Principal leads your home from the first sketch to the final key.
Private commissions accepted each year, so yours has our full attention.
Trades and suppliers on your project vetted and bound to confidentiality.
Published, photographed or entered for awards. That holds for every private commission.
The work
A custom home built entirely around you.
Every Versa home is a one-off, designed and built for a single household. We bring architecture, engineering, construction and interiors under one roof, or work alongside the architect and designer you already trust.
Drawn around how you live.
We design with our own studio or build to your architect's drawings. Either way, the plan starts with your household: family, guests, staff and security, each with their own way through the house.
At home on difficult ground.
Hillsides, waterfront and tight city lots across the Lower Mainland. The best sites are rarely the easy ones, and our engineers and site teams know them well.
Private from the first night.
Sightlines, planting, gates and arrival are resolved with your security lead before a foundation is poured, so the house is private from the day you move in.
Made by hand, made to last.
Millwork, stone and metal from workshops we have trusted for years, finished to a standard you can feel with your eyes closed. That holds in every room, including the ones few guests will ever see.
Often in the brief
Whatever your life asks of a house.
These are the requests we hear most from private clients. Each is designed in from the first drawing and built by specialists we have worked with before, never added on at the end.
Integrated security
Perimeter, access and surveillance planned with your security team, then built into the fabric of the house so none of it shows.
Staff and guest quarters
Separate entrances, routes and living space for the people who run the house and the people who visit, so your own rooms stay your own.
Wellness and spa
Pools, gyms, treatment rooms, saunas and cold plunges, engineered like a private club and finished like the rest of your home.
Screening rooms
Cinema-grade picture and sound in an acoustically isolated room, calibrated by specialists who equip professional theatres.
Recording studios
Isolated, tuned rooms for writing, tracking or broadcast, so the work can happen at home without the house hearing it.
Car galleries
Climate-controlled display and storage with turntables, lifts and a private arrival, whether for four cars or forty.
Wine rooms
Cellars and tasting rooms held at precise temperature and humidity, with joinery made for your collection and not from a catalogue.
Safe rooms
A protected room and a clear route to it, planned with your security lead from the first drawing, so your family is never more than moments from safety.
Estate landscaping
Mature planting, drives, water and outbuildings laid out across the whole property, so privacy comes from the land and not from fences.
If what you need is not on this list, that is usually a good reason to call.
Request a private introductionHow we work
You have enough to manage. Your house should not be on the list.
A small senior team runs the whole project and answers to the people you already rely on. It follows our building process, with four layers of protection in place before anyone breaks ground.
One principal, start to finish.
The person you meet first runs your project to the last day. Nothing is handed down to a junior team once the contract is signed.
We work with your people.
Business manager, family office, counsel, security lead, architect, designer. We take direction from whoever you nominate, so you are only asked the questions that need you.
Open books, no surprises.
Budget and timeline are set honestly at the start and reported at fixed intervals, in a form your advisers can audit line by line.
A closed, vetted team.
Every trade and supplier on a private commission is screened and bound to confidentiality before seeing a drawing. The same crews have built with us for years.
A quiet site.
No signage, no photography on site and screening from the road. Controlled access keeps visits to the people who need to be there, and your neighbours learn nothing from us.
Your home stays yours.
We do not photograph, publish or enter a private commission for awards, and our trades are bound to the same terms. Contracts can run through your trust or company.
How an engagement runs
Four stages. One point of contact.
Introduction
By referral or private request. We sign your confidentiality agreement before the first conversation, not after it.
Brief and site
We learn how you live, walk the land with you or your representative, and agree budget and schedule before design begins.
Design and build
One principal leads a closed team from first sketch to final key. You see progress when and how you choose, wherever you are in the world.
Handover and care
You walk into a finished home that works on day one, covered by our home warranty, and the same team stays on call.
In confidence
What private clients tell each other.
Private clients do not give public testimonials. They do take calls. References are introduced privately, with their consent, once we have met.
I was on tour for most of the build. I came home to exactly the house we drew, and not a word about it anywhere.
My business manager dealt with them week to week. The only decisions that reached me were the ones nobody else could make.
We audit every project our principals take on. On this one the final number matched the first, and so did the date.
A private introduction
Begin with a conversation. It goes no further.
Tell us how to reach you or the person who represents you. One principal reads every request and replies personally, and we sign your confidentiality agreement before we talk.
Feel free to use an alias, or to give your representative's details in place of your own.