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Oakville family finally gets the interior they’ve always wanted BY PHILLIPA RISPIN PHOTOGRAPHY: KIM JEFFERY STYLING: SYLVIA PORTER
HERE’S AN UNUSUAL DILEMMA: people not needing a larger home and not looking to downsize, finding a place that’s modest by Canadian standards, and wondering “How are we going to fill this?” The fact that Rebecca Travis and Tim Prince and their young son were coming to Oakville from England explains it: affordable dwellings in London and environs tend to be much smaller than their counterparts in Canada. The family arrived from London, with no furniture, in 2012. They looked around and found this property, with a builder-basic interior, in the West Oak Trails area. •
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