Share Herman Miller turned to designers Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf to design a totally new kind of chair. Chadwick’s and Stumpf’s previous collaboration had produced the groundbreaking Equa chair. The two designers began this development process with a clean slate, with no assumptions about form or material, but with some strong convictions about what [...]
Share You’ve heard the terms “xeriscaping,” but what does it really mean and how can you make it work in your garden? One of Canada’s most influential gardening experts, Marjorie Harris, calls xeriscaping “the gardening style of the twenty-first century.” Forget the high-maintenance gardens of the past, filled with imported exotics and water-hogging plants; this [...]
Share Government-imposed costs on new single-detached houses in Calgary remain among the lowest across the country as a percentage of the selling price. The latest numbers, released in a report by Altus Group Economic Consulting, commissioned for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, reveal that Calgarians pay 7.9% of the cost of their new home to [...]
Share Sometimes it’s diverting to live vicariously. The lobby at the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto, is a bit rough right now – it mostly consists of exposed pipes, heating ducts and concrete – but it doesn’t take much imagination to envision the scene when the hotel opens about a year from now, with guests strolling through and [...]
Share Low mortgage rates and more affordable homes in many markets are pushing first-time home buyers to enter the market in droves, Canadian real-estate experts say. Phil Soper, president and chief executive of Brookfield Real Estate Services, said that when the Canadian housing market was hot, bidding wars forced many buyers to put in offers [...]
Share Ottawa, Ontario, February 2, 2009… The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue and Minister John Baird, Canada’s Minister of Infrastructure, Transportation and Communities and Member of Parliament for Ottawa West – Nepean, highlighted key initiatives from Budget 2009: Canada’s Economic Action Plan that will benefit first-time home buyers. Canada’s Economic Action Plan supports [...]
Today, I was looking around at some condominiums in Toronto. Ranging from $250,00 to $400,000 I was a bit shocked at one my price range could get me. I decided then what would a multi-million dollar house get me. Maybe, some more backyard? Maybe even a robot that cooks at my command!
Well I found my multi-million dollar home, it even comes with a name! Well it better for $15 million U.S. “Chateau Saisons” is located in Colorado. The property has 53 acres, I’d buy a couple horses (or maybe a couple Ferrari’s) if I had that many acres.
