Sound familiar?
A view this good deserves a builder who has read a window schedule.
Modern homes fail at the details: the corner mullion that leaks in year three, the cedar that was never meant to blacken that fast, the builder who "does it like a normal house, but glassier". We build modern only, and we build it once.
- Envelope first, drama second Every Cascade home starts airtight and insulated past code — the glass is only as good as the wall it sits in.
- A 3D model you walk before we build Every client walks their unbuilt home at full scale. Corners get changed in the model, not with a chequebook on site.
- Crews that build modern only Our carpenters have not framed a colonial in a decade. Specialization is not a slogan; it is why our corners close.
The best room is the one the landscape is already decorating.
Handover set, 2024–26
The homes
New modern homes
Blackened cedar, bronze glass, envelope-first. Lakeside to ridgeline.
Modern remodels
Opening the box: walls to glass, rooms to light, nineteen weeks typical.
Cabins & second homes
Small-footprint modern on the hard-to-build lots everyone else declines.
Four gates
The path to keys
Site & view study
We read the land, the light and the bylaw before drawing a wall. Free, and occasionally the best money you never spent.
The model
Design in 3D, walked at full scale, revised in the model. You sign the walkthrough, not a floor plan you cannot stand in.
The fixed build
Foundations to keys, one contract, weekly photo proofs. Ninety percent of our builds finish early or on time.
Walking the house in 3D before a shovel touched dirt felt like a gimmick until it caught a hallway that would have been wrong forever. Changed in the model, free. Believer.
Third winter, corner glazing, zero condensation, energy bills like a cottage. The envelope-first pitch was real. The view is also real, every single morning.
They finished our remodel eleven days early and the glass corner is plumb to the millimetre the inspector checked twice because he did not believe it.
Figures, before feelings
Every range below is a completed contract from the last two years, not a market guess. Your fixed figure follows the site study and the model you walk.
The envelope number, measured
We publish heating performance because we meter it. If your Cascade home heats above the modelled line in year one, we find the leak and fix it on us.
2026, design-build, fixed
Modern remodel$280–600k
Walls to glass, 14–20 weeks
Cabins & second homes$420–800k
Small footprint, hard lots welcome
New modern home$1.4M–5M
Envelope-first, keys included
Site & view studyfree
Read the land before drawing
Is modern more expensive to build?
Honest answer: the glazing is, and the envelope discipline is not. A Cascade home costs more per square foot than a spec build and less per decade than a leaky one — the heating line in our figures is measured, not modelled.
Do you build traditionally styled homes?
No. We would be mediocre at it and you deserve a builder who is not. Ask us for the two traditional builders we refer — they send us their modern clients back.
Can we use our own lot?
Most clients do. The site study reads slope, access, septic options and bylaw before you commit to anything — including to us.
What does the walkthrough sign-off mean?
You approve the design standing inside it, virtually, at full scale — ceiling heights, sightlines, the view through every window at the hour you drink coffee. It is the single best decision-saver in our process.
The lot is waiting. So are we.
Start with the site study — it is free, and it is honest.
Cascade & Oak · Lic. B-91087 · Envelope warranty 10 years · Studio: 12 Larkspur Ln, Bellwood