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Disability Accessible Luxury Custom Homes in Toronto

Disability often bars people from experiencing the things others take for granted each day. It’s not just theme parks and public events that cause problems for those with accessibility needs. Even something as fundamental as housing can be a real problem. But, it shouldn’t be! Buying a new home should mean getting a space that’s made for you, with all of your accessibility needs accounted for. And, you can’t get higher quality than disability accessible custom homes from Heidan Construction.

Wheelchair Accessible Kitchen

The average kitchen is absolutely not for someone with a wheelchair. The space is too narrow to easily maneuver a wheelchair in, the counters are too high, and so are the upper cabinets. Making a kitchen wheelchair accessible is a thoughtful task. You can’t just make the space more open for maneuverability; you have to look at everything through a new lens. Our team at Heidan Construction can do that to ensure our clients get exactly the space they need. That means a kitchen that’s both functional and enjoyable to use on a daily basis.

Mobility Sensitive Bathroom Design

There’s more to mobility accessibility than just wheelchairs. Some people use walkers or rollators. Others don’t use mobility aids in their house and would prefer a house that is the accommodation. For that reason, mobility sensitive bathroom design is a must have for any accessible custom homes.

Showers should have benches or enough space for a shower chair. Showers and tubs alike should have handrails to allow safe entering and exiting. Likewise, toilets should have a railing beside them to assist with transferring from another support or to assist with getting up again. No matter what kind of accessibility aid you need built into your bathroom, we can do it.

Accessible Exits

Something that is often taken for granted by abled people is their access to accessible emergency exits. How many different kinds of emergency exits can you think of right off the bat? Probably not many. Most of them involve climbing out of a window, using a ladder, or descending exterior stairs. Can you guess what group of people this won’t work for?

When designing your house to be accessible to all of your needs, that includes your safety needs. Adding additional exterior exits to your home, outfitted with ramps, can vastly improve your safety in the event of a fire or other emergency. We aim to keep you just as safe as any other homeowner, in ways that are often neglected during the home design process.

Comfortable Outdoor Spaces

Finally, with a nod to comfort, let’s discuss outdoor spaces – an area often ignored for people with disabilities. Comfortable outdoor spaces may include a patio, deck, or even a garden or pool. These spaces may need additional accommodations added to them, however. If you want to enjoy going outside but find yourself constantly prevented from enjoying your time out there due to society’s continual lack of accommodation, have a discussion with us and let us come up with some new ways to make your backyard a safe haven for you. We look forward to the challenge of personalizing your home exterior’s accessibility.

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Improve Mental Health with Color Psychology in Interior Design

Did you know the colors in your environment have a considerable impact on your state of mind? It’s true! Our brains hold associations for every color you can think of. What’s cool about that is that you can harness that associative power to trick your brain into doing what you need it to. Now let’s talk about a few ways you can use the power of color psychology in interior design.

Fight Depression

Have you ever found a specific room depressing to be in? What was it that made it feel that way? Were the walls painted blue or a color you dislike? Was the room messy or poorly lit? All of these things can impact the way you receive a room. Painting a room with a bright color that you like can be a great first step to preventing this. Of course, it also helps to ensure the lights are bright, the window is uncovered, and the room is clean – but those steps may be for another day.

The color blue has been found to encourage sadness and depression in many people. While this may not be universal, it is a pattern. On the other hand, colors like yellow, orange, and green have the opposite effect. Yellow and orange are bright, energizing colors. Green is a calm, natural color. Depending on what you’re after, any of these may be better alternatives .

Keep Motivated

Want to make getting to work in your home gym a bit easier? Paint the walls! Nothing is less motivating than going to work out in a white-walled home gym. White is such a boring, blank, unmotivating color. Instead, use the aforementioned yellow or orange to energize yourself!

In the wrong setting, orange – or even red – walls could cause anxiety or irritation. However, according to color psychology, these are the perfect color for ramping up energy in your brain and body alike. Something about the heat in these colors just screams, “Go! Go! Go! You can do this!!”

Remain Productive

Trying to keep your mind focused while working? You guessed it: there’s a color for that too. Keeping productive is easier to do with yellow or purple walls. Specifically, a lilac color would be ideal. This pinky purple color feels active, but calm, allowing you to hone in on your work with laser focus. However, if it’s not for you, a rich yellow might do the trick. Just be careful not to go to far in the orange direction, or your yellow might activate the anxious parts of your brain and leave you stressed and overthinking things.

Calm Your Nerves

Want your custom living room to provide you with relaxation in the evening? Or are you looking to calm down before bed? Color psychology say calming colors are the ones found most often in the natural world: green and brown. These colors feel cozy and earthy – like you’re one with nature. Our brains feel most at home with them, as they’re colors we can ignore. They don’t jump out at us like bright oranges or purples do. So, curl up under a blanket and let your gentle, brown walls soothe you to sleep.

