01Custom homes
Building a new house was the biggest decision we’ve ever made, and it never felt rushed. We walked the site most Saturdays and always knew exactly where things stood.
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Custom Home Builder in Oakville
Custom home builder in Oakville working from your designer’s plans on your lot. The designer answers for the drawings, and the builder answers for everything built from them, through to handover.
- Licensed builder
- WSIB
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
What’s included
What’s included
in a new house.
Nothing is covered until its stage has been inspected, so walls close on work that has passed.
Plans and permits, coordinated with your designer
Drawing is the designer’s part. The builder coordinates with the designer and the municipality on the application, and work waits on the permit.
Foundation, framing and roof
Interior trade work begins only once the house has been closed in, after the foundation, frame and roof are done.
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC, coordinated
With the house closed in, the builder lines up the plumbing, electrical and HVAC trades, and each rough-in gets inspected ahead of the drywall.
Interior and exterior finishes
Framing and finishes both belong to one builder: paint, trim, flooring, drywall and insulation inside, windows and siding outside.
Final inspections and handover
Handover follows the final inspection, the last of the municipality’s inspections at set stages during the build.
How it runs
The whole frame,
stage by stage.
Whole houses and rooms alike follow the same order: five stages, each answered for by one builder.
- 01
Permits
Before the first dig, the building permit is issued and your designer’s plans are ready.
- 02
Structure
Foundation first, then frame and roof, ending with the house closed in.
- 03
Trades
No wall closes until HVAC, plumbing and electrical are lined up with one another and inspected.
- 04
Finishes
Inside and out, the finishes are done by the same builder who built the frame.
- 05
Handover
After final inspection sign-off, the keys are handed over.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
Approvals and ground work come first on a new house, and no interior work starts before the roof is on.
The builder reads your designer’s plans for what has to be built first, and any change to the drawings goes back to the person who drew them.
Separate sanitary and storm lines run under the lot, so they are laid out before the foundation is formed and not worked out around the walls.
The house is framed and roofed first, so the wiring, pipes and ducts are roughed in under a roof and in a fixed order.
Regulated status, drainage and buildable area are checked on the lot early, so the plans do not have to be redrawn to satisfy an approval.
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Client reviews
Their house,
their words.
Whole homes and single rooms, in the words of the people who live in them.
02Whole home
We put off the whole house for years because we couldn’t picture living through it. Akram walked us through every stage before it started, and each week went the way he said it would.
03Kitchens
The crew covered the floors and cleaned up at the end of every day, which mattered with two kids at home. The new kitchen is the room everyone ends up in now. Worth every week of takeout.
04Basement apartments
We turned the basement into a unit for my mother-in-law. She has her own entrance and her own kitchen, and we still get Sunday dinners. The paperwork I was dreading turned out to be the part I thought about least.
05Additions
We needed more room but didn’t want to leave the street. The second storey went on over the summer, and from the sidewalk you’d think the house was always built that way.
06Bathrooms
One bathroom is a small job for a builder, but they treated it like the whole house. The tile lines up, the door finally closes properly, and they finished the week they said they would.
07Knockdown & rebuild
Our old bungalow wasn’t worth saving, so we took it down and built new on the same lot. They kept the neighbours in the loop from demolition to the final walk-through. We love coming home to it.
08Basements
The basement used to be storage and a furnace. Now it’s a family room the kids actually want to be in. A clear quote, no surprises, and the site was swept every night.
09Whole home
We bought an older house knowing it needed everything. Akram was straight with us from the first visit about what was worth keeping. Every room is new to us now, and it still feels like the house we fell for.
10Kitchens
Third builder we spoke to, and the only one who returned every call. When we changed our minds about the island halfway through, they made it work without any drama.
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Projects
Selected work,
inside and out.
The two whole homes are a bungalow and a new house, the three rooms a basement, a kitchen and a bath, each one complete.
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A dark gable, glazed two storeys high.
A limestone base carries deep green-black board and batten, with a cedar porch and limestone forecourt, and a standing-seam roof.
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From the street
to the basement.
Every service, from the street to the basement. Tap a picture to see it whole.Whole-home street views lead, with kitchens, bathrooms and basements after. Any picture opens to show it whole.
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Service area
Within an hour
of Burlington.
