Eden Fine Homes: design-build company serving Toronto, the GTA and Muskoka, Ontario, for all of your renovation, home addition, custom home, custom cottage, boathouse, dock and deck needs.
Eden Fine Homes is a design-build company: renovations, additions and custom homes across the GTA, and cottages, boathouses and docks in Muskoka, carried from first drawing to keys by one team.
What are you building?
Four kinds of work, one team. Start where your project starts and the rest of the site meets you there.
Our own work.
Boathouses, custom homes and docks we built, photographed on site as they stand. No renders, no stock houses.
One team, first call to keys.
Design-build means the drawings, the budget and the construction answer to the same people. Five steps, no hand-offs.
- 01
The first conversation
- 02
Design and budget, together
- 03
Permits and approvals
- 04
The build
- 05
Handover
Two regions, one team.
City and suburban builds across Toronto and the GTA. Cottages, boathouses and shoreline work across Muskoka. The same crews, the same standard, a highway apart.
Toronto & the GTA
Muskoka & cottage country
What things cost, and who has to approve them.
Published Toronto and Muskoka ranges, the site factors that move them, and the permits behind a dock, a boathouse or an addition, written by the company that does the work.
Questions we hear on every first call.
Something we did not cover? Call (416) 333-6753 and ask Emilio directly.
What areas do you build in?
Two regions: Toronto and the GTA, including North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill and Mississauga, and Muskoka cottage country, including Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Huntsville, Port Carling and the big lakes. If you are near either, ask; the areas page lists every community.
Do you design as well as build?
Yes. Eden is a design-build company: the drawings and the construction live under one roof and one contract. You are not hiring an architect, then a builder, then refereeing between them; the design is priced as it is drawn, so the budget and the plan agree before work starts.
What will my project cost?
No honest builder can price a custom project from a phone call, but we can tell you what drives the number: site conditions, foundation and structure, the envelope, and the finish level you choose. The what-it-costs page explains each driver plainly, and the first conversation will put a realistic range on your specific project.
How long does a project take?
It depends on design complexity, the permit path, and the site, and anyone who quotes months before seeing those is guessing. The timeline is scoped with the design and written into the schedule before construction starts, so you always know the plan for your project rather than an average of someone else's.
Do I need a permit for a dock or boathouse in Muskoka?
Usually, and often more than one. Municipal building permits apply to almost all boathouse work, conservation authority approval applies where they have jurisdiction, larger crib work can need an MNRF work permit, and federal fisheries and navigation rules can apply on some waters. Our permits page walks through it, and scoping that path is part of how we design waterfront projects.
Can you handle waterfront and cottage-country sites?
Waterfront structures are core work for us: two-storey boathouses, docks and shoreline structures are a large part of our portfolio. Building on the water means planning around ice, water levels, granite shorelines and short seasons, and those constraints are designed in from the start rather than discovered during construction.
What happens when a site is difficult?
Difficult sites are normal for us: exposed rock, slopes, tight urban lots, work at the waterline. The answer is always the same, investigate before designing, design for the site rather than fighting it, and put the risk in the plan instead of the contingency line.
Do you take on additions and renovations, or only new builds?
Both. Additions, whole-home renovations, structural alterations and basement framing are part of our core work alongside new homes, cottages and boathouses. The same crews that frame our new builds do the structural work inside renovations.
Who will I actually deal with?
Emilio, the owner. He is the person you meet first, the contact while the job runs, and the one whose name is on the work when it is done.
Tell us what you want to build.
A first conversation costs nothing and settles a lot: whether the site can do it, whether the budget and the brief belong together, and what happens next.