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Lighthaus Built is a custom home building and renovation company in downtown Toronto, Ontario.We work collaboratively with architects, designers, trade partners, and homeowners to ensure the project's design is thoughtfully developed with everyone's input

10/13/2026

Could a concrete truck make that turn? It’s one of the first questions we ask on a laneway build.

Before we plan any laneway project, we walk the lane from the main road. We imagine a very long concrete truck coming down the street and ask whether it has the turning radius to get in. Can it swing in, or will it have to back up partway? What about the other corners?

Every Toronto laneway is different. This one is fairly wide, with room to park a truck without blocking neighbours. Some have a “no trucks” sign because the lane is tight enough to put window sills at risk. The toughest are lanes with only one way in and out. We’ve poured concrete on those and had neighbours’ cars backed up with nowhere to go.

None of this has anything to do with the house itself, yet it has everything to do with how it gets built and what it costs. Access, equipment and scheduling around neighbours all add up. That’s why we assess them before a number goes on paper.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Read our 2026 guide realistic laneway house costs in Toronto on the blog. Link in bio.

10/08/2026

What happens when a roof starts pushing a brick wall apart? 🏠

On this renovation, we found a crack line running along the top of an exterior brick wall, right beside the existing stair opening. Look at it in profile and you can see the top three or four courses of brick have been pushed outward.

The cause is the roof itself. On a gable roof, the rafters meet at the peak and push out against the walls. Normally, floor joists tie those walls back and hold everything in place. At this stair opening, there were no joists doing that job. On a wood-frame house, that thrust might show up as a bowing wall. Here, it moved the brick.

Next step: we’re working with the structural engineer on a fix. It’s a good example of the conditions you can’t see until the walls are open, and why every renovation budget needs a contingency.

Stay tuned. We’ll be back with more progress when the underpinning starts.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Want support planning your project? Comment BUILD and we’ll reach out with our FREE Toronto Renovation Cost Guide.

Two laneway houses. Same size. Very different price. Here’s what makes the difference.💦 Servicing distance: the further ...
10/06/2026

Two laneway houses. Same size. Very different price. Here’s what makes the difference.

💦 Servicing distance: the further your suite sits from the water, sewer and hydro connections, the more trenching you’ll need. It’s one of the most underestimated line items.

📏 The 45-metre rule: if the suite’s entrance is more than 45 metres from the street, the City requires extra fire protection. That means a sprinkler system, an exterior strobe light and a smoke alarm warning system.

🌳 Protected trees: Toronto protects trees with a trunk diameter of 30 cm or more, and their root zones can shape where and how you build.

⚡️ Electrical capacity: on our Mirvish Village project, the new suite and an EV charger pushed the property from a 200-amp to a 400-amp service.

The good news is that nearly all of these can be identified before construction starts. That’s exactly why planning matters.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces. From concept to completion, we guide homeowners through a clear, high-touch process that blends craftsmanship, project management excellence, and design-forward thinking — so you can build with confidence, clarity, and peace of mind.

Want support planning your project? Comment BUILD and we’ll reach out with our FREE Toronto Renovation Cost Guide.

Why does a small house cost so much? 🧐A 600 sq ft laneway house should cost a fraction of a full-size home, right? Not q...
10/01/2026

Why does a small house cost so much? 🧐

A 600 sq ft laneway house should cost a fraction of a full-size home, right? Not quite.

A laneway house often costs more per square foot than a large renovation or addition. That’s because a small building still needs almost everything a big one does: a survey, drawings and a permit; a foundation, a full envelope and a roof; a kitchen and a bathroom; and its own heating, hot water and electrical service.

Those fixed costs don’t shrink with the building. They just get spread across fewer square feet.

Then add the realities of building at the back of a Toronto lot. Equipment has to come down a narrow lane, and utilities have to be run a long way from the street.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Read the full breakdown on the blog. Link in bio.

Client Testimonial⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Lighthaus was very professional, well-organized, clean and their attention to detail was spo...
09/29/2026

Client Testimonial

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lighthaus was very professional, well-organized, clean and their attention to detail was spot on. They did a wonderful job at keeping the project on schedule, on budget and the lines of communication were always open.

—Chris H

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We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Want support planning your project? Comment BUILD and we’ll reach out with our FREE Toronto Renovation Cost Guide.


September in Toronto has a particular energy to it. The cottage is closed up, everyone’s back on a schedule, and the kit...
09/17/2026

September in Toronto has a particular energy to it.

