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Luxury Custom Home Designs for Individuals

Living alone means getting to live your way. That’s even more true when living in a custom home, designed specifically for you. No matter the reason for your solo habitation, it shouldn’t stop you from living in style. Luxury custom home designs for individuals are easy to obtain by giving us a call at Heidan Construction. Together, we can make a home that’s tailored exactly to your needs.

The Right Amount of Space

Living alone means you may not need as much space as the average house offers. Because most homes on the market are made to accommodate families, you can end up with a lot of undesired space. While a big house is often a sign of success, for some, it just means more rooms to clean. Not everyone gets maid service to keep on top of dusting.

If you would prefer a house on the smaller side, there’s no reason you shouldn’t have it. Quality comes in all shapes and sizes.

Additional Rooms

Most people would agree that any home needs a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom at the very least. However, you don’t have to strip your home down to the bare minimum just because you’re the only one living there. You have needs too!

Part of your individual custom home design may include an office or study. Or, perhaps you’d like a guest room for family or friends. Living alone doesn’t have to mean being alone.

Zero Compromise on Style

Perhaps the most exceptional part of living alone is that you don’t have to compromise on stylistic choices. Designing a custom home is a huge step in anyone’s life. If you’re designing it with a partner, you’ll have to work together to design something that suits both of you. A custom home design for one individual only has to satisfy that one individual.

When you consult with us to begin the custom home design process, you’re in charge. Tell us what you want, what you need, and what you can’t live without. From the dimensions of your walk-in closet to the height of your living room window, it’s all up to you. Of course, anything you aren’t particular about, we’ve got covered. Our team of home design experts have a good eye for style. However, the proof is in the pudding. So, check out our portfolio to see exactly what we consider stylish.

Custom Home Designs for Individuals in Toronto

Whether you’re a professional, retiree, trust fund baby, or lottery winner, we’re ready to work with you. Let’s start on your individual custom home design and build you an iconic Toronto home. Call us as soon as you’re ready to schedule a consultation. Or, just let us know if you have questions. After all, it’s best to have all the process details pinned down before jumping into anything. We look forward to hearing from you.

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How Luxury Home Technologies Improve Your Life

Have you ever wondered why people seem obsessed with luxury home technologies these days? Are they really worth all the hype? As luxury home designers and builders, Heidan Construction is very familiar with the smart home technologies that everyone considers luxury. We’re happy to give you an honest look at how they impact the day-to-day lives of their users – for better or worse.

What Are Luxury Home Technologies?

Luxury home technologies are more commonly referred to as smart home technology. Smart home technology is all throughout many modern homes. What is it that makes something ‘smart’? Generally, an appliance is considered smart if it’s been hooked up to the internet. 

You might be baffled by the idea of hooking many of your home appliances to the internet. However, there are quite a few neat reasons why it’s been done. Thinking outside the box, tech developers asked themselves, “If this device could do more for me, what would it do?” Then, they set out to find the answer and make it a reality.

Here are just a few of the things that have been made “smart”:

  • Fridges
  • Clocks
  • Coffee makers
  • Cameras
  • Speakers
  • Lights

The Best of Smart Home Technology

When it comes to smart home technology, there are some things that are more useful than others. Taking a look at overall scoring from users, we can see easily that there are some appliances that are leaps and bounds better than others at being “smart.”

One of the most useful of luxury home technologies are thermostats that can be controlled from your phone. Being able to turn the heat on or off without leaving the desk is a huge plus to almost any homeowner.

In fact, most of the favored smart home appliances are the simple functions of the house. Door locks that can be controlled from an app, automated, motorized blinds, and intercoms that can be spoken through from your phone are just some of the basic home functions that are better when made smart.

The Worst of Smart Home Technology

Where there’s good, there must also be bad. So, what are some of the luxury home technologies that people weren’t as impressed with? Let’s start with the smart fridge. 

Smart fridges come in many shapes and forms. Some of them are pretty alright – offering apps, like Spotify, that can be useful when in the kitchen. However, others go above and beyond… and end up creating more opportunities for failure than for success. 

One such example is a smart fridge with a screen covering its entire front. This screen displays the products inside the fridge and is used in grocery store fridge sections. But… if the screen is broken, then you’re left with a useless black display. Wouldn’t it be handy if there was something completely transparent to allow you to look inside the store fridge without any functioning technology? Hmm…

Luxury Home Technology That’s Right for You

While some luxury home technology is a hit, and others are a miss, it all comes down to personal needs. If you aren’t a fan of voice activated devices listening to you all day, we can skip those ones. Plenty of smart devices introduce smartphone accessibility without being voice activated.

