Adding space for GTA families since 1997
Every line of a real home addition budget: $626,925 before HST.
It’s in The Home Addition Planning Guide, with cost ranges from 100+ additions we’ve built and the stay-or-move math. Read it before you talk to any builder, us included.
The 2026 edition
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What’s inside
The Home Addition Planning Guide, 2026 edition.
The same numbers and rules we use with our own clients.
The budget, line by line
An East York addition we’re building now. Every line, every change order and why it happened: $626,925 before HST.
Costs for four addition types
Second storey, rear, side and combined, priced from additions we’ve built.
The stay-or-move math
What selling and buying again really costs a growing family. It’s more than most people think.
Zoning in plain English
Setbacks, lot coverage, and when the Committee of Adjustment gets involved.
How to read a quote
Five red flags, five costly mistakes and the questions to ask any builder.
Who we’re the wrong builder for
Four honest reasons to hire someone else. Better to know now than after drawings.
Cost ranges come from completed and active BVM projects. Every project is different, and actual costs vary with scope, site, finishes and the market. The guide is educational and is not a quote.
Who wrote it
A family building for families.
BVM Homes is family owned and operated by the Meaghers. Vince started the company in 1997, and four of us work in it today.
Ryan Meagher, our Pre-Construction Manager, wrote this guide from the budgets we build with. He has completed more than 500 property reviews across Eastern Toronto.
“My job is to teach you how this works and tell you the truth about your house. For better or worse, I will give you answers.”Ryan Meagher, Pre-Construction Manager
From a family who ran the math
When you worked in everything, the friction costs of moving, the double land transfer in Toronto, closing costs, agent fees, it was a negligible amount between moving or building the house we wanted.Pete · Inwood Avenue, East York · rear extension and second floor addition
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