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Custom Toronto Vacation Home Design And Construction

Not everyone lives in Toronto year-round. For some, getting closer to the city is a seasonal change. Spending the holidays here or coming here for the summer is the preferred state of things. However, unless you want to pay outrageous hotel prices, it might be more economical to invest in a custom Toronto vacation home. Here are some of the benefits of keeping a second home.

Impromptu Getaways

Is there anything better than deciding you want a change of scenery and just going somewhere? With a custom Toronto vacation home, you can just make the decision to visit the city without having to plan anything. Think of spontaneous weekend vacation dates with your significant other. Or a quick visit to family without sleeping on their pullout sofa. Getting to visit Toronto without planning ahead is a fantastic way to turn vacation into something relaxing – which it should be!

Flexible Vacation Dates

Not only can you go on vacation at the drop of a hat, your vacation dates are flexible. Booking a hotel or a room at a bed and breakfast doesn’t have that kind of flexibility. Planning to spend a couple weeks in the city over your kids’ spring break? Finding out last minute that one of them has one more midterm 3 days into spring break isn’t going to cost you hundreds in hotel rent or cancelation fees. Simply staying behind a few extra days is completely free.

It goes the other way too! Everyone already packed a couple days ahead of time? Surprise the family by calling in sick to work and whisking them away a bit earlier than expected. Your custom Toronto vacation home is waiting and ready.

Comfortable, Personal Lodgings

A hotel has its perks. However, even when you’re paying an arm and a leg, getting a hotel room never really feels personal. For a lot of people, it’s hard to relax when thinking about someone else having slept in the same bed 12 hours earlier. Plus, even the cleanest hotel rooms have dirty little secrets hidden in the fabrics and carpet. Do you really want to spend your vacation paying hundreds a night for a space that’s riddled with unsavory history?

Vacationing in your own home means staying somewhere that’s stocked with all of the essentials, right to your specifications. The towels are the right size and softness, the design is exactly what you like, and the kitchen is full-sized and full of utensils. Plus, if you find yourself on vacation frequently, you can simply keep a second set of clothes and such at your Toronto vacation home. Then, packing more than a backpack isn’t even necessary.

AirBnB Property in the Off-Season

If you find yourself only using your Toronto vacation home for a quarter of the year and don’t mind sharing the space, you can also rent it out as an AirBnB property. Or, if you’d rather have fewer people using your home, you can simply sublet it. If you spend summers there, sublet it for the school year to students. If you spend the school year in Toronto, sublet it for the summer as a vacation destination. No matter how you do it, you can make a few bucks instead of letting it sit empty.

Custom Toronto Vacation Home Design

If you want a custom Toronto vacation home, you can get one with help from Heidan Construction. Call us today and set up a consultation. There, we can discuss the home design and create something that’s perfect for you and anyone else in your family.

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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.