If you’re looking to have a luxury custom home built, we can take a good look at what devices you may be interested in during a consultation. We look forward to working with you and creating the most technologically capable home you could ask for.

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Transitional Custom Homes in Toronto

Extremely contemporary design isn’t for everyone. However, even those of us with more traditional tastes are looking for a bit of an update. Outdated interiors can be such a downer. If you agree, the perfect home for you is a transitional custom home. What are transitional custom homes? Are they really what you’re looking for? Let’s check them out.

What Are Transitional Custom Homes?

Transitional custom homes are those meant to transition from older designs to newer, without fully committing to either. The older styles you like get a bit of an update without fully jumping to modern contemporary. This is ideal for many middle-aged homeowners who aren’t interested in a “sleek interior.” Sleek interiors often feel too cold and formal. Transitional homes bring a bit of a design edge to an otherwise cozy design. That means your home looks updated and “with the times” without sacrificing the cozy appeal of older design.

Why Opt for a Custom Home?

There are many benefits to opting for a custom home. To start, you get to decide how and where your home is place on whatever plot of land you’re building on. If you’d like your home to face a street, you can do so. Or, if you’d like it half a mile from the nearest road, you can decide on a long driveway and additional privacy instead.

Home placement isn’t the only part of custom home design that makes it worth exploring. There’s also the benefit of getting to completely customize both your interior and exterior. Have you ever had a pet peeve that seemed to follow you from home to home? “Why is my bedroom floor always so cold?” you ask yourself. With a custom home, you can decide to get heated flooring without having to DIY it or hire someone to come into your home when you’re already living in it. All of those personalized updates can be incorporated into the base design of the home. For this reason, custom homes are perfect for anyone with needs outside the standard.

Why Design Build Is the Best Choice

When buying a custom home, there are many ways to go about doing so. The most common procedure is hiring a design team to make your custom blueprint. Then, when you have the blueprint ready, you can take it to a construction team and pay them to build it.

Heidan Construction takes a different approach to building transitional custom homes. We offer design build. That means our design team is also our construction team. When you work on your home design with a certain group of people, those people being the ones to build your home can leave you assured that your home ends up exactly as intended. Passing a design from one team to another can lead to design flaws, miscommunication, and a less than ideal result. You won’t have to worry about that with when hiring Heidan Construction as a design build team. We do it all, and we do it just how you ask us to. Start the process of getting a transitional custom home today by calling us at Heidan Construction.

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Single-Floor Luxury Custom Home Design

To many people, a luxury home brings to mind a two or three-story house. Bigger is better right? Well, not for everyone. Some people want luxury and beauty in a bite-sized home. If you want a single-floor, one-story luxury custom home, we’re the people to design it for you.

Luxury Home Design Features

The benefits to a luxury home design are often in the technology and quality of fixtures. Because of that, it stands to reason that any size home can be luxury if treated right by its designers. Any home with a kitchen can have a smart fridge. Any home with windows can be outfitted with motorized blind. Ease of access and high quality living comes in many different shapes and sizes. Don’t let popular housing designs fool you. If you want luxury in a smaller package, you can have it. Just contact the right company – like Heidan Construction.

The Benefits of a Single-Floor Luxury Custom Home

To many people, the right size home comes with only one floor. This can be for many reasons. Wheelchair users may not want the hassle of transferring chairs to go from one floor to another. Other people may just prefer a smaller space to keep clean. No matter who you are, bigger does not always equal better.

The Right Design Team

When having a single-floor luxury custom home designed, you have to choose the right team. There are many different types of home design teams, but Heidan Construction is different. Instead of just designing your home, we offer design build opportunities. That means we both design and build your home. We have experts in both fields on our team. That way, you know your home is being built by the very people you explained your needs to.

Every person has different reasons for wanting certain parts of their home designed a certain way. When you hire a team who understands your design needs, there are no misunderstandings when building. Our builders were part of the design process. Anything that needs adjustment can be done with ease, without forgetting your initial priorities. That makes us the right design team for anyone looking for more than just a house. We’re right for those looking for a home.

Design Build in Toronto

Our design build expertise is available to anyone in Toronto. We specialize in luxury homes and office buildings. Our goal is to bring architecture to a new era of design. If you’d like your home to be a part of that advancement, give us a call. We’re always looking for new clients in the custom home market. Our passion for contemporary, luxury design is best implemented with luxury custom homes. Whether those homes come in two stories or one makes no difference to us. We so look forward to hearing from you.

