Onni’s latest project in Port Coquitlam, The Shaughnessy on Lions Park, offers brand-new tower homes with never-before-seen views in a central Metro Vancouver location. ›› p.4
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Healthy increase in Metro Vancouver starts TRICIA LESLIE
The Creative Design Works interior designer Doris Wutzke shows a Twilightthemed room at Morningstar Homes’ South Pointe in Delta. Rob Newell photo
Create a room kids will love Personalizing children’s rooms can be simple and easy to re-do MAGGIE CALLOWAY A bedroom is important to any child. It’s a refuge: a retreat from the sometimescruel world outside; a place that is safe, familiar and comforting. Designing a child’s room with a theme can be tricky in any instance, especially given the fact that interests can change from month to month. Finding a balance between the
changing interests of the child, and the speed with which they change from child to tween to teenager, can be addressed. Redesigning the room every few years can be avoided by following a few simple rules that will save both sanity and the budget. Instead of including all things sports into the son’s room, or fairy princesses into the daughter’s space, introducing wall graphics is a great solution. Readily available at paint and wallpaper shops and at home improvement stores, these graphics are easy to apply and, most important, easy to remove without damage to the wall.
Kids love colour. Colour can easily be introduced into a child’s room tastefully – without feeling like you have fallen into a pink cupcake. Pink walls, carpet, bedspread and furniture are more than a little limiting as the little girl becomes older. Pink and white wallpaper on a couple of walls with an easily replaced pink bedspread and pillows gives a nod to your child’s girly side, but allows you to move the room along with the years. Mae Saffron, co-owner of The Creative CONTINUED ON P.2
Housing starts in Metro Vancouver showed significant increases last month, to the tune of a year-over-year jump of 150 per cent, reports the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. In the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area in May, 1,173 starts were recorded, and CMHC notes the single-family housing market, especially, is performing well and “overall new housing construction is in line with key economic indicators.” In the Abbotsford CMA, starts climbed 159 per cent compared to the same time last year. CMHC senior market analyst Robyn Adamache says construction of Peter Simpson single-detached homes during the first five month of the year has improved and is currently above the 10year historic average. While the multiple-unit sector is showing improvement, the current level of starts is below the 10-year average, Adamache notes. “Most housing market indicators suggest that the new home construction market is in balanced conditions this year,” she says. Nationally, housing starts decreased in both the single and the multiple sectors, CMHC reports. But in Metro Vancouver, local builders remain busy with new home construction. Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association president and CEO Peter Simpson notes that starts are up significantly locally, for both the month and the year. “A lot of builders are optimistic about the future. They’re launching many new projects,” Simpson says. He conducted an e-mail survey last week that polled GVHBA builders to see what CONTINUED ON P.2
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A Falcon Hill bedroom is tastefully decorated with easy-to-remove flowers.
A Portrait Homes Silver Ridge kid’s bedroom features a custom stick-on.
Create a haven
“We come up with a
Doris Wutzke with an organizational peg board in a boy’s room at a Morningstar showhome at South Pointe.
fictitious family” Rob Newell photo
Off the front: “We
want to inspire people to do this on their own.” – Doris
Wutzke, interior designer A youngster’s room at ParkLane’s Bedford Landing is bright and colourful.
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local developers are experiencing. “Every single response was extremely optimistic,” Simpson says, adding that local builders are reporting back success stories in a broad range of home types, whether it’s single-family homes, highrises, townhomes or condos. One builder notes he’s starting four new townhome developments, says Simpson. “If you’re in the market for a new home, (right now) is a great opportunity to see what is available,” he says. “You’re seeing the strength of the market at all ends of the market, from first-time homebuyers to the luxury, high-end side.” The busy Metro Vancouver market is not only good for builders. In 2010, the residential construction industry – in Metro Vancouver alone – is expected to put $7.3 billion in construction value into the economy, says Simpson. That will create about 64,800 full-time jobs and generate $3.3 billion in wages. “That’s good news for everybody,” Simpson says. “If we continue to have strong results, those numbers may be higher by the end of the year.”
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DesignWorks, with her associate Doris Wutzke, have loads of experience putting together children’s rooms, as a large part of the company’s business is designing showhomes for new home developments throughout Metro Vancouver. Before starting to design an interior for a new showhome, Saffron says she and Wutzke think about who will be living in the home. “For (Morningstar’s South Pointe), Doris and I came up with a fictitious family who live in this home, then we came up with a colour theme,” Saffron says. She and Wutzke look at the ages of the fictitious children, and think about what kids of that age would be into, and how they can design their bedrooms to reflect their interests. A major consideration when designing for a corporate client, Wutzke notes, is to ensure the homebuyers would be able to re-create what they liked about the children’s rooms in the showhome. “We want to inspire people to do this on their own if they didn’t want to hire a designer. We want to make these kids rooms realistic, so families can imagine themselves living in the rooms,” says Wutzke. For example, one bedroom in Morningstar Homes’ South Pointe development in Delta is designed for a tween/teen girl, about 13 years old, in a Twilight-inspired black, red and white theme. Keeping the furniture white and basic, an artist painted Twilight graphics on a stripe
Left, a child’s bedroom in a ParkLane showhome at Bedford Landing; above, a boy’s room at Morningstar’s Pepin Brook.
on the wall, while a black Goth chandelier gives a nod to that side of the popular vampire saga. Red accents incorporate all the Twilight colours without the room being over-the-top, Saffron says. “Not only do we try to match the child’s activities but their interests,” Saffron says. “We are always very conscious, when designing each room, that it can be easily changed – if this room, for instance is needed for another purpose, the Twilight graphic is gone with a coat of paint.” Another room at South Pointe, designed for a boy, features a peg board that was bought at Home Depot, then painted and framed to make a nice-looking and efficient organizer. Adding clips – available everywhere – created vertical storage, which is great for sports equipment. Saffron notes that one easy design element that anyone can do to personalize a room is to take family photos – from family events or soccer or hockey games, etc. – and photocopy them, blow them up and put them in frames. “Kids love these in their rooms. It’s inexpensive art work, and they are easily changed
as the child becomes older or (gets) into something new.” At ParkLane Homes, the company’s inhouse design team attempts to inspire home purchasers with ideas about how their new homes can be decorated; they also imagine a fictional family that could live in the home: how many kids in the family, their ages and their interests. “This provides a clear picture for how each room should be decorated,” says ParkLane marketing manager Yosh Kasahara. He notes that ParkLane tries to keep the children’s rooms looking clean, bright and uncluttered – a dream that most parents constantly fight to achieve. “We get lots of positive comments on the children’s rooms in our showhomes ... but the best compliment that we can receive is when a young child sees a room for the first time and immediately says, ‘I want this one!’” Kasahara says. As the children grow up and eventually, leave the home, it is easy to make these rooms into dens or studies, guest rooms or yoga studios, a crafts room, a fitness area, or a library.
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Onni’s The Shaughnessy on Lions Park is a 26-storey Port Coquitlam highrise that will offer unprecedented views. Rob Newell photo
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Onni’s The Shaughnessy on Lions Park overlooks the green space it is named for. Transportation and nature trails are nearby. Rob Newell photos
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