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Modern Custom Medical Office Designs

Starting your own medical practice is an amazing accomplishment! Don’t do yourself the disservice of taking your first steps into independent practice with an old rental office. Instead, leap feet first into owning a high quality, modern, custom medical office. Sure, a practiced doctor can make do with almost any building. But… should you have to? Heidan Construction can give you an office space that pulls its own weight. Here’s what you have to look forward to.

Easy, Abundant Storage

Old medical office buildings are often not prepared for the amount of client traffic we experience in the modern year. Because practices used to be smaller, their storage is often not sufficient. This is also due to the huge increase in instruments and machines used today.

Having a modern, custom medical office built means having the right amount of storage right away. In fact, you should always opt for more than enough storage. As your business expands, your supplies will too. A medical office designed by Heidan Construction will provide you more than enough space to grow and flourish.

Spacious Exam Rooms

Another pitfall of old medical office buildings is that they’re not very spacious. Using less space may have been more practical 40 years ago, but these days it’s stifling. We have too much equipment to fit into one exam room to settle for something cramped.

Not only is more space more practical, it’s also better psychologically. Even those without claustrophobia can feel closed in when waiting for a doctor in a small exam room. A tense and stressful experience is made ten times worse. Give your patients room to breathe with more spacious exam rooms.

Comfortable Waiting Room

Starting from scratch also means getting a waiting room that’s designed for more than utility. Comfort is a large part of retaining clientele and ensuring a positive experience. Word of mouth referrals are more likely when a patient has an exceptional experience. You don’t have to have an overwhelmingly large practice to aim high. Quality over quantity.

Gorgeous Medical Office Exterior

Many old medical practices held their offices in buildings that, today, look more like houses than clinics. Or, on the more extreme side, the clinics look so, well, clinical, that people feel uneasy before even entering the building.

Heidan Construction specializes in modern, luxury design. We can make your office feel attractive and comfortable right from the get-go with a gorgeous office exterior. First impressions are everything. If patients get a positive feeling on their way inside, it sets the stage for a positive visit.

Custom Medical Office Designs

If you want to run a successful medical practice, start with something made just for you. Having everything you need in just the way you like it can truly pave the way to success. Let us know if you have questions, would like a quote, or are interested in discussing modern, custom medical office designs. We really look forward to meeting you!

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Make a Statement with Artistic Luxury Building Design

Building Design isn’t just about making a shelter from the outdoors. In many cases, it’s about designing a functional work of art. It’s about surpassing the visual and practical expectations of its occupants. Heidan Construction specializes in luxury building design that catches the eye and appreciation of all the people who use them. If you want to make a statement – if you want to own an artistic luxury building – we’re the team to help you achieve that.

Eye-Catching Colors

Whether you’re looking for a residential building or a commercial one, there’s something that can’t be overlooked: color. Especially these days, there is a huge overuse of white in modern and contemporary design. While white is a very important base tone, color is what really makes a design pop. 

Artistic building design comes to life with the introduction of color. Some of the best ways you can make your building design artistic and eye-catching are by including focus colors.

Some great examples include:

  • A brightly colored front door
  • Exterior trim in a color that sharply contrasts the base color of the building
  • Colored shutters (or brightly colored curtains that highlight your windows from both sides)
  • Colored exterior accents as part of the building design

What do we mean by that last example? Well, part of modern building is going outside of tradition. Instead of designing a building with flat faces that are only interrupted by windows, you could draw attention to support beams by leaving them visible to the outside. These can be painted or coated in something colorful, turning them into accent pieces and breaking up the monotony of the facade.

Dynamic Building Shapes

Why is it that buildings are always boxes? Sure, it may be simpler, but it’s not better. Heidan Construction’s design team loves to think outside the box – literally. Asymmetrical roofs, angular houses with more than four sides, and subverting expectations are things that we love. If you’re looking for an artistic building design that defies the norm, you’re come to the right place.

High Quality Construction

Visual results are one thing, but quality construction is another. Even a death trap of a house can look good at first glance. What matters is that it stays looking good while also being safe and durable. Heidan Construction designs and builds long-lasting houses that withstand weather and daily use. Our designs are for more than some quick magazine snapshots and then quick deterioration. We know you’ll be living here for a long time and we offer quality construction accordingly.

Custom Features

Finally, part of artistic, luxury building design is meeting our clients’ unique needs. If you love unusual designs, you probably come with some unusual needs. If you need custom features to turn a house into a home, let us know. We will customize your home so that it fits you like a glove.

