design

Building a House

November 18, 2017 — Leave a comment

Journalizing the Build

Oct 28 to Nov 17, 2017

It’s been awhile since I posted pictures of the build as we have been quite busy with other activities. Jim is playing hockey now here twice a week and golfing and I have joined two artist groups and have been participating is some workshops. We are also taking in some of the events and activities on the island along with choosing and purchasing materials for the house. I have compiled some pictures of the progression of the build into a slide show.

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I have also put together some random pictures from around the site. It’s all coming together fairly quick even though we have had a bit of rain.

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The Final Design

May 7, 2017 — Leave a comment

The design is finally coming together after months of emails, phone calls and a few meetings with the designer and builder.  Most of the bugs that needed to be ironed out were around ensuring compliance with the new earthquake codes.  We are pretty happy with the end result.

The next step – the designer will take it to working plans. At this point in time we are looking at starting the build in August with an anticipated move-in date sometime in February. It’s so good that it’s all starting to come together!

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Upper Level Floor Plan

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Lower Level Floor Plan

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House plans & Walk thru

February 28, 2017 — Leave a comment

Posted by Wanda

We are starting to work with the builder and the designer to finalize plans for the new house.  We are working toward a potential start date of July 2017.   It’s all pretty exciting and kind of scary as we have never lived any place but Regina Sask!

Below is a Youtube link to an animated walk thru of the plans which Wanda put together using Home Design Suite Software (thanks for the tip Kyla!)

Animated walk thru upper level – Orca View

Animated walk thru lower level – Orca View

I have also uploaded some preliminary plans which we are still fine tuning.

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Upper level floor plan

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Lower level floor plan

“The House”

July 16, 2016 — Leave a comment

Posted by Wanda and Jim

We just spent a considerable amount of time looking into the type of house we would like to build on a lot on Vancouver Island. We came up with a very high level plan which would probably work well on this property. We are hoping to keep the square footage down to below 2500 square ft. and we would like to have a main floor level entry from the garage on the upper level of the lot. Here’s what we came up with.

Coming from “flat land” Saskatchewan we do however worry about living on a sloped lot, but having a sweeping view of the ocean (Stuart Channel) makes it a compromise I believe we could probably live with.

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We also would like to build a suite with kitchenette in the lower level to accommodate all the visitors we hope to be getting from Saskatchewan, Alberta and beyond. 🙂 Yes, and what a great holiday for our family and friends! We will supply the accommodations and a car for you to explore the Island, what a great deal! (More about that later, you might notice it becoming a bit of a reoccurring theme in our future postings!)