Happy New Year

Wishing all of our family, friends, clients, designers, partners, and vendors all the best and a safe and Happy New Year!  Best wishes in 2016!!!

Kitchen Wine Fridge Built-in

This kitchen renovation included a new built-in wine refrigerator along the backside wall of cabinets.

The centre-piece of the cabinets is the Avantgarde wine fridge which is able to storage and maintain the exact temperature for the 168 wine bottles it holds.

Kitchen Wine Fridge Built-in

Very nice touch for those who collect or just enjoy and appreciate a nice bottle of vino...

Oakville Basement Workout Gym Renovation

This project was an Oakville basement renovation project to have a focused area for working out.
The renovation included new flooring from Torly's, new drywall and ceiling with potlights.

Oakville Basement Workout Gym 

The workout area also has built-in shelving for a sound system and for gym accessories.
Hope you like it!

Burlington Office Built-in Wall Unis

This custom office wall unit is coming up for completion soon, but we wanted to share how nice the renovation project is coming along.  

Office Builtin Wall Unit

As you can see, the wall unit is accented by lighting sconces on both sides of the custom wall to wall built-in.  The lower cabinets extend out further than the upper cabinets.

Toronto Crown Moulding

Below is an in-progress snapshot of a living room renovation that Toronto Custom Concepts is doing. You can see that we incorporated some custom woodwork on the ceiling to provide a dimensional waffle ceiling for that elegant effect.  This ceiling was segmented into 6 distinct areas with LED potlights embedded into each section.  We also installed pots in the four corners as well.  We look forward to wrapping this one up shortly.

Living Room Coffered Ceiling

Toronto Condo Master Bathroom Before & After Pictures

This master bathroom renovation was recently completed by Toronto Custom Concepts.

The Before picture on the left shows the previous bathtub, flooring, wall mirrors and vanity prior to the demolition.

The After picture on the right showcases the beautiful new 24x12 porcelain tiles, 2 tier vanity with white quartz countertops, oversized glass double entry shower doors with integrated shower seating.

 Before & After Pictures of a Toronto Master Bathroom

Toronto Guest Bathroom Before & After Pictures

Here are the before and after photos of a recent condo bathroom renovation.

As you can see the Before photo on the left had some dated colours and a older bathtub.  Whereas the new After photo on the right showcases a beautiful custom cut quartz countertop and a new glass shower enclosure with built-in seated bench.

Before and After Photos of a Toronto Bathroom Renovation

Chair Affair 2015

On Friday evening we were sponsoring Furniture Bank's annual Chair Affair auction event at the International Centre by the Toronto Airport.  We were introduced to the Chair Affair by one of our colleague's Cori Halpern who was one of the headline designer participating in the event.

Below is a picture of Cori and Dave with Cori's chair which she designed for the event and was auctioned off to help provide furniture for three families in need.  Great to giveback to the community.

Natural Stone Bathroom Tiles

This bathroom renovation incorporates stunning bathroom tiles from natural limestone that are arranged in a French versailles pattern.  The tiles come in a variety of sizes that are arranged in an alternating pattern.   The sizes include 8"x 8", 8" x 16", 16" x 16", and 16" x 24"
We will upload a picture of the final reveal

Coffered Ceiling

This coffered ceiling which is still work in progress is for a lovely home renovation in Burlington which has TCC building out a custom coffered ceiling design along with new internal walls which provides a balanced signature focal point for the room.   Each section of the coffered ceiling has an embedded LED light installed.  We will send out an picture once the entire project has been completed.

Shower Fixtures

We did this bathroom renovation and configured all the water accessories including double built-in ceiling rainfall showerheads, wall body jets, hand held shower faucet, linear drain.  This shower has all the coolest shower fixtures out there on the market today...

Toronto Bathroom Shower Fixtures

Toronto Wall Mounted Shower Fixtures

Linear Bathroom Drain

We were able to incorporate this linear bathroom drain into our latest shower renovation project. The linear drain allows a top section of the drain to incorporate the same stone/tile finish as the surrounding area.   As you can see in the pictures below, we finished off our project using a dark grey porcelain tile for the top of this linear drain installation.   We feel this provide a sleek squared off look for any modern bathroom shower renovation.

