Laneway & Garden Suite Learning Day
Thinking about a laneway home, garden suite, granny flat, or any kind of backyard dwelling?
There are a lot of rules and regulations to wrap your head around. Join the experts at our new mini stage, located in the Backyard Builds zone, for daily presentations.
Thursday, March 12 — Theme Day at the Main Stage
It’s a full day of presentations, networking, and expert advice all about building your own laneway home, garden suite or backyard home. Before you start building that Pinterest board of super-cool features and small-space ideas, join us for a day of groundbreaking education featuring the industry’s best experts on laneway and garden suites.
Enbridge Main Stage presentation topics will include:
- Construction of the Future: How Canadians are using prefab and modular construction to build better, faster, and cheaper
- HST and Laneway Housing: All about rebates
- Close, But Not Too Close: How families are finding solutions with backyard homes in Ontario
- Homeowner panel: A discussion with homeowners who have recently built their own suite – good, bad, and ugly stories from the trenches.
- Laneway & Garden Suites Networking: Meet experts and homeowners who have been there, done that
All presentations and networking are included with your show ticket.
Plus: The National Home Show presents six model suites purpose-built for backyard living—open for tours every day of the show.
Backyard Builds: Tour Six Model Suites
Small-space inspiration! Step inside six model suites that show you the possibilities for creating a separate, self-contained living space in your backyard. We’re thrilled to invite you to tour these model suites from Ontario’s best builders:
- Leisure Suites
- Red Shed
- Ilo
- Royal Homes
- Quantum Homes
- Newfore
