We took down a 1960s split-level on a deep Old Oakville lot and built a four-bedroom custom home in its place. The architectural language is contemporary — clean massing, deep eaves, charcoal Hardie cladding paired with limestone — but the floor plan reads as traditional, with formal rooms on the main floor and family quarters above.
The structural work was the long pole. The owners wanted no visible columns on the main floor. That required a steel transfer beam through the centre of the house, engineered to carry the full second-floor load over a 32-foot span. The beam is hidden in the second-floor framing; the main floor reads as fully open.
We handed over the keys 14 months from the start of demolition.