Linear Shower Drain

Toronto Linear Shower Drain

TCC Mobile Website

Our Toronto Custom Concepts corporate website is now fully mobile compatible!

So you can check out our latest projects on our website via your laptop, tablet, or smart phone.
Isn't technology just awesome!

Basement Bathroom Remodel

Doing another exciting basement bathroom renovation in Etobicoke.  We just levelled out the bathroom after repositioning some of the plumbing locations.  We are building out a nice custom wall to wall seated bench contained within the shower area with numerous body jets, double rain showerheads and a long linear floor drain channel.  We are looking forward to sharing some more pictures after the final revel once we finish off the bathroom.

Before During After Pics of Etobicoke Bathroom Reno

Toronto Fall Home Show

It is just around the corner....The Toronto Fall Home Show will be happening again Oct 1-4 at the Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place.

Show hours are 10am-8pm and then 10am-6pm on Sunday Oct 4th.

Celebrity guests include Brian Baeumler, Evelyn Eshun, Dvira Ovadia to name a few of the headliners.

We will see you there!

New Houzz Badges for TCC

Toronto Custom Concepts has received two new distinction badges from Houzz.com

The Houzz Influencer and Houzz Recommended badges highlight TCC's commitment to excellence in the home renovation & remodelling industry.



Thank you Houzz!

Toronto Condo Kitchen

We recently completed a condo renovation which include a new kitchen installation.
The flat panel kitchen doors with quartz countertops go very nicely with the strip flooring.
Our client also wanted to hide their dishwasher so we did a custom panel for it as well.

Toronto Condo Kitchen

Kitchen Dishwasher Panel

iGenie Steam Bath Technology

Very excited about our newest client and their requirement to incorporate the best in residential steam bath technology as part of their upcoming bathroom renovation project with TCC.    As we are big supporters of looking at introducing technology into our renovation projects, so as you can imagine we are thrilled to be installing Mr.Steam's iGenie line of fully-automated, water resistent remote controls that can activate and pre-heat your steam shower from up to 100 feet from within your home.   The remote come in either a black or white option.

iGenie Steam Remotes

You can find more information about this product at http://www.mrsteam.com/

TCC Project Control Book

We create a custom project control book called the 'TCC Project Control Book' for our larger renovation projects to ensure all parties are on the same page when it comes to project execution and deliverables.   We are only one of a few renovation companies in Toronto that implement formal project management methodologies and best practices when it comes to structured delivery of residential home renovation projects.

This approach a triple win for everyone...

Our clients love it, as it keeps them informed and they appreciate the extra effort as enforces our motto around clear communication with our clients.  Our vendors, trades and partners love it as it has specific layouts from the engineers along with architectural drawings with all the appropriate measurements....and we love it as it really helps to mitigate risk and mis-understandings and helps to accelerate project delivery to get our clients enjoying their completed renovation that much sooner.

Here are some pictures from one of our TCC Project Control Books

Toronto Glass Shower Enclosures

We have recently been doing a lot of glass shower enclosures in Toronto over the past couple of years.   These glass showers enclosures make a tonne of sense when it comes to designing a bathroom with a inset tub that provides a nice clean, crisp look with the seamless glass and yet a very functional design to contain water from sneaking out of the shower.

Toronto Glass Shower Tubs

Here is another job completed from last week.  Let us know your thoughts about this project!

Toronto Bathroom Remodel

This recently completed bathroom remodel in Toronto was a nice project to show a transformation from an older style and layout bathroom to a newer more contemporary layout and design.

Amazing to see the end result of a bathroom remodel with new tub, toilet, vanity and flooring can do to open up and brighten up a room...Bravo Team TCC!

Toronto Bathroom Remodel

Custom Furniture Hutch

This custom furniture by Toronto Custom Concepts was designed to provide additional storage in the corners of this room.    Our client wanted to have a stylist custom hutch on each side of room flanking the corners while accenting the centre bay window.   The contrast of light passing thru the white bay window along with the darker finish of the two corner hutch units is very dramatic when you enter the room.

