I’ve been driving by this house on Maple Street in Collingwood for the last year watching the transformation. I don’t know the owners but have to congratulate them on a job well done. Here is what the house looked like when they bought it a couple of years ago. This is what the house looks [...]
The last week has been heavy with learning as I’ve attended a number of meetings and seminars. One featured a speaker from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) who spent a couple of hours educating a room full of REALTORS® about the property valuation process and governing legislation. Another meeting featured Don Mathieson, the Mayor [...]
Despite the fact that Collingwood is surely one of the prettiest towns in the province, the folks living in Olde Towne would likely tell you that their view to the west is anything but pretty. On the north side sits an empty lot and an abandoned, boarded up old rooming house. On the south sits [...]
We often talk about our desire to “go green” but outside of replacing fluorescent light bulbs and using organic garbage bins, I’m not sure some people really have been able to translate their desires into concrete action. I’ve been thinking about this a great deal lately as we try to develop our own green plan [...]
As reported in the last post, we recently had a Home Energy Audit performed on our own 22 year old, brick bungalow. Although it ranked very well with respect to our over-all energy efficiency, there are still things we can do to make it better and in this post, I’d like to review some of [...]
I’m amazed at the talent some people have for knowing what looks good. Drs. Vecchio (yup, there are two of them) have done it again. After transforming their last home, they took this tired older home and did it again. Applying concepts of Feng Shui and old-fashioned good taste, they have transformed their new abode [...]
I have a very talented and smart client. She recently made a significant life change upon her retirement by leaving the city to move to Collingwood to live a quality lifestyle. This gal purchased a run-down condo that had the right bones, a fabulous location and a good price. Then she set her mind to making it hers [...]
Back about two months ago, I wrote about the fact that we’d hired Garden Holistics to tackle our lawn of weeds without the use of chemicals. At the time, Jerome said it would take about two years to recover. Could he have meant two months? Since that first post, the lawn has been aerated, top dressed, [...]
Like most homeowners in our neighbourhood, John and I take pride in our landscaping. When we purchased our home 4 years ago, there was nothing but a gravel circular driveway right across the front yard. The grass was green but chemically dependant. We replaced the driveway with one made of stamped concrete and we lined [...]
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