Coquitlam, British Columbia — Lower Mainland
Where three of our four finished houses stand, and the city we know best on the west side of our area.
The ground in Coquitlam.
Coquitlam is a hill, and Burke Mountain is the steep top of it. Almost everything we have built here has been a slope problem first and a house second: retaining walls, drainage, and a negotiation about how much of the grade can be changed. The reward is that a house on this ground can be given mountain, valley and water out of the same upstairs window, which is what the Monashee and Greenbelt houses were designed around.
Burke Mountain has been one of the fastest-filling parts of the region for a decade — large lots on the slope, many of them against the greenbelt, and a client who is usually building the house they intend to stay in.
Steep-slope review is the long pole on most Burke Mountain lots, and the queue for it is real — start it early. [CONFIRM]
Areas we work in
Coquitlam
- 01Burke Mountain
- 02Smiling Creek
- 03Partington Creek
- 04Westwood Plateau
- 05Eagle Ridge
- 06Coquitlam West
- 07Maillardville
Not an exhaustive list, and not a boundary — if your lot is in Coquitlam and not on it, it is still Coquitlam.
What we build here.
Custom home construction in Coquitlam
A new house on your lot, drawn for that lot, built once and properly. Most of our work.
Duplexes and multi-family in Coquitlam
Side-by-side duplexes and small multi-family, including the strata and servicing work that comes with them.
Legal and secondary suites in Coquitlam
Lower floors designed from the start to hold a legal suite, a nanny suite, or both, rather than converted afterwards.
Full rebuilds and major renovation in Coquitlam
Taking an existing house back to what is worth keeping and rebuilding the rest to current code and current expectations.
Design-build in Coquitlam
One team from the first sketch through the occupancy permit, so the drawings and the budget stay in the same conversation.
Houses we have finished in Coquitlam.
Building in Coquitlam — the usual questions.
How much does it cost to build a custom home in BC?
There is no honest single number, and a builder who gives you one before seeing your lot is guessing. The cost of a custom home in British Columbia is driven by the site before the finishes: how far the ground has to be engineered, how much of a slope has to be retained, how long the servicing runs are, and what the municipality requires along the way. Two houses of identical size on lots ten minutes apart can differ by a great deal. We would rather look at the parcel, tell you what it is going to demand, and price the real house than quote a per-square-foot figure that changes the moment the geotechnical report lands.
How long does it take to build a custom home?
Plan for the permit to take as long as the construction. The build itself is the part with a schedule you can hold; the approvals before it are the part that varies, and in the municipalities with steep-slope or servicing review that stage can run from a few months to the better part of a year depending on the city and the parcel. The single largest thing you can do to shorten the whole programme is to start the municipal conversation before the design is finalised rather than after.
Can you build a house with a legal suite?
Yes, and it is worth designing in from the beginning rather than adding later. A lower floor planned from the start around a legal suite — separate entry, separate services, the ceiling heights and egress the code wants — costs a fraction of one converted afterwards, and it is most of the reason our recent houses carry two self-contained suites rather than a basement. Several of the municipalities we build in now treat it as the normal shape of a family house.
How do I start a custom home project?
Start with the lot and one conversation. Send us the address and whatever you have — a survey, a sketch, a list of what the house has to do. What comes back is a plain reading of what that parcel is going to demand before any design is committed to, which is the most useful hour in the whole project. Call 604-300-3107 or use the enquiry form and it reaches Tanvir Bhangal directly.
Thinking about building in Coquitlam?
Send the address of the lot. What comes back is a plain reading of what that parcel is going to demand, before anything is drawn.