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Waterfront, wooded, or well off the beaten path — we build cottages made for cottage country.

Custom Cottage Building

Cottages Built by People Who Understand Cottage Country

A cottage isn’t a small house — it’s a different way of living. Sightlines to the water. A great room that holds three generations on a long weekend. Decks that become the real living room from May to October.

We’ve built cottage-country retreats from Parry Sound to Wasaga Beach for five decades. Waterfront setbacks, island logistics, sloped lots, seasonal roads — we’ve solved them all before.

  • Our Country Retreats line is designed specifically for cottage lots
  • Walkout-basement designs for sloped and waterfront properties
  • Well, septic and off-grid-friendly site development
  • Four-season builds — a cottage you never have to close
A Georgian Bay cottage A&R built
Open great room with a panoramic window wall
Your View, Framed

Panoramic Designs for Spectacular Properties

If your property’s best feature is the view, our Panoramics line was designed for you — window walls, open interiors and integrated sundecks that put the lake or forest at the centre of the plan.

Every plan is a starting point. We’ll orient, stretch and reshape it to fit your exact lot and the way your family uses the water.

See Country Retreats Plans
★★★★★
“From the first meeting, we felt heard. Our cottage feels like it was always meant to be on this lake.”
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Before You Buy the Lot

Waterfront Rules Decide What You Can Build

Conservation authority sign-offs and waterfront approvals shape the footprint long before a design does. So does the septic bed, the well, and how a driveway can reach the site at all.

We will do a zoning review before you commit to a design — or to a property. On a waterfront lot that review is often the difference between the cottage you pictured and the one the setbacks allow, and it is far cheaper to learn it now.

How we handle approvals Site preparation

An A&R cottage on a waterfront lot

Ready to build your dream home or cottage?

Tell us about your project and we’ll reply within two business days. No pressure — just an honest conversation with a builder who listens.