Toronto Extra Living Space

With Modular.ca, the Modular Addition concept is simple and powerful. You get the extra living space you need, the quality you want and the service you deserve - all at an affordable price you never

FLEXIBILITY
You will work with our in-house qualified expert designers to create you custom built home additions or new home

CONTROL
The Modular “One Stop” approach to home additions means everything is carefully planned, giving you complete control over construction costs.

All of the structural building parts, such as floor system, exterior walls and roof system are factory-built in our facilities. This structure is shipped to the project site and built-in in a matter of hours. The following day shingles are installed and the house is ready for interior work.

By using our unique approach, custom built exterior walls, roofs, dormers and a variety of design details are possible. This system allows us, with your help, to design an addition in a matter of minutes, which will perfectly meet your requirements and budget.
All modules and all finishing materials are pre-calculated, so you can have control over construction cost.

15 myths behind housing crisis in Britain (Part-2)

We don’t need any more homes Instead of predict-and-supply, say greens like Mark Lynas, we need to restrict the demand on new homes. ‘Addressing this doesn’t mean forced sterilizations or a Chinese-style, one-child policy’, writes Lynas, having clearly thought about ‘Plan B’, ‘but it does mean giving incentives for people to have smaller families to raise in a luxury community townhomes and addressing rising levels of immigration’.
Well, Lynas might want to join the anti-immigrant British National Party, but there is no need to. There is plenty of land to build on, without making a dent in the countryside, and there are plenty of people to do the building. The only barrier is the one that his friends in the CPRE lobbied to have put in place, the green belt.
More social housing is the answer A few people have looked at the shortfall in new homes and concluded that the decline is due to less council housing. That is not quite true. In the mid-Eighties, the private sector took up the slack, and in the Sixties, both boomed. It should not matter whether homes are public sector or private, but there is good reason to distrust the call for more social Oakville luxury community homes.
Those who call for more council housing do so because they want to keep control over people, and do not trust them to make their own choices about where to buy. The green lobby supports council housing in the same way that the gentry supported almshouses for the poor - to keep them securely locked up, away from the toffs’ country houses.

New homes are ugly Even very intelligent people fall for this line. Considering just how big Cultural Studies is in our universities, you might have thought that somebody would have learned its basic lesson: most so-called aesthetic judgements are nothing but class snobbery dressed up as ‘taste’. Nearly every single house in Britain is a box. Much-prized Georgian terraces are boxes. Anti-growth campaigners like to show slides of urban developments from the skies, to make us all look like ants - but who lives in the skies? When people say that new homes are ugly, what they mean, but cannot bring themselves to say, is that they think of the people in them as being ugly.

Here, just steps from the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail, the condominiums abounds in every detail from the suite designs, to the magnificent finishing selections offered, to the fabulous amenity complex, to the convenience of marine-side living.  Life at San Franciso By the Bay is infused with charm and grace at every turn.

5 tips: Renovating your home
If you’re looking to remodel this year, now is a good time. You may even be able to get your contractor on the phone…on the first try!

That’s because the remodeling market is slowing down according to Kermit Baker of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Contractors may not be as busy these days because homeowners are concerned about rising short term interest rates and slowing home appreciation in luxury waterfront communities.

Even the Labor Department statistics indicate that contractors are less busy than they were a year ago. That’s good news to homeowners who in the past may have had to wait up 12 months or longer for services.

2)Think trends, not fads OK, so we all know that if you want to get the most bang for your revo buck, you should look to the kitchen and the bathroom.

Remodeling living space and renovating these rooms can give you a 98 to 100% return on your money.
Try to avoid the hot trends that tend to come and go like trash compactors or avocado green appliances. ”

It’s hard to predict when or how market remodeling trends change,” says Baker. “Trust your instincts and you’ll be able to enjoy all the changes you make.”

3) Scope out the ‘hood When you remodel, you want to get an idea of what your neighbors are doing.

You may love the fish pond and the menagerie or the wrought iron fence, but you generally don’t want your house to look out of place.

Bankrate estimates that no matter what you do to increase the value of your home, you shouldn’t plan on pushing your home’s value beyond 25 percent of its current selling price; even in the best market, you probably won’t get it.

On the other hand, if you’re the only house on the block without a deck or a swimming pool or other luxury amenities community lifestyle, you may want to consider adding features that make your home more attractive to buyers.

4) Contractor checklist When it does come down to hiring a contractor, there are a few rules you’ll want to keep in mind.

First of all you’ll probably be happier if you go with a contractor who was recommended to you.

Consumer Reports suggests that when it comes to jobs like plumbing or other professional services, you should hire them yourself. Don’t let a general contractor do the hiring. You’ll save time and money.

Make sure you get at least three bids to gauge the going rate, but don’t always jump at the lowest rate. Consumer Reports warns that people who did generally got poorer work.

Of course you know to ask for proper licensing and insurance. Certification from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry is a plus.

And finally, it comes down to dollars. Get estimates. You should have a piece of paper that lists the products, material, labor costs and a time table.

5) Silver: The new granite? So what kind of trends will we see going forward? All you have to do is look to your parents for the answer.

An aging demographic is going to drive more demand for renovations that help boomers get around. That means wider doorways and hallways, bathroom handrails and wheelchair accessibility.

If you’re looking to remodel for your parents or you just want to find out what they’ll need in their own home, there are resources.

Check out the National Association of Home Builders Web site at www.nahb.org and search under CAPS. This will direct you to Certified Aging-in Place Specialists. These are remodeling professionals who have taken certification classes for senior remodeling needs.

“This is a generation that has wealth and longevity,” says Baker. “And most aging people don’t want to move.”

The real-estate bust has stripped all the smoke and mirrors from the housing market. In the starkest way possible, it is revealing which homes hold value in a recession, and why.

Certain upgrades can help recession-proof your house, but your home’s price resilience mostly depends on choices you made when you purchased. Since most homeowners buy and sell several times in their lives, you’re likely to have a chance to use these bulletproof principles the next time you buy.

Location, location, location
You’ve heard it before because it’s true: Location matters. It matters most, in fact, when it comes to holding value under pressure. Why? Because houses are replaceable, but land is not. If you’ve got a spot everyone wants, like Uxbridge downtown Toronto condominiums, your place will sell faster and for a better price than a similar house elsewhere.

Schools and safety. These make or break values. In some Bay Area communities, overseas investors buy homes sight unseen based on the value of the city’s public-school rankings. Questions about schools and safety are the first out of buyers’ mouths, says Furhad Waquad, an agent in suburban Detroit. He refers them to local police departments for neighborhood information and to the free Standard & Poor’s school evaluation service, SchoolMatters.

Culture and public services. Buyers favor homes near libraries, parks, playgrounds and revitalized or charming commercial areas with shopping and coffee shops and theaters. An easy walk to light-rail terminals and bus lines is a plus. In affordable luxury townhome communities full of retirees, proximity to hospitals and doctors’ offices is valued.

One caution: Watch out for noise. It’s good to be close to an elementary school but not next door, and it’s good to be near a main street with bus service but not directly on it.

Infrastructure. Although the fringes of hot cities are popular locations when prices are rising, interest falls off quickly in a downturn. City sewer and water service help hold up prices compared with an identical home on a septic system and well water. Cities with fatter tax bases may boast quicker fire department response times, better-maintained streets and stronger schools, all of which sustain demand.