ABOUT
DAKOTA RIDGE BUILDERS
About Us
Dakota Ridge Builders is an award-winning, leading custom home builder. We will help you plan a custom home that works well on your lot, fully reflects your design goals and makes the most of the unique topography of your land.
We Build For Life.
Living where you want, in a custom built home, on land you may have dreamed about for years…it’s all worth it.
Roots in the log and timber industry.
Dakota Ridge Builders began operations in 2009. However, the experience of the team goes back further to 1999 with the founding of West Coast Log Homes. After years of seeing contractors make avoidable mistakes when finishing log and timber structures the team at West Coast Log Homes decided to offer complete construction services as Dakota Ridge Builders – named after a well-known local mountain recreation area.
The combination of West Coast Log Homes and Dakota Ridge Builders allows us to leverage heavy log and timber experience with professional construction management principles to offer exceptional custom homes showcasing a unique west coast style.
What We Do
Homes from design to completion.
Building a new home is a complex undertaking and Dakota Ridge Builders can help make the process as smooth and trouble free as possible. From the very beginning we can offer design services to ensure your home is designed in a cost effective manner. During construction our project managers will provide detailed estimates, cost tracking reports, and delegate sub-trades. Additionally Dakota Ridge Builders will coordinate between clients, architects, designers, and engineers to ensure a smooth flow of information between all partners.
Building with a difference.
At Dakota Ridge Builders we pay attention to details. Our techniques for ensuring a properly built home are first-class and surpass industry standards. We believe that clients must be brought to understand the importance of proper construction details.
“Excellence is never an accident; it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities.”
- Anonymous
Custom Built Homes
Custom homes are designed for a specific location, the topography of the lot, view lines and with many other factors in mind. If you like having the ability to make broad choices from a variety of options, living where you want on land you have dreamed about for years, then building a custom home is for you. You choose the lot, the size of the home, the floor plan, the number of bedrooms and baths and any custom features you want to include to suit your family’s needs and lifestyle. You will have ideas about where to situate your home on the lot, highlighting natural landscape features, and incorporating design elements handcrafted out of wood and stone. Building a home can and should be a rewarding and positive experience. The good news is, you don’t have to know everything.
Your Dream Home
Many of our clients have a vision of their dream home that includes the land their home will rest on, as well as ideas about the design and construction of their ideal home. Selecting a favourite piece of land and then designing and building a home influenced by the unique topography and views of the lot is an exciting experience.
Custom Homes Built by Dakota Ridge Builders
Each home was designed and positioned to work around and showcase the site’s natural features and to make the best use of its views. For details and more pictures of each project, click on the images below. If you see something you like, give us a call; we’re happy to discuss how your favourite elements will fit into your dream home.
Consult A Builder During the Custom Home Design Process
Dakota Ridge Builders has considerable local knowledge and strong build-on-your-lot expertise. It’s wise to consult with a builder who is skilled in conducting a careful assessment of the feasibility and cost to build on a parcel of land; ideally, before you purchase that land. Inviting your builder to become part of your land search process is a sensible call.
We can help you avoid more difficult lots and save you money — both on the purchase price of the property and by helping you better understand, in advance, the cost to turn land into a buildable lot. By doing this work in advance, we can provide you with valuable insight and advice. Many times we find few issues to resolve with a prospective lot. For clients who already own land, we also conduct site evaluations to review the positioning of your home on the lot, inventory trees that can be retained, discuss utilities available and overall site development potential.