We appreciate construction and renovation projects can be both exciting and a cause of some worry.  Our core belief centres around making the home building and renovation process as stress free as possible. 

We do this by:

  • Spending the time upfront to ensuring we perfectly understand your vision and desires, and helping you work through your ideas where we can help
  • Ensuring transparency of costs and decisions through the entire life-cycle of your project
  • Operating in a high-integrity way to ensure there are no surprises and you can completely trust the process. 

We are a high value builder that is also very selective about our trades and finishes. We only use Canadian certified CSA products that are sourced from reputable manufacturers and geographic locations. We do not utilize inexpensive, low quality products. And yet, our fees are highly competitive. We keep our costs low by reducing our overhead, and staying a proudly small boutique Canadian custom home builder.

 

STEP 1: CLIENT CONSULTATION

Every project begins with a client consultation.  Understanding your needs and vision could simply not be more critical to us, and we spend the needed time to help flush out your vision together.  You may know exactly what you want, and we will ensure our documented design reflects that.  You may want to brainstorm and design together with our team of Architecture and Interior Design experts – in which case we are very supportive and will create a beautiful design together.  

OPTION 2A:  PROJECT MANAGEMENT

We can project manage your construction project.  This often involves clients paying trades and subcontractors directly, and paying Thomas James Lifestyles Project Management costs only.  We will bring multiple quotes from skilled subcontractors for material spend items that you can choose from as the key decision maker.  We then manage the project schedule, subcontractor work quality and issue resolution to ensure smooth delivery of your project. 

OPTION 2B:  GENERAL CONTRACTING

If you prefer the peace of mind of an all-in budget, you can hire Thomas James Lifestyles and our highly skilled team of architects, tradespeople and designers to manage your project end to end on a fixed billable schedule.