawings with scope of work and exact finishing materials. Even than the cost errors may be up to 5% due to prices of materials changing on the market.
Before any construction begins, homeowner or builder should have approved permits from the city to build the house. Technically to begin we need what we call a builder package. The package will include Building permit, Plumbing Permit, HVAC permit, Elevation drawings and floor plan. Prior to starting any drawing, architects require property survey and sometimes arborist report.
Once all the paperwork is ready for the work, construction of the house starts. Time to build depends on size of the project and complexity. Average complexity house of 3000 square feet can be constructed in 9-10 month. Obviously there can be complications with soil stability, weather and city inspection delays. More detailed estimate of timeline can be given when drawings are completed.
The worst possible decision home owner can make is to hire a builder that is not insured and does not have Tarion warranty. First of all it is illegal to construct new home without Tarion warranty and insurance coverage. If home owner is caught building new home without proper documentation, the city may charge tens of thousands dollars, jobsite shutdown and ever redoing steps of the building process that require proper inspection.
If you currently have a house and planning to renovate it, you may have difficulties adding bathroom, ceiling height, relocating kitchen or other structural changes. While it may be cheaper, renovation will not have complete new house feel that will be built with exact layout you wanted. Custom home build is more expensive than renovation, but it benefits home owners due to lower maintenance fees and any possible floorplan/layout.
Our home building process is fully transparent to all clients. Development of design and architectural drawings in-house allows us to suggest ideas and control budget. By using ALBO management software, you are able to see exactly how the process is progressing step by step with details and direct notifications to your phone. Also we show all costs throughout the project, letting customer see exactly how much money is spent on specific items.
This is not a straight answer, but it all comes down to reputation of the builder, similar jobs, how they operate and what services are included in the home building process. It is one of the biggest financial investments you go through, so the builder company has to be well trusted and prepared for the taking on large projects. Do not simply go for cheapest builder, because you may pay more at the end to redo your home.
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