A home designed for exactly how you live.
From first sketch to key handover, one accountable team designs and builds your custom home — on your lot, on your budget, built for the next fifty years.
Why build custom with Armacan
Most custom-home stress comes from split responsibility: an architect who designs beyond budget, a builder pricing drawings someone else made. As a design–build firm we carry both — the design is priced as it's drawn, and the number you approve is the number we build to.
You'll work with one team from feasibility through handover, with a dedicated project manager, weekly updates and quality inspections at every critical stage.
What's included
Everything below is coordinated by one team, under one contract.
- Feasibility & budget range before design starts
- Architectural design & engineering
- Development & building permits
- Interior design coordination
- Fixed-price contract with line-item scope
- Dedicated project manager & weekly updates
- Energy Step Code-ready construction
- 2-5-10 home warranty & aftercare
From first call to keys
Feasibility FREE
Site review, zoning, budget range — before you spend on design.
Design & Permits
Architecture and engineering, priced as we draw.
Build
Weekly updates, vetted trades, staged inspections.
Handover
Walkthrough, documentation, warranty.
The numbers, before the pitch
Most builders make you ask. Here are the honest ranges most Metro Vancouver custom homes land in — refined to your lot at feasibility, free.
Two ways to build a custom home
| Armacan design–build | Architect + bid-and-build | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the budget | One team, from first sketch | Nobody, until bids arrive |
| Price certainty | Fixed line-item contract | Bids often 20–40% over concept budget |
| When you learn the real cost | As the design is drawn | After months of design fees |
| Design changes | Priced same-week, in writing | Re-bid or absorbed as extras |
| If something goes wrong | One phone number | Architect and builder point at each other |
✱ Representative Metro Vancouver planning figures, mid-2026. Your number comes from your lot, your scope and current pricing — confirmed in writing at a free consultation.
Recent custom homes
Owners who've stood where you are
“We interviewed five builders. Armacan was the only one who showed us a line-item scope before asking for a signature — and the number we signed in March was the number we paid at handover.”
R. & C. Henderson — Custom Home, West VancouverWhat you'll leave the first meeting with
- ✓A zoning and buildable-envelope read for your specific lot
- ✓A realistic budget band — construction, soft costs and contingency
- ✓A month-by-month timeline for your municipality
- ✓The two or three site risks we'd investigate first, and what they'd cost
Reading for future homeowners
Costs & BudgetingWhat a Custom Home Really CostsCost per square foot by finish level, where the money actually goes, and the five drivers that move your number most.
Costs & BudgetingFinancing a Custom BuildHow construction mortgages, milestone draws and the builders lien holdback actually work — in plain language.
ProcessLot to Keys: the TimelineA realistic 24-month map of a custom build — and the two places schedules actually slip.Common questions
It depends on site, structure and finishes — at your free feasibility review you'll get a realistic range grounded in your actual lot, before spending anything on design.
Yes. We'll price and build from your architect's drawings, or collaborate with your designer from day one.
Perfect timing. We'll assess zoning, buildable area and site costs before you buy, so you never overpay for a difficult lot.
As involved as you want to be. You'll get weekly photo reports and budget status, scheduled walkthroughs at foundation, framing, lock-up and finishes — and a project manager you can call directly, any day.
Yes — slopes, tight urban sites and tricky geotech are normal work for us. Feasibility flags the site costs up front, so a difficult lot surprises no one, least of all your budget.
Bring us your lot. Leave with a plan.
Free feasibility review — zoning, buildable area, budget range and timeline.