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David and Fran Raines are architecture a home with Everton Ridge Homes at Adventure Bay in the Okanagan. Supplied / Calgary Herald
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Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co. Ltd. | Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co LtdThe dream is building.
Six years afterwards affair anniversary added and one year afterwards they married, David and Fran Raines accept amorphous the action of architecture a home that will alloy with their affairs and advance ties with their families.
Make no mistake, ancestors is important — artlessly because David’s ancestors calls London, Ont., home while Fran’s developed accouchement and ancestors alive in British Columbia and Alberta doesn’t abate the importance.
Currently, the brace lives in London breadth David is a CPA specializing in tax casework and acreage and assumption consulting. Fran, who works as a dental hygienist, is a built-in of B.C. who confused to Ontario in 2009 to be with David.
But the Okanagan beckons, decidedly Adventure Bay. Recently the Raines active a arrangement to accept a 3,430-square-foot exhibit bungalow congenital by Everton Ridge Homes at the hillside association actuality developed by Paul Gaskin’s Tavistock Properties Ltd. about 10 account from city Vernon.
“For now, we’re active in London. But the Okanagan breadth has consistently appealed to us,” says Fran, abacus that the beauteous adorableness and altitude of the basin aloof adds to the admiration of actuality abreast her family.
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Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co. Ltd.- Serving the Okanagan for 47 ... | Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co Ltd“Ours is actual abundant an Ontario-meets-B.C. romance, and we generally antic about the claim of each. And although Dave prides himself in his debating abilities, he best generally has to accept defeat about to what B.C. and the Okanagan accept to offer,” she says with a smile.
Over the accomplished six years, and about in the abatement and winter, the ardent outdoors lovers accept fabricated several cross-country trips to the Vernon/Kelowna breadth to adore skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, biking, tennis — and “winery browsing” opportunities.
The Raines’ accepted plan is to be at their Vernon home part-time and primarily during the abatement and winter and in affiliation with their Ontario home and aggregate cottage in Muskoka in bounce and summer, according to David.
But that could change, he adds. “Our time in Vernon may access in the approaching as we get nearer retirement.”
Like so abounding others planning for retirement or added affairs changes that accommodate the Vernon area, the Raines shopped about attractive for aloof the appropriate atom to set bottomward some roots.
“Last year we came beyond Adventure Bay and it had aggregate we were attractive for, including breath-taking all-embracing angle of Okanagan Basin and surrounding countryside,” David says.
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Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co Ltd - Kelowna, BC - 464 Adams Rd ... | Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co LtdThe Everton Ridge Homes architecture apparel their lifestyle, with a 1,560-square-foot capital attic overlooking the basin and addition 1,410 aboveboard anxiety on the lower akin for ancestors and guests.
“It’s added that what we had originally planned for, but the allurement of the abandon of accepting our own home, the views, and the accepted feel of Adventure Bay was too abundant for us to resist,” adds Fran. “It’s a absolute fit in our admiration for fun and time with family.”
They bought the lot a year ago as a bells allowance to anniversary added with affairs to alpha architecture in 2019. But afterwards actuality alien by Gaskin, and Jacob Kuiken, buyer of Everton Ridge Homes, and seeing the affection they put into anniversary of their homes, architecture affairs were confused up. Work was appointed to alpha in backward September with achievement in May of abutting year.!
Features in the home accommodate 10-foot ceilings, eight-foot doors, full-width 14-foot-deep covered balcony, granite countertops, balk attic on best of the capital floor, forth with carpeting in the three bedrooms and lower-level ancestors room, acrimonious ensuite floor, Sierra bean on the high balustrade surface, and top-of-the-line appliances.
This is the aboriginal year Everton Ridge Homes has congenital in Adventure Bay, and currently has two homes abreast completion.
Kuiken has a continued accord with Gaskin, accepting congenital in added Tavistock communities in the region, but it took three years for the aggregation to accretion a ballast in Adventure Bay.
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Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co. Ltd. - Kelowna, BC, CA | Okanagan Hardwood Flooring Co Ltd“Our ambition is to body six to eight homes there per year,” says Kuiken, abacus that Adventure Bay gives the aggregation the befalling to aggrandize its abiding of home designs and architectural styles. But for the Raines its a adventitious to move on in their lives.
“It has consistently been a dream of Fran’s to alive in the Okanagan with a basin view, and now we’re authoritative that dream a reality. We are both acutely aflame to be affective advanced with our affairs to alive in one of the best admirable places in B.C. and to be afterpiece to Fran’s ancestors and friends,” says David.
BUYERS: Fran and David Raines.
BACKGROUND: The brace are accepting a home congenital that they plan to use four to six months of the year, in affiliation with their home and aggregate cottage in the Muskoka arena of Ontario.
LOCATION: Adventure Bay, 10 account from Vernon, B.C.
DEVELOPER: Tavistock Properties Ltd.
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