HummingbirdHill Homes is a custom homebuilder with offices in Oakville and Muskoka, Ontario. They are dedicated to building spaces that enhance their clients’ capacity to thrive. Founding partners Ian MacFayden and Aaron Miller come from different backgrounds and bring different perspectives to their roles, but they both share a passion for building sustainably, and they both strongly believe that the environments people live and work in have tremendous impact on their health and wellness. They teamed up in 2017 with the shared vision of creating homes that would have the most positive impact possible. “We started HummingbirdHill Homes because we wanted to do our part to positively change the world,” Ian says. “We wanted to build homes that gave our clients a platform to thrive – physically, mentally, economically, and culturally. We wanted to change lives.” Ian personal path to the construction industry was a winding one – back in school, he studied kinesiology and then accounting, but then he realized he didn’t want to work in an office, so he started a carpentry apprenticeship. After getting his Red Seal, he purchased a “tiny little bungalow” in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighborhood, and he took it upon himself to underpin it and add two stories in order to convert it into a duplex. His success on that project led to him getting some requests from others, which he accepted, and before he knew it he was overseeing a team of 10-plus carpenters and had become a business owner. Early on, one of the projects Ian did was for Aaron Miller. Ian recalls “that we just got to talking and we realized we had very similar mindsets.” “We’re both really interested in green building APRIL 2026
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