The Sullivan Landing Blog
Show Homes in the Kootenays - A Purchasing Guide
If you are looking to move to a new urban alpine community, you will most likely be purchasing a home from builder’s plans, a show home or a combination of the two. There are a few key thoughts to making a good purchase decision – first, don’t rush; and secondly, make sure the home builder is someone with a solid reputation and sales staff who support you and work with you through the buying process.
Homes for Sale: Moving Speak 101
With a move comes plenty of excitement and chaos. The last thing you want to concern yourself with mid-move is the industry talk to ensure all the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed. Here is a handy list from energycrew.ca with definitions from dictionary.com to ensure that you are up to date with your moving jargon and have all your moving documents in place.
Kimberley Alpine Resort – A Wii Bit of Fun Coming Soon
For many of us, the idea of sore feet and muscles, cold faces and other places makes skiing/snowboarding to be anything but a fun activity.
Moving this Winter?
It can seem like there is never a right time to move – endless packing, unpacking, planning and the heavy lifting galore can seem daunting.
A Home Building Road Map for a New House
The benefit of building your dream home in a new urban alpine community is the ability to start from scratch. A potential downside of building your dream home is the amount of planning required and budgeting needs. To help your journey along and to minimize any road blocks while building your home, we have a quick road map to help you along with your planning and budgetary needs.
The Ever-Changing the Bavarian Rockies
As the European Kitschy look is beginning to look out of date, and Bavarian themes are no longer the style, there is a clock in the quaint town of Kimberley, British Columbia but it's not just a clock,it's the largest free standing cuckoo clock in North America. It features “Happy Hans” the yodeler who makes an appearance every hour, or for a quarter, he will come and sing for you. As overheard on a video found on YouTube when the clock is going off, “it’s quite possibly the best twenty-five cents you’ll ever spend”.
Kimberley Alpine Resort to Open Early
If you haven’t heard the news, well, you must be one of the ones who got buried in that massive snowfall that hit Kimberley B.C. last week. While you get unstuck from all that snow, I’ll fill you in… Due to said massive snowfall, Kimberley Alpine Resort has announced that they are opening their slopes over a week early. This is a very merry surprise for the locals, and for the neighbouring ski bums.
Downsizing for Retiree’s
Many retiree’s have lived in their current homes for years, raised children there, maybe even have memories with their grandchildren, and just maybe great-grandchildren. (If you’re any thing like my family, my great-grandma was a great-great grandma!). In the homes that house generations, almost every trinket, pot, pan, and decoration has sentimental value.
Downsizing your Clutter
After living in a home for many years, it is amazing how much clutter we manage to collect. Even if you’re not looking to move, here are a few great tips from freshome.com on how to sort through all that clutter to help you organize, purge, and tidy so you can have a clean home.
Finding Your Inner Qi
After you move into a new home in a new community, the next big step is unpacking, organizing and decorating. While designing your new home, you may want to consider adding a little Feng Shui to your home. What is Feng Shui you ask? Why would it be a benefit to your home? How do you get Feng Shui? Well here is a quick guide with information from About.com to help you find your inner Qi or C’hi (pronounced chee in English).
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