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Families love our unique custom cottage building experience!

Meet the Muskoka cottage builders who listen first.

At a recent log construction event, Patrick Bongers shares insights with a skilled craftsman and a potential customer.

Friendly experts

When you and your family first meet Bert and Patrick Bongers, brothers and Partners of CedarCoast, you will quickly notice a difference. These are approachable, respectful, considerate people. Fashioning their company in their own image has naturally placed pleasing customers at the epicentre of everything we do.
You will quickly realize it’s not about retrofitting your family into pre-existing floorplans and pre-scaled drawings. At CedarCoast, we don't think you can fully appreciate the proportions of the home from plans nor can you anticipate how the home will mirror and expand upon the way your family aspires to live. 

Family planning

Looking over stock diagrams , family members invariably ask, 'Where's my room?' or ‘Where do I fit in?’ 

The experts at CedarCoast have a better way. They will help you envision the perfect home for your family… and then discuss the perfect way to design and build it. It’s that simple.

To get at to the heart of what matters to you, they might ask questions, like ‘What’s everybody doing when it rains at the cottage? How do you celebrate? Relax? Entertain? Will this become your retirement home?' Answers to these questions can lead to innovative, perhaps unconventional design ideas like the children's reading nook currently being featured on our home page.
Brothers and Partners of CedarCoast Timber Homes
Our CedarCoast Construction Manager speaks with potential customers.

Why choose CedarCoast?

They will ask relevant questions, such as ‘What's your property like? How can we best utilize its features?’  Or, 'How can we help with your planning?' Later, upon visiting a prospective property, Bert might ask, ’Which is your favourite view?’ 

When considering a custom home builder, think about the all-important relationship that is so pivotal to your overall building experience. CedarCoast is proud of the friends they have made and helped over time. They will  introduce completely finished homes and their 'over the top' happy homeowners, when appropriate, all around the lakes.

CedarCoast Design Team

At every step the CedarCoast Design Team will ensure that you are completely on board with what's being proposed and will review any construction alternatives, as the real planning of your home commences. They will help you through every decision during the design phase, and later on, whenever possible, they will walk you through ongoing development in the home itself. To see one couple’s experience visiting their anticipated cottage, read our blog post  ‘A Perfect Fit on Lake Muskoka’ .
Patrick Bongers, Partner of CedarCoast Timber Homes
The whole family gets in on the fun.
Every member of the family is encouraged to weigh in!

How do we measure success?

CedarCoast measures success by the happiness we are able to build for our customers. Our homes are tributes to the spirit of each and every family that places their trust in us. That's why our homes and cottages are so diverse! 

CedarCoast designs and builds homes as expressions of family living that could be cozy and traditional - or quite thoroughly modern - and literally every variation in between! Please see our post describing one couple's favourite view and their inspirational home - designed to showcase nature's wonder - that blends classic and contemporary design influences seamlessly.

The CedarCoast mantra:
 ‘Families love our homes.
We plan them that way!’

25+ years of building excellence!

Brothers Bert and Patrick Bongers will share over 25 years of building experience in the Muskoka region and around the world. They are proud to approach each project with their signature ‘multigenerational design’, in which easy accessibility is a guiding principle. Read our  'Look Mom No Steps' blog post.

Construction takes advantage of the very latest ‘green’ building techniques.For more on this aspect of CedarCoast’s depth of expertise, please refer to Green Building + Architecture magazine's feature article entitled,

‘CedarCoast is ‘all inclusive’.


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If you are planning a new custom cottage, even in the very first stages of your thinking, we would love to speak with you.

Find out why our customers tell us, "You're not like other builders!"

Call Bert at 1-800-563-5647

CedarCoast is a Custom Cottage Builder Serving Muskoka & Area

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