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Emerald Park
2 Park Bay $519,000 MLS®524797
Fully developed & updated 5 bedrm home on a large landscaped lot!
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Buena Vista
641WoodlandAvenue $459,900 MLS®524975
Beautifully updated 4 bedrm 1710 sq ft bungalow, just blocks to the beach.
The Balfour
#202-2305VictoriaAvenue $419,900 MLS®525271
Professionally reno’d 1586 sq ft 2 bed + den condo. Granite, hardwoods + more!”
Pilot Butte Acreage
131 Rock Pointe Place $829,900 MLS®530412
Custom 2013 built walkout on 4.86 acres! Acacia hardwoods & high end finishes.
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Lakeridge
80 Hanley Crescent $998,000 MLS® 523451
Fabulous 4 bedrm walkout on 6 acres. High end finishes & quad garage!
4818Webster Crescent $399,900 MLS®530113
Well kept & fully developed 5 bedroom bungalow. Hardwoods, C/Air + more! REG00204851_1_1
Create a room with a view Top-hung doors bring nature inside REBECCA KEILLOR FOR VANCOUVER SUN As people are craving more connection with the outside world from inside their homes, doors are getting in the way. They’re necessary of course; we need them to access our homes, for warmth and protection, but we just don’t want to see them. “There’s a trend toward large glazed areas in houses and once people have become familiar with the pleasures of bringing these doors in ... they aren’t going to want to go back and live in a cave, or have a port hole,” says Dal Brickenden, whose company, Slung Doors, specializes in large-leaf hung and sliding doors, installing them everywhere from New York to Idaho. There is an ongoing tug of war, says Brickenden, between a desire to have low energy inputs to heat and cool buildings, and provide maximum exposure to the outdoors. As we are moving into smaller spaces, with more people living in condos and the size of these condos getting smaller all the time, Brickenden says putting in a patio door with too many panels (and dividers) can make people feel like they’re living in a honeycomb, or looking out at their view through a picket fence.
SLUNG DOORS
A top-hung sliding door by Slung Doors for a Salt Spring, B.C., residence allows for openings up to 24 metres wide. To alleviate this, Slung offers large glass door panels that are hung from the ceiling, carrying their weight on a welded steel core frame, which is then covered in wood or aluminum, depending on your interior preference. “If you’re trying to create a sense of space, you need to have a flush or integrated (door) sill,” says Brickenden. “A flush sill just means at the floor level nothing extends above the finished floor.” If it’s a sill 10 centimetres or smaller, your eye will skip over it, says Brickenden, but much more will interrupt your sight line. To achieve the flush sill outside, says Brickenden, the walking surfaces of pati-
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Cactus Club Coal Harbour with its automated terrace doors by New Westminster, B.C., company Slung Doors. os or balconies can be raised to the level of the door but it must have an adequate drainage system. Using doors to maximize
your sense of space also applies to interior doors as well, says Chad Falkenberg of Falken Reynolds Interiors.
“It’s always fascinating going into a condo building that’s about 20 years old and you think, ‘Wow, people really lived and functioned differently in their daily life.’ I think the biggest change is that we used to live in a lot of small rooms and now we want to live in one big room and that’s because our lifestyle is a lot more casual, a lot less formal,” says Falkenberg. To achieve this open effect, Falkenberg says his company works with Canadian hardware suppliers such as Richelieu and C.R. Laurence to figure out which door applications will work best in a space. “We’re doing a project right now in Yaletown with giant floor-to-ceiling glass doors so when they’re open
it feels like the room and the bathroom continue on and when they’re closed the glass goes all the way up to the ceiling. “There’s not even a frame around the glass so it’s like a floating panel,” he says. Floor-to-ceiling applications are the way to achieve a greater sense of space in any place, says Falkenberg, but particularly in smaller spaces. “A lot of people in smaller spaces like condos tend to use smaller things,” he says. “So smaller doors, maybe even smaller pieces of furniture, and what we’ve found is that that makes the space feel even smaller. So if we can use larger doors that will go all the way to the ceiling, that helps make a small space feel bigger because there (are fewer) lines and trim pieces and all of those things.” A n o t h e r i n e x p e n s ive trick, says Falkenberg, is to paint the doors of your wardrobes the same colour as the walls and go for doors that have as little detail as possible on them. “So when they’ re all closed it just feels like it’s a big wall,” Falkenberg says. Industrial-style doors have also found favour in Vancouver, says Union Wood Co. owner Craig Pearce, who gets regular requests for interior barn-style doors. “People seem to be liking these because they are a fun and interesting way to add some texture to a room,” he says. “We build them to suit and it is simple to co-ordinate the materials and hardware to match the rest of the space.”
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Tues. - Thurs. 1-3 & 6-8 • Sundays 1-5 • 6 appliances ONLY $99! • Luxury Finishes • Blinds $250 • 903 sq. ft. - 1065 sq. ft. • 2 Bedroom Units • 1 & 2 Baths • Hardwood & Porcelain Tile • Quartz Countertops • Undermount Sinks • Clubhouse with Saltwater pool and hot tub • Billiards room, exercise room WI-FI Lounge • Walnut doors and trim, floating island, and 9’ ceilings • Underground Parking
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Where she scored her first goal No matter where you live in Harbour Landing, you’ll only ever be a few steps away from our many parks and pathways. With 120 acres of green space, you’ll always find the perfect place to play.
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