Matrix Landscaping designs and builds residential and commercial properties across Amherstburg, Ontario — from the heritage homes along Dalhousie and Ramsay to the riverfront lots at Edgewater and Pointe West, and out through Anderdon and Malden to McGregor and River Canard.
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Amherstburg has better housing stock than anywhere else in the county, and it’s unforgiving. A century home on Dalhousie with the wrong stone out front looks wrong forever, and a new build on Pointe West with a builder-grade strip of sod looks unfinished next to its neighbours. We design to the property instead of to a catalogue: materials that suit the house, grades that actually work, and planting that looks deliberate in twenty years rather than crowded in five. Design, hardscape, grading, sod, planting, and irrigation, all with our own crews on one quote.
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Lakefront lots come with problems inland properties never see: wind that shreds the wrong plantings, erosion at the grade break, and a view you can’t block with the usual privacy screening. We design around all three.
When the house is the nicest one on the street, the landscape has to hold up its end. We build finished properties — full design, quality stone, mature plant material, and detailing that still looks intentional in year ten.
Builders leave you a graded lot and a pile of clay. We take it from bare dirt to finished: proper grading and drainage first, then hardscape, then sod and planting, in the right order so nothing gets torn up twice.
Larger lots need a plan that concentrates the effort where you actually live and keeps the rest low-maintenance. We design the zone around the house properly and handle the acreage sensibly.
Older properties usually have good bones and thirty years of accumulated decisions. We work out what’s worth keeping, take out what’s failing, and rebuild the rest so it looks like it was always meant to be that way.
Plazas, offices, condos, and multi-unit properties get the same design and build process, scoped for traffic and durability instead of curb appeal alone.
Every Matrix project starts with a design and a fixed number — not a rough verbal and a surprise invoice. Below is the full scope we handle in-house. Most projects use four or five of these, and they all get sequenced so nothing gets built twice.
We’re in Belle River, which is about forty-five minutes out. That’s the longest run in our service area, so we’re honest about how we handle it: Amherstburg projects get booked in consecutive-day blocks with the crew on site until the build is finished. We don’t take an Amherstburg job and then service it in half-days around closer work. If the timing doesn’t suit you, we’ll say so before you’re committed.
That’s most of what makes Amherstburg work different. The town has genuine nineteenth-century housing stock along Dalhousie, Ramsay, and the streets off Navy Yard Park, and it’s the front yard that decides whether a restoration reads as authentic or as a renovation. Modern grey rectangular pavers and a curved bed of ornamental grasses will fight a Georgian or Victorian facade every time. We work with materials, proportions, and plant palettes that suit the age of the house — and if the property sits in a heritage conservation district, we’ll flag what’s likely to need town approval before you’re already committed to a design.
It can be, and it matters more than people expect. Parts of Anderdon sit on limestone bedrock close to surface — the old Anderdon quarries were there for a reason. That affects how deep you can practically excavate for footings, wall bases, and posts, and it’s the kind of thing that turns into a change order if nobody checked first. Out through Malden toward Big Creek and Holiday Beach you get the opposite problem: low, wet, marsh-adjacent ground where drainage has to be solved before anything gets built on top. We test before we quote rather than after.
Design-build projects at Matrix start at $5,000. The number moves with square footage, material selection, how much grading and drainage work the property needs, and whether we’re building from a bare lot or working around what’s already there. You get a fixed quote off approved drawings before anything starts. We’re not the cheapest option in Essex County and we’d rather say that upfront than waste your afternoon.
Further than most people think. Build season runs April through November and the calendar fills over the winter. If you want a patio finished for July, the design conversation should happen in January or February. Fall is the better time to start a design anyway — we can walk the property, see how it actually drains, and have drawings approved before the spring rush.