Toronto Cabinet Makers

Each hutch is all wood construction with double 1/2 glass cabinet door fronts to go along with the 3 tiers of glass shelving.   The lower part of the hutch has two full extending pull out drawers with a set of closed panel cabinet below it.

You can see the dark crown moulding integrates nicely with the dark crown moulding in the room to provide a nice continuity effect of bring everything together in the room.  The units also match nicely with the dark hardwood flooring.

Toronto Stone Fireplace Remodel

This stone fireplace renovation project led by Toronto Custom Concepts was part of an initial phase of an entire home renovation project.   The old fireplace was scaled back to its bare bones.  The traditional fireplace mantel, surround, facing and hearth were all carefully removed to allow for the transformational remodel to begin.

The process first step of the fireplace remodel was to plan out the design to plan for a rich textured effect using large stacked stones in a random fitted pattern.   Our clients wanted four staggered wood shelves running vertically up the fireplace.   The stone fireplace was designed with two focused potlights accenting the top wood mantel shelves.  An embedded niche has been incorporated in the centre of the fireplace between the first and second tier of wood mantels.

Toronto Fireplace Renovation

The stone is a mountain cultured stone laid with a staggered alternating light and dark colour pattern.  The mantels are top grade maple and the hearth is a Wiarton natural stone.

The fireplace stones running diagonally up the sloped ceiling provide nice continuity to the eye especially with the massive size of this family room.   The fireplace is 22 feet high to be proportional to the rest of the open concept family room.

The crews did a great job on this one!

Coffered Ceiling Repair Toronto

We recently completed a renovation to a beautiful coffered ceiling in a library that suffered some water damage.  As we have designed and built many custom coffered and moulded ceiling from scratch we took this one knowing full well that the detail wood working and colour in the ceiling needed to be perfect to avoid noticing any renovation work...I would say mission accomplished.

Toronto Coffered Ceilings

Textured Custom Mirror Frame

We did this custom framing job in a basement bathroom remodel to provide an additional accent to one of the bathroom mirrors.  As you can see we incorporated a touch of textured cloth with an embedded LED potlight to provide a complementing accent to the black trim and moulding in the room.  Just another simple detail.  Let us know if you like it...

Chair Affair Toronto

Just a reminder for the early bird ticket price of $150 before August 30 for Furniture Bank's Chair Affair.    It is an annual auction based gala and fundraiser for designers to redesign and repurpose old chairs for auction. 

It is being held at the Toronto International Centre on Airport Road on Oct 30th.

Check out http://www.furniturebank.org/chairaffair/ for more information

Toronto Bathroom Remodel

This Toronto bathroom remodel project included updating this bathroom to a more current style.  We retrofitted the bathroom shower from a wall mounted shower faucet to a new center-mounted rain shower head.  The shower flooring was new random pebble floor tiles.   We love the seamless glass shower with half wall and white quartz jams accented by modern chrome hinges.

Toronto Bathroom Tile Installation

Completing this bathroom tile installation by TCC really showcases a variety of different tile materials, sizes and geometric shapes all coming together to produce a unique shower experience.

Toronto Bathroom Tiles

As you can see, we used long narrow glass tiles running north/south on the back accent wall.  The 45 degree wall that houses the shower hardware fixtures is finished with beautiful porcelain rectangular tiles and the floor is an assembly of square shower tiles.

Custom Shampoo Niches

We create custom shampoo niches for our clients bathroom renovations.   We make our custom shampoo niches out of the same quartz, granite, marble that surrounds that shower jams.

We have even taken measurements of our clients favourite shampoo bottles to ensure a perfect fit.

Check out these pictures of our custom niche work.

Undermount Bathroom Lighting

This undermounted lighting accent which we incorporated underneath a mounted ledge which was running parallel across a large section of the bathroom mirror provides a bountiful amount of additional lighting for our client's master bathroom.

One of the greatest features of this lighting feature is the fact that you do not need to flick-a-switch or turn a dial to get it to turn on.  All that is need is to simply wave or generate some sort of movement underneath it and MAGICALLY it turns on!

