1966
The first houses
Three Maida brothers begin building bespoke homes in Mississauga, on the rule that the client gets a price and a date on paper first.
Who we are
Who you actually work with.
Georgian is a design-build studio in Toronto, keeping architecture, interior design and construction under one roof and on one contract. Our designers draw the house, our estimators price what they drew, and our project managers build it with trades who have been on our sites for decades. There is no handoff, and no one else to blame.
It is led by Michelle Mawby, a Registered Interior Designer with ARIDO who runs the design studio, and Gene Maida, President, MBA, who has been on Georgian sites for close to sixty years. Between them they see every drawing, every price and every contract before it reaches you.
The studio is small on purpose. We take on a limited number of projects each year, so the people you meet in the first conversation are the people still there at the final walkthrough.
1966
Building since
5,200
Homes delivered
BCIN
Certified № 109099
ARIDO
Registered designers
Principal Designer · Registered Interior Designer, ARIDO
Registered Interior Designer, ARIDO · Former CTV resident design expert
Michelle Mawby
Leads the in-house design studio, from first floor plan to the last cabinet pull. She specifies what wears beautifully over twenty years rather than what photographs well this season, and she is in the room when the drawings get priced.
A Registered Interior Designer with ARIDO, and formerly CTV's resident design expert, she has spent her career translating how families actually live into plans that hold up on site.
Leadership
President · MBA
Gene Maida
Youngest of the three brothers who founded Georgian, and on site in some capacity for nearly sixty years. He can price a house by walking it, and he still reviews every contract before it goes to a client.
What he protects most carefully is the company's habit of saying no: to sites that will not work, to scopes that do not match a budget, and to promises that have not been written down.
"Houses should outlive the people who build them."
How we work
Four things we commit to.
01
One team, one contract
Architecture, interiors and construction share one office and one payroll. Nothing is lost in a handoff, because there is not one.
02
Priced before it is promised
Every project is costed in detail and validated against an independent third-party estimate, then presented to you as one fixed price before it becomes your contract.
03
The same crews, project after project
Our framers, masons, millworkers and mechanical trades have worked to our standards for decades. Quality becomes a habit rather than an inspection.
04
Written down, then built
Schedules, selections and change orders all exist on paper, so you can see where the project and the number stand at any point.
The studio and the trades
We draw it. We build it.
Designers, estimators, project managers and site supervisors sit in one office and work on the same small number of projects. Every vendor on your build has been on our sites for years, and we price their work rather than accepting a number and passing it along.
It is the reason we can commit to a price and a date early, and the reason the answer to a question on site takes minutes rather than a week of emails.
In house
Architecture, interiors, estimating and construction
Decades
Average tenure of our core trade partners
Limited
Number of projects accepted each year
Heritage
1966 to today
Three generations. One rule.
1980s
Across the GTA
Work spreads from Mississauga through Toronto, York Region and Simcoe County, and the trade relationships that still build our homes begin.
2000s
The second generation
The next generation of the family takes over day-to-day management, and design moves in house alongside construction.
2020
The Feasibility Study
Sixty years of pre-construction judgement is formalised into a document clients can hold: plans, elevations, renderings, schedule and priced specifications.
2020
The Georgian Shield
The protection already built into a Georgian contract is written down and named: when something unforeseen is uncovered on site, the cost is ours to absorb, not yours to pay.
Today
Third generation
A deliberately small studio taking a limited number of custom homes and major renovations each year, still run by the family.
Where we work
On site the same day.
Toronto and the surrounding Greater Toronto Area, including Oakville, Mississauga, Vaughan, King City, Aurora, Newmarket and Richmond Hill, plus Simcoe County and the Georgian Bay and Collingwood area.
Sixty years in these municipalities means we know the committees, the inspectors and the by-laws well enough to tell you early what a property will and will not allow. If your site sits outside that radius, we will say honestly whether we can service it well.
