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Luxury Custom Family Homes in Toronto

Luxury custom homes are a great aspiration for most people. They have so much to offer to professionals, those heading into retirement, and successful young couples making an investment in their future. However, we can’t ignore one of the most common demographics in the country: families! When you have kids, luxury custom family homes are what you’re looking for. And those come with a few extra perks. Here’s what Heidan Construction could do to improve your family’s day-to-day life.

Intercom Systems Enhance Communication

Tired of the headache of yelling up the stairs for your kids to come down for dinner? Want to check if your teen is awake in time to leave? A home intercom system is a fantastic addition in luxury custom family homes. They make communication a breeze. Sure, you could text each other. But who wants to feel tied to their cellphone even in their own home? Plus, sometimes text notifications go unheard. Speaking directly through the intercom means contacting each other from anywhere in the home, at any time, without going unnoticed. 

Not only does this improve communication, it also lowers stress. Did you know that households with a lot of yelling have higher stress levels? This doesn’t just apply to households where anger is the source of the raised voices. Humans just naturally get tense when people are yelling back and forth. Release that tension with an intercom.

High Quality Security Improves Safety

While no one wants to have their belongings stolen, there’s a bigger concern with potential break-ins: safety. Break-ins can be extremely dangerous to anyone in the house when it occurs. Most robbers aren’t there to hurt people, but fear and adrenaline can lead to irreversible harm.

If you’re going to invest in a luxury home, investing in a high quality security system is a must. Your home isn’t just attractive to you; it’s also attractive to those looking for a quick buck.

Save Time with Remote Controls

Running a household and caring for a family is a lot of work. If your schedule is full and you’re tired of details falling through the cracks, you’ll benefit from smart-home controls. Many parts of the home can easily be controlled remotely these days. With an app on your smart device, you can control:

  • The home thermostat
  • Window blinds in any room of the house
  • Your security system, including alarms and cameras
  • The locks on your exterior doors
  • Many entertainment devices, such as wired-in home speaker systems

Say goodbye to leaving the house and wondering if you turned the alarm on. Adjust the thermostat on your way back from summer vacation so that your luxury custom family home is cool when you arrive. Unlock the front door for your sister so she can check on the dog while you and the kids are away for a retreat.

Luxury Custom Family Homes in Toronto

Want a custom home tailored to your exact needs? Give us a call at Heidan Construction and we can work together to design one just for you. Get everything you want and nothing that you don’t, all in a beautifully designed package.

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Custom Homes for Sports Enthusiasts and Athletes

Buying a custom home is a fantastic experience. In the end, you get everything you need. After all, it’s designed just for you! However, when looking at custom home advertisements, they’re always catering to the average professional. What about those of us who prefer a life of activity over sitting in an office? Sports enthusiasts and professional athletes need look no further than Toronto’s leading construction company, Heidan Construction, to find custom homes they love. Let’s take a look at what “custom home” can mean for someone like you.

Amenities for Activity

For those who just enjoy a bit of activity in their daily lives, there are amenities that support that. For example, an indoor or outdoor pool is a great way to relax and stay active. Swimming is one of the most underestimated forms of exercise. Taking a dip in the pool may be relaxing because it takes the edge off of gravity, but it also works every muscle in your body.

Indoor pools are great for year-round use, privacy, and ease of upkeep. They also offer the opportunity to install a pool heater. Outdoor pools, however, are more seasonal, require a bit more upkeep, and are less private. However, they come with the benefit of letting you relax in the sun or take a dip in the moonlight. If you enjoy being outdoors, an outdoor pool might be the better option.

Indoor Courts

Custom homes for athletes bring comfort to games often played outdoors or at the gym. Enjoy a nice game of racketball? How about a game of basketball with the familiar squeak of the wooden court flooring under your shoes? Trade in outdoor, paved courts for a private basketball court attached to your home. 

Without the need for high tech scoreboards and bleachers, indoor basketball or racketball courts aren’t actually hard to make. The most expensive part of them is the space they occupy. If you want an indoor court that you can use at any time of year with comfort, you can have it. If money is no object, you can even opt for those fancy accessories like the electronic scoreboard!

Indoor Gym and Luxury Bathroom

Leisure and games are a favorite to many. But, they’re not the only way to stay active. If spending some time each day lifting weights or running in comfort is what keeps you feeling good, an indoor gym is exactly what you need.

Anyone can throw a treadmill and some dumbbells into a spare bedroom. But, can they create an extension of their home that feels just like their own private gym? If you’re working with Heidan Construction, you can.

Not only can you cancel your gym membership and remove the commute from your schedule, you can do it in luxury. After all, an in-home gym isn’t half as great if the gym bathroom is as oppressive as a public one. Instead, attach a luxury on-suite to your personal gym. Sweat it out in a built-in sauna. Refresh yourself in an open-concept shower with multiple showerheads and a bench to recover on. Relax those tense muscles in a soaker tub. There’s no wrong way to feel luxurious after working out.

