Tag: renovation in a sentence

‘Incredulous’: Oak Bay homeowner gets anonymous letter criticizing house’s design – BC

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An Oak Bay, BC, homeowner is sharing a somewhat nasty letter he received in the mail this month criticizing the exterior design of his house. Walter van de Rijst told Global News that the anonymous card read, “Shame, shame, shame on you for building such a revolting home in Oak Bay, how did it ever get approved?” He was “incredulous” upon reading it, he said in a Friday interview. “It took me back for a second, just wow. Then I thought, this is really funny. Why would somebody go to this much trouble?” van de Rijst asked, adding that the…

This delightful family home is a masterclass in how to inject period property charm into a new build |

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Award-winning editor Alix Walker never sets out to build a house from scratch. Nor did she ever plan to hire a professional to help with the design, but on moving from north London to Hertfordshire in 2021, the property she and her husband Matt found required so many changes that a builder suggested it would be simpler to pull it down and start again. ‘We got swept up in the idea,’ says Alix, who was expecting her fourth child at the time. Matt, a chiropractor (by trade) turned architect drew out the family’s perfect house design on graph paper. On…