Towns we build in
- 01BurlingtonHaltonHome base
- 02HamiltonHamiltonby Hwy 403, 15 min, 18 km by road, approximately
- 03OakvilleHaltonby the QEW, 20 min, 24 km by road, approximately
- 04AncasterHamiltonby Hwy 403, 25 min, 28 km by road, approximately
- 05MiltonHaltonby Hwy 407, 30 min, 30 km by road, approximately
- 06MississaugaPeelby Hwy 407 and Hwy 403, 30 min, 41 km by road, approximately
- 07CambridgeWaterloo Regionby Hwy 8 and Hwy 5, 45 min, 51 km by road, approximately
- 08KitchenerWaterloo Regionby Hwy 6 and Hwy 401, 55 min, 72 km by road, approximately
And anywhere else inside the line.
Common questions
Common questions
in Oakville.
What Oakville homeowners ask about custom homes: what it costs, how long it takes and what the city asks for.
No per-square-foot rate is stated here, since the price follows the house that is drawn. Oakville adds lot conditions to it: land that has to keep draining after grading changes, existing grades to be met at the lot line, a removal permit for any tree 15 centimetres or more across at chest height, and heritage rules on designated properties. Size, the finishes and the approvals do the rest.
On a tear-down lot the schedule starts with Oakville's demolition rule: a demolition permit is issued only once the permit for the replacement building is ready to be issued. Utility sign-offs ahead of demolition can take six to eight weeks as well. The build that follows runs foundation, framing and roof, then the trades, then finishes and inspections.
A building permit for the house and, on a tear-down, a demolition permit that Oakville releases only with the replacement permit. Add a removal permit for a protected tree in the way, a heritage permit if the property is designated, and Conservation Halton's permission near a creek valley, a steep slope or the shoreline. Hanna Homes assembles the applications beside your designer.
Plans and permits come first, and on a rebuild lot the utility disconnections and demolition are sequenced ahead of the foundation. Then the frame goes up and the house is closed in, the trades follow, then the interior and exterior finishes, and the final inspection before handover.
Your designer draws them and Hanna Homes builds from them, working the permit through with the designer and the Town. In Oakville the drawings need to show how grades will meet the neighbouring lot, since grading along a property line has to match existing grades.
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people in Oakville ask.
What people in Oakville search before custom homes, answered for the town.
Who handles the demolition clearances and permits on a rebuild lot, who answers for the trades, and whether grading and tree permits are raised before the design is final. Hanna Homes, licensed and based in Burlington, covers all of these.
No total is quoted here. The cost follows size, finishes and the lot, and Oakville lots add grading, tree and sometimes heritage or conservation requirements. A rebuild also carries the demolition and utility clearances before construction.
A custom build gives you the plan and, on a rebuild, a clear site, at the price of approvals and utility lead time. A ready house skips both but keeps its layout. The lot decides how heavy the approvals are.
Good to know
Good to know
about custom home builders in Oakville.
What changes the work in Oakville: the rules, the houses and the ground.
Custom home builder permits in Oakville
The Town's building permit covers the house itself, and Hanna Homes assembles the application with your designer so drawings and paperwork keep pace. A heritage permit is a separate matter: Oakville requires one for changes to a property designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, and a property that is only listed does not. Old Oakville's Heritage Conservation District has guidelines that were updated in 2025, and a new house inside the district is designed to them. The lot's address is therefore checked against the district map before anything is drawn.
Custom homes in Oakville: building on your lot
Oakville sets rules that shape a footprint early. Any change to the approved or historical grades must leave the land able to drain, and grading along a shared lot line has to meet the grades already there, which can call for swales or retaining walls. Removing a tree of 15 centimetres or more in diameter at chest height needs a permit of its own. Conservation Halton adds a third review where a lot touches a creek valley, a steep slope, a wetland or the lakeshore: most works in or beside those features need its permission, and the house is placed with that in mind.
Custom home cost and timing in Oakville
Price moves with the size of the house, the finishes and what the lot demands. In Oakville the lot items are grading work, tree permits and, on some lots, heritage or conservation review, and on a rebuild the demolition and utility clearances are added before construction begins. Once approvals are in, the work goes up in sequence: foundation, then framing and roof until the house is closed in, then electrical, plumbing and HVAC, then finishes inside and out. The Town inspects at set stages, and handover waits on the final one.
Tear-down and rebuild permits in Oakville
Oakville's demolition by-law, 2023-101, ties the two permits together: a residential demolition permit can only be issued once the permit for the replacement building is also ready to be issued. A rebuild therefore cannot start with the demolition crew. The drawings for the new house are finished and reviewed first. The Town's demolition guide also asks builders to allow six to eight weeks for utility providers to sign off on clearances, because additional infrastructure or underground work may be required. Hydro, gas, water and sewer disconnections are booked early, and those sign-offs set the earliest demolition date.
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Licensed builder
Burlington, Ontario
15+ years
Building
300+ houses
Completed