Vancouver · West Side
Custom Home Builder in Vancouver
Architect-driven custom homes and renovations for Vancouver’s west side, from a builder of forty years.
An established builder, building in Vancouver
GD Nielsen Homes is an architect-driven custom home builder, building across the Lower Mainland since 1986 from our North Shore base. We bring the same complex-site competence and build-to-the-drawings discipline to Vancouver.
Building on Vancouver’s west side
Vancouver’s custom-home market is the west side, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy, Dunbar, Point Grey and Southlands, where mature, tree-lined lots and established streets set the context for a new house. The City of Vancouver runs its own permit and design process, and many west-side streets carry character-retention expectations that shape what a replacement home can be. We have built in Kerrisdale, and the deliberate, drawing-first way we work suits the scrutiny these neighbourhoods invite.
Renovations and character homes
Much of the west side’s housing stock is worth keeping and worth improving, character-home additions, whole-home reconfigurations and award-grade kitchens. We treat a renovation as the harder discipline it is: working around structure and detail the house already established, to a standard it already set.
Working with your architect
Most of these homes began on someone else’s drawings, an architect’s, a designer’s. We don’t design. We build, faithfully, for the people who do. Your drawings are the brief, and your relationship with the client stays yours.
We never substitute a specified product or alter a detail without your sign-off. When a budget needs to move, we look for it in what stays hidden, framing, sequencing, mechanicals, so the money lands where the design lives: the millwork, the stone, the glazing, the light. Every option comes to the design team first.
We credit the architect and designer on every project they belong to.
Warranty and assurance
Every home is covered by BC’s 2-5-10 New Home Warranty, two years on materials and labour, five on the building envelope, ten on the structure, backed by a licensed third-party insurer. GD Nielsen is a Licensed Residential Builder, and our Avid Customer Choice recognition reflects a 100% client recommendation rate. The lived experience of the build is the part we’re judged on, and the part we protect.
Common questions
Do you build custom homes in Vancouver?
Yes, GD Nielsen Homes builds architect-driven custom homes and renovations on Vancouver’s west side from our North Shore base. Most of our documented work is in West and North Vancouver, and we have built in Kerrisdale.
Do you work with our architect?
We build for the people who design, to your drawings, with no in-house design studio competing for the work, and we credit you on the project.
Is the home covered by warranty?
Yes, BC’s 2-5-10 New Home Warranty, backed by a licensed third-party insurer, and we are a Licensed Residential Builder.