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Remodeling an Old Office Building

Office building designs have changed over the years as office employees’ needs have changed and evolved with the times. These changes go hand in hand with technological advancements, workplace standards changing, and more. Therefore, if you have an old office building, remodeling may just be in the cards for you. If so, Heidan Construction is here to help. Here are just some of the many ways you can improve your office and its performance with a remodel.

Boost Morale by Bringing in Nature

One of the most important parts of creating an effective and efficient work environment is ensuring employee morale is maintained. Employees are everything to a company. Without them, the company has nothing. Therefore, ensuring the mental health and happiness of employees is met is paramount.

Nothing is better for employee morale and mental health than bringing in a touch of nature. Sitting inside under fluorescent lights all day is extremely depressing. However, the same job can be a pleasure to do if the work space gets lots of natural light and nature views.

During your office building remodel, opt for installing some large new windows. The bright daylight pouring in will lower electric light costs, improve mental health of employees, and make working for you a more enjoyable experience.

Introduce Integrated Standing Desks

While standing desks aren’t for everyone, those who enjoy them can gain a lot from them. Sitting from morning until night is extremely bad for the spine – one of the human body’s weakest links. Putting in integrated standing desks that can be adjusted from sitting to standing – then back again – at any time of the workday puts comfort and physical health at the forefront of company priorities.

Those who prefer to sit can continue working as usual. However, those who need a bit of variety to prevent stiffness, joint pain, or back pain can spend some time standing without having to move to a laptop or commit to a standing desk 100% of the time. 

Expand to Meet Space Needs

As a company ages, it naturally expands to allow for growth. Therefore, your building needs to expand as well. If you’re not buying or building additional offices to accommodate new employees, your staff is growing more crowded by the year.

Remodeling an old office building means an opportunity to give employees back some of that space that’s been infringed on over the years of collecting new hires.

Expand with a second floor, add on new rooms for meetings or recently created departments, and create new offices for higher level employees to work with privacy.

Rebrand with Modern Design

One of the best parts of working with Heidan to remodel an old office building is that we specialize in modern design. Anyone can build a bland strip-mall office space. We offer something unique and valuable: designs that speak about your brand without words. Let us design a new office-front for you that compliments your brand and the demographic you’re trying to reach. We know good design can make a world of difference and we want to make that difference for you.

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Renovate an Outdated Medical Clinic

Medical clinics are one of the most important buildings to keep up-to-date in terms of design. With every passing year, technology advances and brings new standards to medical facilities. Therefore, if you haven’t renovated your medical clinic in the past 10-20 years, it’s due for an update. Heidan Construction is the #1 choice to renovate medical clinics in Toronto. Let’s talk about why that is and how we can help your clinic make a comeback.

#1 to Renovate Medical Clinics

What is it that makes Heidan Construction the best choice for renovating medical clinics in Toronto? For one thing, we have a long track record with happy clinic owners who have hired us to build their medical offices for them. Additionally, we offer something many construction companies don’t: high class, modern designs.

While you can get a new building from almost any construction company, you don’t get the kinds of designs we offer from just anyone. We aren’t just a construction company; we offer design build contracting because our team is made up of skilled construction workers as well as architectural designers. That means you get a clinic that appeals to those with an eye for design – or an eye for class.

Keep Your Building Fresh

Even if an outdated medical clinic has all of the technology updates it needs to keep up with competition, you could still benefit from renovation. Why? To keep your building feeling fresh. We all know what it feels like to step into an old building and feel the age dragging down its quality. Don’t let that be your clinic.

If your clinic has stained or unfortunately colored carpet, chipped paint, cracked tiles, or other signs of age, give it a refresher. Renovate your outdated medical clinic to make it feel like new again, without the price tag of an entirely new office.

Update Fixtures, Appliances, and Technology

While many medical clinics may keep their technology up-to-date in spite of the poor aesthetic aging, many others won’t. Modern computers mean a need for modern in-house computing systems and solutions. Building these solutions into the clinic from the beginning is best. When you renovate an outdated medical clinic with help from Heidan, we can bring you the most modern solutions for your digital records and computing needs.

However, computers aren’t where medical technology ends. If you have medical machinery in your clinic, it may need an update as well. We’ll work together with you to determine which pieces of machinery are still working well. We can replace those that aren’t. New medical technology is designed every year. Make sure you’re offering your patients the best care possible.

Keep Your Clinic Hygienic

Finally, we can’t ignore the hygiene benefits of renovating an outdated medical clinic. While deep cleaning is also effective, a boost in hygiene is simply a natural side effect of renovating. Bacteria on walls becomes trapped and killed by a new coat of paint. Broken tiles that allow for mold and bacteria growth get replaced by watertight tiles that can be properly cleaned. These are just a couple of the benefits of removing the old and bringing in the new.

Call us today if you’re interested in bringing your medical clinic into the 21st century where it belongs.

