Denman Island Treasure

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Denman Island Treasure

A dream awaits you! 12 acres of sunny tranquility and privacy, just for you, on serene Denman Island. The property enjoys some forest areas, plus easy care and creative landscaping around the home. South/southwest/west exposures ensure year round/all day sun, and extensive patio areas expand summer living pleasures. Fronting on a marsh, a bird sanctuary, the “lake” here allows for canoeing the bends in the marsh…a very pleasing past-time.

denman island treasure

denman island

The home is new, and you have time to choose finishes, here! Radiant infloor heat, custom bathroom fixtures (you’ll love the shower and the tub in the master ensuite!), open plan kitchen/dining (top of the line appliances), custom built-in cabinetry for storage, pantry, dramatic living with vaulted ceiling, stairs from the formal entry/foyer to the master “suite”, and stairs from the family room to the children’s “wing”. A climbing wall feature from the family room, plus a terrific work-out exercise space.

This space has to be seen to be appreciated…

Easy access to the patio areas/barbecue space, from all principal rooms. This home could be featured in Dwell Magazine, and offers that clean-lined simplicity of the best of “west coast contemporary” Zen/Scandanavian influenced design. European windows, doors, everything chosen of very fine quality. The final finishing choices can be yours!

An amazing “shop” on the property, separately sited from the home. It holds a state of the art fully computerized woodworking business, at the moment. If desired, a buyer could offer on the equipment as well. The owner is a custom cabinet designer/creator, and his work is found in the very best homes on the Lower Mainland/in Whistler. He is able to work from home, on Denman. This space has to be seen to be appreciated…

…the word “shop” does not describe it, at all.

Maple Bay

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Oceanfront Enchantment

Spectacular ocean vistas; true panoramic views. Beach for walking/beachcombing, plus a beautiful dock—keep your boat at home.

oceanfront real estate

oceanfront

Home is “as new” (built in 2005), with great room concept for living, den, dining, and custom kitchen (all with sensational views). Master/ensuite “wing”, with exercise room, spacious walk-in closet. Elegant office, with access to private deck and garden vistas. Guest wing offers two ensuite bed sitting rooms, with access to oceanfront and to English Country garden charms

Paddys Point Oceanfront

Wikipedia (on Maple Bay)

Maple Bay is a picturesque seaside community located in the Cowichan Valley of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. A narrow inlet and surrounded by smooth, pebbled beaches, Maple Bay is home to marine activity all year round.
The sheltered haven of Maple Bay is situated halfway up Sansum Narrows, which separates Vancouver Island from Saltspring Island, the largest and nearest of the southern Gulf Islands.

Maple Bay is serviced by floatplane, Salt Spring Air and Harbour Air that fly regular scheduled flights several times a day from Maple Bay Marina yaq, to Vancouver hrb, Vancouver yvr, Ganges Salt Spring Island and the Gulf Islands.
There are three commercial marinas, a public dock, as well as the Maple Bay Yacht Club and the Maple Bay Rowing Club.Maple Bay Marina is replacing many older boat sheds with new style, fire resistant Yacht Enclosures, creating one the safest and most environmentally responsible marinas in British Columbia.

Wonderful lowbank oceanfront point of land, known to sailors as “Paddy’s Point“, in beautiful Maple Bay (on Vancouver Island). There is 2000+ ft of oceanfront here, with coves and beaches, & with year round moorage potential at the dock.

Maple Bay

Maple Bay


Exposures are east, south, & west, and provide sunrises & sunsets year round.

There is an appealing old style summer cottage circa 1912 era, on the property, plus an older boathouse structure, with a suite above.

The property is almost 10 acres and is a mix of meadow, & pristine old growth coastal forest consisting of magical Cedar groves, Fir, Hemlock, Maple, Alder, & majestic stands of mature Arbutus & Garry Oak. Walk the mossy trails created in the 1920?s & 1930?s. This is totally unspoiled land!

This property has been in the same family since 1900, used only as their summer place, so is effectively “untouched”, and awaits your development ideas.

Marketing Real Estate in “Interesting Times”

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November 2010 | Gulf Islands Real Estate Market Analysis

Interesting times we live in!

Wasn’t that the Chinese Curse?

I think, though, that change offers opportunity…

Check out my radio show podcast and listen to my interview with “Carolina George.”

George, originally from Ontario, now lives in North Carolina, and is a major player in the digital post-internet world we now all inhabit.

As a hybrid being, with a foot in the 20th Century and another in the beginnings of the “real” 21st Century, I feel like my role might be as an interpreter between two beings: BG (Before Google) and AG (After Google).

A divide that is so profound that there is really no true meeting ground.

The historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a book, in the 1970s, bringing to life the world of the 14th Century. It might be prudent to revisit her book. Messages from the 14th to the 21st Century? Perhaps….

After all, Gutenberg‘s discovery at that time, and subsequent implementation of the printing press, erased centuries of agrarian top down culture and gave birth to the ascendance of “the common man” and the creation of that middle class power base that resulted in the Industrial Revolution.

Click here to download a PDF of analysis and here to read in its entirety.