Hands-Free Undermount Light Fixture

At Toronto Custom Concepts we are incorporating technology where-ever possible and although we still strive to maintain the aesthetic look and design integrity of technology within our renovations.

Say goodbye to the good ole Clapper :)

Thin Potlights

Super thin pot lights have changed the game when it comes to reducing the minimal size needed for pot light housing above the ceiling.  These super thin LED lights are great in tighter spaces and for small rooms.  Older pot light housing mechanisms were large and clunky.   Our current project using these pots will allow us to provide our clients with additional usage space due to reduced bulkhead sizes and higher ceilings.

Check them out!

Thin Pot Lights

Shower Corner Seating

Seating in the shower just got a whole lot easier with this integrate corner seating area within the glass shower area for one of ours clients.  As you can see the shower seating blends in nicely and does not take up a lot of room.   It blends in nicely with the alternating porcelain tile pattern running vertically up the wall.  Hope you like it!

Shower Seating

Basement Kitchenette

This basement kitchenette built by Toronto Custom Concepts provides this home-owner a great space including an open concept living space with new flooring and a functional kitchenette.  A great renovation project to increase the market value and enjoyment in any home.

Toronto Basement Kitchenette

Bathroom Tub Filler Hardware

This bathroom tub filler is a floor mounted hardware fixture that provides a sleek elegant look to any contemporary bathroom.  It overhangs your standalone bathtub.  We completed this bathroom a couple weeks ago and our client absolutely love it functionality and stylist look.

Let us know what you think about this tub filler or any of our other completed projects!

Bathroom Tub Filler Hardware

Structural Wall Removal

We completed this home renovation to open up a wall that was carrying a load was another great project completed by TCC which included engineering and architectural drawings, city inspections and it included us installing a huge 30 foot structural beam across an entire cross section of this beautiful home in a secluded wooded area in west Toronto.

Once the renovation was complete you can see that the home has been opened up significantly and now provides an open concept thru the kitchen to family room with a brand new island and a row of pot-lights to bring all the spaces together nicely.

Toronto Wall Removal

Hope you like it!

Built-in Dresser

This built-in dresser that we build offer plenty of ample storage for our clients wardrobe collection and yet is hidden away unlike open shelving of a closet.  The two sets of cabinet uppers and the four double pull-out lower drawers offer a nice mix to store a variety of light and heavy articles of clothing...Chalk up another happy client!

Built-in Dresser

Custom Heat Registers

As another personal touch for a custom bathroom renovation we did last month for a high profile client, we included some custom heat registers to match the contemporary style of their new bathroom cabinetry.   The register was lasered from the same porcelain tiles that we laid across their bathroom floors and shower walls.

Sometimes it is the little things that make a world of difference :)

Custom Heat Registers

Built-in Desk

This built-in desk by Toronto Custom Concepts highlights building out a custom desk and storage layout to meet the needs of our clients.  This built-in desk offers upper cabinets doors to hide away office paperwork and files.  It also offers a work area with open storage with wrap-around shelving on the outer right side.  It is finished off with crown moulding and furniture base trim at the bottom.

Hope you like it!

Built-in Office Desk

Glass Shower Renovation

This Oakville glass shower renovation was a recent project that Toronto Custom Concepts had completed.  The scope of the project was a complete bathroom tear-down, redesign and rebuild project.

Here is a picture of the newly installed custom seamless glass shower.
Hope you like the renovation!

Oakville Glass Shower Renovation

Toronto Wallunits

Toronto wall units can be customized and tailored to meet your specific needs and requirements.
We recently worked with one of our well-known clients who wanted to increase their storage and shelving space around their fireplace in one particular room.

Toronto Wallunits

As you can see, Toronto Custom Concepts has delivered a custom wall unit to address the exact needs of our client and it was able to integrate perfectly with their existing fireplace.

Toronto Custom Basement

This custom basement in Toronto was another great project.
We had the opportunity to work with one of our favourite designers and a wonderful client.

This basement renovation provides a new family room,  gas fireplace, new flooring, painted wallunits and double entry doors.

We hope you like the final results of the project!