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Contemporary Home Design That Breaks Convention

Contemporary home design is something that has become popular and well-known over the past couple of decades. However, with time, every interior design style must shift into something else to better reflect the preferences of the new generation. So, let’s take a moment to look at the ways you can achieve a contemporary home while breaking conventional contemporary standards.

Introducing Other Styles as Accents

One of the most fun ways to break any interior design style’s conventions is by crossing it with other design styles. A contemporary home has a very recognizable look. But, what if you took something with a very recognizable look of a different style and used it as an accent?

Have you ever seen some of the bright, color-saturated light fixtures from the 70s? Stick one of those above your table in a contemporary dining room and it’s sure to catch the eye of anyone visiting.

Break expectations by serving dinner on antique ceramicware with painted designs. Love it or hate it, outdated dinnerware contrasted on a modern, black table will get the attention and opinion of anyone who sees it.

Contemporary Maximalism

Contemporary home design is known for its minimalist appearance. Homes with this style usually display spaced-out decor of single colors. Glass shelving proves to make the space feel even more open. What if you turned that convention on its head and maintained the contemporary design of all of your home’s contents, but quadrupled the quantity?

Imagine glass shelves crowded with glass sculptures of varying sizes. Imagine abstract canvas art that fills the whole wall in a beautiful, asymmetrical pattern. Decorate your dining table with a runner, candle holders, glass flowers, ceramic shakers, and anything else you can fit on it between the settings.

Colored Glass

If you enjoy the contemporary convention but want something about your home to stand out, you can achieve that with colored glass. Contemporary home design is famous for its use of glass to improve lighting and make a room appear more spacious. Shelving, tables, light fixtures, and more are all made with transparent glass. What if you kept all of that the same but used colored glass?

A coffee table with a glass top is classy, but it isn’t a focus piece. A top pane of translucent, blue glass would make it a focus piece. Add on a piece of decor with the same color in it and it will make it pop. A glass bowl with blue stones and a candle in it resting in the center would make the table stand out so much more than if it was completely clear.

Fabrics Galore

Finally, you can break contemporary convention with lots and lots of fabric. Contemporary home design doesn’t have a lot of fabric in it. Outside of upholstered furniture and long drapes, contemporary design prefers hard materials over soft.

Challenge this convention with contemporary home design that uses as much fabric as possible. You don’t have to buy expensive curtains to do this. Even buying lengths of your favorite fabric from a craft store can give you everything you need. No sewing skill is necessary. Just fold it in creative places to hide raw edges and no one will even notice.

Go for layered curtains. Tie fabric across the backs of dining chairs. Fix fabric to the wall near the ceiling and let it drape along the side of artwork, like curtains do a window. Put down more rugs. Put out more throw blankets. Bring a touch of warmth and softness to an otherwise hard and cold interior design style.

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High Class Veterinary Clinic Design and Construction

The average person probably doesn’t think of a veterinary clinic as something high class, but that doesn’t mean they’re right. Veterinary clinics are a necessary part of owning a pet for people of all classes, which means high class clinics exist – or they should. If you’re a veterinarian looking to serve a high class demographic, your clinic needs to reflect that. Here’s how Heidan Construction can build you a high class veterinary clinic that provides the image you’re looking for.

What Goes into High Class Veterinary Clinic Design?

People might not consider a vet the same as a doctor’s office but, at the end of the day, they’re almost identical. The facilities in a veterinary office are the same things you would find in a regular doctor’s office. There are just a few special additions, such as kennels, floor scales, and high exam tables.

Because of this, our experience designing and constructing medical clinics makes us the most qualified to take on a high class veterinary clinic design. Reception, waiting area, privacy, plenty of storage space, and the right layout to accommodate large equipment are some of the things vital to any medical building. Whether the patients are human or not makes little difference.

What Makes a Veterinary Clinic Design High Class?

Veterinary clinic designs can vary dramatically depending on who built them, when, and what the owner’s budget was. What really makes the difference between low and high class veterinary clinic design is the budget and design team.

Any old design team can create a building to house veterinary equipment. However, creating a design that feels classy while still meeting all of the functional needs of the vets working there is more than just slapping down a generic, modern building.

A high class veterinary clinic designed by Heidan Construction will employ beautiful, modern design elements. We value large windows that bring nature indoors and spacious interiors that offer breathing room in waiting spaces and exam rooms. Plus, when desired, we can add in intercom systems, modern, high tech thermostat systems, high quality alarm systems, and more. Our goal is to give you a clinic that feels luxurious to work in and luxurious to visit.

Where Service Meets Experience

Making room for all necessary equipment, records, and storage is vital for a clinic to offer good service. However, in expensive neighborhoods, in a clinic where people pay for the best, they’re paying for experience as well. Low wait times are worth more when you’re waiting in a comfortable and attractive waiting room. Good vet care is worth more when the building makes that care feel more valuable. People want an environment that’s a constant testament to the competence of its occupants.

Hire Heidan Construction

Call us today at Heidan Construction to schedule a meeting or get a quote on your new veterinary clinic. We look forward to working with you to make high class vet service available to your area of Toronto.