Give us a call if you’re interested in discussing custom building designs. Whether you’re looking for a new home or a new office space, we can give you exactly what you need and more.

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Why Do People Love Open Concept Design?

It’s no mystery that open concept design is beloved by a large percentage of people. But, why is that? What exactly is the magic in open concept design that draws people in so consistently? At Heidan Construction, we get a peek into a lot of people’s design desires since we specialize in custom homes. Let us tell you a bit about what makes open concept so loved.

Object Permanence

For a lot of people, object permanence is easier in theory than in practice. That is to say, a lot of people have a hard time remembering things exist when they’re not able to see them. This is why a lot of leading organizational experts are encouraging people to organize in ways that make things more visible.

With open concept home design, you take this practice and put it into action on a larger scale. You’re more likely to read a book if your bookshelf is visible from the couch, than if your bookshelf is in your home office. It’s more likely you’ll work out if your stationary bike is just a few steps away. With open concept design, you can have things more visible more of the time. And, of course, this comes with the added bonus of motivating cleanliness.

Easier Communication

An open concept home design comes with social benefits as well. Communication is a lot easier without walls dividing us. Even in homes that aren’t considered open concept, we can see the evidence of this in breakfast bars. More homes are taking down the wall between the kitchen and dining room. This isn’t just to provide you with another place to eat. It’s also because people like to be able to talk between the dining room and kitchen. With an open concept home, this is put into action all over the house.

Better Light Flow

Walls, walls walls. They do a lot for us, but they also get in the way – literally. The more walls you have, the less your home’s light is able to flow from one space to the next. You can invest in oodles of electric lighting, or you can take advantage of open concept design and some nice, big windows. With an open concept home, your living room window may be able to light all the way from the living room to the kitchen. And, we assume your kitchen will have a window of its own. That means ample lighting from all angles.

Not only is light flow better for seeing what you’re doing and where you’re going, it’s better for your mood. The more natural light your home gets, the less likely you are to be depressed. A decrease in depression makes us happier, more productive, and more likely to clean up after ourselves. 

Easier Navigation

Finally, one of the best things about open concept homes is how easy they are to navigate. This isn’t just true for strangers trying to find your bathroom. You may not get lost in your own home, but you will take longer to get from one place to another the more walls there are. With fewer divisions, you can take a few steps and get from living room to kitchen to dining room. And, all of that convenience comes without sacrificing actual size and space.

Buy Open Concept Custom Homes

If you want an open concept home that fits all of your needs, you should contact us at Heidan Construction about getting a custom home. We specialize in luxury custom homes in contemporary and modern designs. So, let us take a stab at designing a home just for you.

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Architecture Design Build Experts in Toronto

If you need a building produced, whether that’s for living or working, you need architects that know what they’re doing. More importantly, you need architects that do what you want. Moreover, they need to do it right. Fortunately, Toronto has exactly that. If you need a building custom made, architecture design build experts are available right here at Heidan Construction.

Design Build Makes Building Easy

If you’re not familiar with the term, design build means a company does the designing and the building. Instead of hiring two separate teams to do the designing and constructing, you can get it all done in one place.

Design build makes building easier for everyone involved. Why is that? Well, for one thing, the team building is intimately familiar with the designs. There’s a smaller chance for error, since they’re the ones who created the design. Plus, you don’t have to worry about contacting two different teams and transferring blueprints between them.

The process is easy with design build. You come in for a consultation, we sit down and discuss your needs, we make a plan, then we build that plan. In the end, all you had to do was tell us what direction to go in and then confirm that our plan met with your approval.

Architects with Style

Heidan Construction isn’t your average construction company; we’re a company with style. We aim, specifically, to build modern and contemporary homes and offices. We aim for luxury and class. Therefore, when you rely on us to build a home or office for you, you can expect stunning results.

A lot of construction companies out there are perfectly adequate at building average, normal homes. However, if you want to reach beyond that, you have to go with someone who’s familiar with the unusual. When you work with Heidan, you can expect unique ideas that look great and meet all of your day-to-day needs. 

Builders with Class

Furthermore, construction can be classy. It’s not an uncommon stereotype that construction workers are classless, rude, and messy. That’s not us. When our team builds your home, you can trust that they’ll be respectful in attitude, respectable in appearance, and leave the place in sparkling shape. When we say your home is turn-key ready, that means no more construction site – just your new home and yard.

Modern Homes and Businesses

Luxury custom homes and offices built by Heidan Construction’s team of architecture design build experts are the best there is. They’re the perfect beginning to a modern home or business. You can expect state of the art smart technology, automation, and motorization of every part of the home. That is, assuming you want that. In the end, what we’re here for is to fulfill your custom home and office desires in style. Call us today if you’d like to set up a consultation. We look forward to hearing from you.