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Custom Homes with Extraordinary Kitchen Designs

Getting a custom home means getting everything you need. Trying to find a home that already exists and is perfectly suited to your needs is nearly impossible. Having one built just for you means no concessions. That includes any unusual preferences you may have. For many people, unusual preferences come in the form of extraordinary kitchen designs. Here are some ways you can break the mold with your custom kitchen designs.

Baker’s Kitchen

Of course, the people who enjoy an unusual home kitchen are usually those who use the kitchen a lot. If you love baking and are living in a standard suburban home, you’re not living your best life. A baker needs so much more than a standard kitchen offers. With a custom home from Heidan Construction, you could have a baker’s kitchen, made with your needs in mind.

Custom kitchen designs for bakers could include multiple, stacked ovens. This would allow you plenty of space for baking many things at once. That means zooming through batches of cookies at a speed a normal kitchen could never compete with.

Additionally, a baker’s kitchen would highly benefit from having built-in cooling racks. If you’re baking cookies four batches at a time, you’re going to run out of counter space for cooling pans really quickly. A built in cooling rack would mean having a frame where you could slide hot pans while their contents cool down after baking.

These two features are only scratching the surface of what you could include in a kitchen made just for baking.

Professional Kitchen

On the other side of the same coin, we’ve got people who love cooking. If you spend your evenings jotting down recipes from The Food Network and then improving upon them in your home kitchen, a standard kitchen isn’t enough. Whether you work as a professional chef or just delight in hobby cooking, your kitchen should be outfitted to handle storing lots of equipment and needing endless counter space for prep work.

Custom kitchen designs for those who cook a lot could include double stovetops with room for plenty of pots and pans to heat at once. Lots of appliance storage space is a must. A lot of specific cooking appliances end up gathering dust in the average household. However, if you enthuse in cooking and find yourself using these all the time, you need a place to store them where they won’t infringe on pantry space.

And, if you enjoy new technology, you might even like an extensive smart fridge – or two. These fridges help you track what items you have available, what needs to be replaced, and more.

Unusual Shapes and Colors

When it comes to extraordinary custom kitchen designs, the practical design is one thing, but the visual design is another. Don’t limit yourself to standards like stainless steel, cut stone, and white, high gloss cabinetry. You can do whatever you want! If you enjoy bright colors or boldly shaped fixtures, you can have that. Whatever you imagine when you think of your dream kitchen, you can have it, unusual shapes and colors included.

Our team of expert design builders at Heidan Construction are happy to help you finalize a kitchen design full of unique and interesting features. Let’s work together to make the kitchen the focal point of your new custom home design.

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Why You Should Build Your Office in Toronto

Having a business office built is a huge step for any new business owner, or even a seasoned business owner looking to relocate. Deciding where to place it is a huge decision. Where you build your office can massively impact your client and customer base, which could make or break your business. Toronto offers a lot of great benefits to those operating here. Here are some reasons we think you should build your office in Toronto.

Heidan Construction Can Build Your Office

To start, if you build your office in Toronto, you can rely on Heidan Construction to bring it to life. Who builds your office can have a huge impact on how successful it is. After all, appearances mean a lot when it comes to attracting new clients. Heidan Construction specializes in designing and constructing beautiful, modern, eye-catching buildings. Your office is no exception.

Our team does design build, which combines the tasks of designing a building and constructing it. Therefore, you can bring your design ideas, sit down, and work together with us to create a design that’s perfect for your brand. Then, you can count on the same team that’s become familiar with your business and its needs to construct your office. There’s no need to worry that your needs will get lost in translation, as they often do when hiring separate design and construction teams. We don’t just follow the blueprint, we follow your lead.

There’s a Broad Consumer Base

Post-construction, when you build your office in Toronto, you unlock a wide consumer base. Many businesses get pigeon-holed into a certain type of service or production because of where they chose to base themselves. Toronto has such a diverse population, you can succeed here without having to twist your business out of its original shape due to local demands.

Toronto Borders the US

Finally, in addition to the commercial success one can attain right here in Toronto, you can also branch out into the US. Because Toronto borders the US, it’s the perfect location for businesses that plan to ship or expand past the border.

Additionally, Toronto takes in a lot of American tourists. That means businesses which offer tourist goods can gain a lot of traction. On the flip side, you can also meet success with American customers by offering American goods. There are many American goods that can’t typically be found on this side of the border. Providing these comforts can gain you a lot of brand loyalty through tourists and those living in Toronto on visa.

Rely on Heidan Construction

All in all, there’s a lot of good that can come when you build your office in Toronto. But, no matter what kind of business you intend to start or expand, there’s one thing that’s certain. You can rely on Heidan Construction to take your office from paper to soil. Just give us a call and let us know you’re looking for design or construction help. We’ll make sure you get what you need.