The cottage is closed up, everyone’s back on a schedule, and the kitchen you’ve been tolerating all summer suddenly feels like a problem with a deadline attached. It’s also the month homeowners start pricing things out — and immediately hit a wall, because searching “kitchen renovation cost Toronto” returns numbers from $16,000 to $150,000 with no explanation of what separates them.

So to help solve this, we wrote down what we actually see. Real ranges by tier, where the money goes line by line, what pre-war Toronto houses hide behind the plaster, and the question nobody else answers: what a kitchen costs when it’s one piece of a larger renovation instead of a standalone project.

Read the full breakdown in the latest blog post!

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👋 We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

From concept to completion, we guide homeowners through a clear, high-touch process that blends craftsmanship, project management excellence, and design-forward thinking — so you can build with confidence, clarity, and peace of mind.

📬 Want support planning your project? Comment BUILD and we’ll reach out with our FREE Toronto Renovation Cost Guide.

Most of the kitchens we build aren’t standalone projects. They’re one scope inside a larger renovation — and the economi...
09/15/2026

Most of the kitchens we build aren’t standalone projects. They’re one scope inside a larger renovation — and the economics of that work in the homeowner’s favour.

You pay for mobilisation once. Site setup, protection, dumpsters, permits, scaffolding. On a standalone kitchen, one room carries all of it.

Trades come once instead of twice. The walls are already open, so running new circuits or relocating plumbing costs a fraction of what it costs when finished walls have to be opened and repaired. One permit process covers everything. The flooring blends.

The honest trade-off is disruption — a whole-home renovation usually means moving out. But if a bigger project is already on your horizon, doing the kitchen inside it is almost always the better math.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Read the full breakdown on the blog. Link in bio.


“Kitchen renovation cost Toronto” returns numbers from $16,000 to $150,000. Nobody’s lying to you — the question is just...
09/10/2026

“Kitchen renovation cost Toronto” returns numbers from $16,000 to
$150,000. Nobody’s lying to you — the question is just badly defined.

A cabinet refresh in a condo and gutting the back half of a century semi are both called “a kitchen renovation.” Averaging them together produces a number that’s useless for planning your project.

So here’s the range sorted by what you’re actually buying — cosmetic
refresh, mid-range remodel, full custom, and structural. Four very different projects, four very different numbers.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Read the full breakdown on the blog. Link in bio.


A kitchen that fits like a glove doesn’t come off a shelf.Custom cabinetry gets scribed to the room you actually have — ...
09/03/2026

A kitchen that fits like a glove doesn’t come off a shelf.

Custom cabinetry gets scribed to the room you actually have — the century semi that’s settled, the wall that isn’t plumb, the ceiling height nobody planned around. Stock cabinetry can’t do that. It gets filler panels instead.

Swipe through a few of the kitchens we’ve built across Toronto. Different houses, different budgets, different design directions — but every one of them was drawn for that space and nowhere else.

Most of these were one scope inside a larger renovation, which is usually where the best kitchens come from. When the walls are already open, you’re not designing around what you can’t move.

We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces. From concept to completion, we guide homeowners through a clear, high-touch process that blends craftsmanship, project management excellence, and design-forward thinking.

Want support planning your project? Comment BUILD and we’ll reach out
with our FREE Toronto Renovation Cost Guide.



08/13/2026

We’ve had a busy few months! Here’s another behind-the-scenes update, this time from our Evan Avenue.

Evans Avenue is a highly sought-after, tree-lined residential street in Toronto’s Runnymede-Bloor West Village. It features charming, classic Edwardian and Tudor-style homes.

This update takes you through the post-demo progress on our Bloor West Village whole-home renovation. With the wiring stripped and walls down, the main floor is now open — a small wall will come back near the entry to create a spot for coats and boots, but the rest stays open as planned.

During the engineering review, we found the existing floor joists above weren’t sized for the new clear span, so we’re sistering them for extra support — a straightforward, inexpensive fix since opening up the space already minimized the wiring rework needed.

To manage costs, the homeowners chose to keep most exterior walls intact, but opted to strip back the kitchen walls, where an old filled-in window had been letting in cold drafts. We’re framing new 2x4 walls in front of the brick, fully insulating and rewiring them, so that corner of the kitchen will be warm and properly sealed going forward.

Follow along as we take this one over the finish line.

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👋 We’re Lighthaus Built — a Toronto-based luxury builder and general contractor specializing in custom homes, large-scale renovations, and transformative living spaces.

Want support planning your project? Comment BUILD and we’ll reach out with our FREE Toronto Renovation Cost Guide.

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