Home Design Services in North Bay and the Nipissing Region
Kidd’s Homes and Cottages is the home and cottage building arm of Kidd’s Home Hardware Building Centre, a family-run dealer in the Almaguin Highlands. We supply Beaver Homes & Cottages material packages for family homes and seasonal cottages owners throughout the Huntsville and Muskoka region. Our design service is built around an in-store design consultant who works with you on your site, your floor plan, and your family needs to create the home or cottage of your dreams. The consultant is with you from the first meeting through to final delivery. Backed by Home Hardware’s national network.
For buyers researching home design services in North Bay and Nipissing region, our service starts with one of more than 100 stock floor plans across our Single Story, Multi Story, Signature Suite Collections and additional dwelling units or create your own complete custom designs.
If you are searching for a custom home builder in the North Bay and Nipissing Region, our services are very similar. We supply home packages in Parry Sound all in a locked in price. All of the design work is handled in-store with your own personal consultant before the build begins. Whether you are doing your own build, using a contractor of your choice or we can provide one for you, the material shows up as you need it and there are no delays.
How the Process Works
1. Home Design Services Consultation
Home design services in for the Parry Sound District starts with an in-store consultation. Sit down with our design consultant to talk through your lot, timeline, budget, and what you want the home or cottage to do for your family. We will walk you through the stock plans that fit and outline what a modification path would look like or start from scratch with a complete custom design.
2. Plan Selection and Modification
Choose a stock plan, modify existing plans or work with our Architectural Solutions Group create a complete custom. Move walls, change roof lines, add a garage, swap window placements. Modifications are quoted before they are committed, so there are no surprises later.
3. Material Package and Locked Price
Once the plan is set, you get a guaranteed locked in price. The price holds from agreement to completion within normal construction timelines. The four-part guarantee covers design, quantity, price, and quality.
4. Build
Hand the blueprint to your contractor, manage the build yourself or let one of our contractors take care of you. We coordinate material delivery to the site and stay available through the build for any package questions that come up.
Designing for North Bay and Nipissing Lots
North Bay and the surrounding Nipissing region lie farther north than most of cottage country, and the design needs to reflect that. Deeper frost depth, heavier snow loads, longer cold spells, and shorter build seasons all factor into the plan. Lakefront and rural lots come with their own variables — septic and well siting, slope, and view lines that shape where rooms go.
Our packages are specified with those realities in mind. Standard inclusions are R-60 attic insulation, R5 continuous rigid insulation plus R-22 batt wall insulation, Energy Star windows with Low-E coating and argon gas, engineered structural components including engineered posts and beams, raised heel trusses, and high-performance engineered floor joists. The Beaver Homes & Cottages material list assumes the building will endure Northern Ontario winters for decades, not just a season.
Communities we work with across the district include North Bay, Astorville, Callander, Nipissing, Bonfield, Chiswick, Powassan, Trout Creek, Commanda, Bear Valley, Golden Valley, Arnstein, Restoule, Loring, Port Loring, Ess narrows, South River and Sundridge. If you have a lot anywhere in North bay or Almaguin Highlands area, the design consultant can talk through how a stock, modified or custom plan would fit your needs.
Every design meets or exceeds the National Building Code of Canada and the Ontario Building Code. The four-part guarantee covers design, quantity, price, and quality.
One Design Consultant at One Locked Price
You work with one in-store design consultant from the first meeting through to end of the build. The same consultant walks you through plan selection, modification options, Builder Risk Insurance, and guidance on progress-draw mortgage.
The price you agree on is the price that holds through to completion within normal construction timelines.
Stock, Modified and Custom Plans
Compact cottage models like the Bluebird and Chickadee suit waterfront and recreational lots, starting at 528 square feet. Larger family homes like the Craigleith reach 2,045 square feet. Our Architectural Solutions Group can modify each stock plan to fit your land and your desired use of the space or design a complete custom home or cottage.
Owner-Builders and Contracted Builds
Whether you are managing the build yourself or handing the blueprint to a contractor, the design service produces a complete set of working drawings, guaranteed material package and Builder Risk Insurance to cover the project during construction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kidd’s Homes and Cottages supplies customizable material packages and in-store design services rather than offering a full custom design-build service. You can modify any stock plan to suit your lot, and the package goes to your chosen contractor or to you as an owner-builder. For buyers who want a blank-page custom design, we can do that too.
Home packages include the blueprint (working drawings), structural components, exterior finishing materials, and interior finishing materials to primed drywall, all of which are quantity-checked. The package does not include the lot, site preparation, foundation work, mechanical systems, flooring, fixtures and labour. These are quoted separately.
All aspects of a stock plan can be modified, including layouts, room counts, rooflines, window placements, garages, exterior finishes, and interior finishes. We can even do complete custom plans. Structural changes go through the Architectural Solutions Group so the engineering stays sound and the plan still meets code.
Yes. The material package is designed to be delivered to any contractor you choose or to you as an owner-builder. The blueprint, the engineered specifications, and the material package give your builder everything they need to quote labour and schedule the build.
Build times depend on the plan, the lot, the builder, and the season. The price lock holds within normal construction timelines. Your design consultant can talk through realistic expectations for your specific plan and lot.
We include Builder Risk Insurance to cover the project during construction. We guide first-time builders through progress-draw mortgage paperwork so funds are released at completion stages rather than all at once. Both are part of the design consultant’s job, not separate add-ons.