For our inventory of heritage buildings, Clutterbuck Construction is always looking to buy hand hewn log home building materials, or salvage of stone houses like these ruins of a house fire.



We pay a premium for quality cut stone like the facade of this historic stone house.

In our quest for interesting heritage buildings, Clutterbuck Construction sources and buys interesting old schoolhouses and churches for salvage or restoration. Salvation for these unique structures often comes through reconstruction, as these churches are born again as heritage homes with character.

"The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans." - Peter Morville, 2002

Peter's an information architect, not a building architect. He consults to website designers, not homebuilders; but his quotation above is perfectly at home on our website. To his wisdom, we'd add that as construction materials have changed over the years, so have the behaviours of real humans in their homes. Yet, the more things change in the world, the more it feels comfortable in the home to have authentic heritage elements in harmony with modern conveniences. Many people appreciate the traditional craftsmanship of a heritage log home; few want to live in an historic log cabin. Working closely with real humans to custom design, build and renovate their period homes, with the perfect balance of traditional craftsmanship and modern construction, is what Clutterbuck Construction Corporation does.

In England, there's a company called Shape Your Space Ltd. which approaches their specialty of transforming period houses into modern functional homes, as we do here in Canada. Peter Morville, the information architect quoted above, would probably be as impressed with their excellent website design, as we are with their construction sensibilities.

We successfully completed our scheduled work for the season, enclosing the grand porches of the log house on Lake Muskoka. The custom windows of these enclosed porches were designed in four panel modules between posts. This enables the two center windows of each module to open fully against the fixed panels in summertime for maximum air circulation. The following photo shows the open window detail from the interior view.

For a closer look inside this log home under construction on Lake Muskoka,
just click here.

Moody's ready to let his friends get an up close look at the construction details of his new Log House on Lake Muskoka.

You can see from this corner detail exactly what we mean in our tagline:

TRADITIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP | MODERN CONSTRUCTION



For more exterior and interior pictures of Moody's Log House, take a look here.

We're back on the job at Moody's Log House in Gravenhurst, putting the finishing touches on this spectacular lakeside retreat.

If you're in the area and would like to talk to us about another project, just give us a call. We're prepared to take on more work in the neighbourhood, if you've got something special in mind and craftsmanship is important.

It's a wonderful day. Our daughter, Brianna Sage, was born today.

Recognizing the Anglo/Irish Clutterbuck heritage, Brianna is of Celtic origin meaning strong one and Sage is of English origin, characterized by wisdom, prudence and good judgment. And she adds a little spice to the family, which she gets from her mother.

A beautiful little sister for Jeremy, Brianna poked her cute face into the world at 9:05 a.m. Weighing in at a healthy 7 pounds, 12 ounces, Brianna was delivered without a problem by midwives Leslie Niblett and Kay Hanson, RN, who assisted Shelly in a home birth. It was a wonderful experience. My part was easy. I'm in total awe of women, today.

My mom was here to support and share the first day. Shelly's mom, Carol, is arriving soon to take care of her daughter and grandchildren over the next few weeks, when I'll be back on the jobsite. In the meantime, I'm taking some time off to enjoy this time of our lives.

Over the next several weeks, we've got a push on to complete Moody's Log House in Gravenhurst in time for the upcoming cottage season.

We're taking lots of photos as we go, but it's a challenge to post them to the website from cottage country. At the end of these very long workdays, we're enjoying the peace and tranquility here. Hopefully we'll get some pictures posted soon to show you how beautiful it is. Moody's gonna luv it.

Things are really happening around here these days. Right now, I'm doing some interesting heritage building construction and looking forward to the next exciting project.

Recently, our little family moved into an old house that we're renovating. A contractor's dream: it's a work in progress. Fortunately, I managed to get most of the demolition done just in time to move in, if you know what I mean. Since then, we've come a long way toward making this construction site into a home. Details of our home improvements will be posted on this website sooner or later.

I'm getting the truck lettered next week. You've probably seen me driving around town, running from jobsite to jobsite, or in the vicinity of Gravenhurst where we are building a really nice log home. More about that project later.

With new graphics on the truck, you'll be able to recognize me when I'm on the road. My new email address, brian@clutterbuck.ca is painted on the truck because I'm finding that new business comes from email. And, you can always reach me by phone at 905 373 8005.

Please give me a call or email and let me know what you think about this new website. If you've got any good ideas how I should work with digital tools, please let me know. I'm just starting out with this so there is lots to learn. Please be patient with me at the beginning. Some of the links on the right have been set up as space holders for fresh content that is "under construction" as they say in website development. I should be able to handle that.

Under construction sort of describes our life. Shelly and I have a baby under construction, as well. I got that project started last summer and she's been handling all the details over the past seven months. Soon, she'll be expecting me to get more involved with the day to day. I can't wait. Really. We're both really excited about it. I mean he/she. Whichever it is, Jeremy is looking forward to the arrival of his very own baby to take care of, as he's going to be the big brother.

When a job seems impossible, we often get the call.

One such project was a log cabin in a remote location near Parry Sound. It was the dead of Winter and the client needed roof trusses put in place on a log cabin, which was under construction on a cliff.




Despite the 40 degrees below zero temperatures, the biggest problem was that a crane could not get into this remote location until Spring. The problem was not unlike that faced by early pioneers, so we solved it in the same way the pioneers did... we hoisted the trusses into place manually.