Darlene and I love going to visit the various lottery show homes on display around the city. If nothing else, we like to imagine what it would be like to live in such a home and we often analyze the home's features for practicality and compare notes on what we like or don't like about each home. For the record, the Kinsmen home that was awarded from the Children's Hospital lottery was amazing. The nicest, most practical home we've seen to date.So when the Calgary Health Trust Lifestyles Lottery show home opened to the public for viewing this weekend, we went to take a look. Now, when a home is priced at $1.8 million, your expectations are high. We left greatly disappointed. Generally, the home isn't terrible, but it certainly has some major flaws. For starters, the colour scheme they used has a look that will not appeal to everyone. It certainly isn't my favourite. For a home of this size, the basement seemed very small. It could be that the utility area is big, but we weren't allowed into that area. The main floor is nice, open, bright and airy. But the top floor was a mish-mash of design ideas and mis-steps that I thought could be executed better. The top floor consisted of a family room, a huge curved bar area, an exercise room and the master suite. Now I don't know about you, but if I were designing a home, I don't think I'd put party central one door away from my bedroom. That's me though. Off of the family room was a roof-top deck with fireplace - nice touch.
But upon touring the master suite and ensuite bathroom, Darlene and I both looked at each other and said "Where's the tub?" The ensuite had a team sized shower with multiple heads. But there was no tub. Nada. The search was on. There has to be a tub in here somewhere. We looked. But we did not find. We did spot yet another shower in another bathroom, but no tub. Only once we got to the deepest recesses of the basement did we finally come across a standard tub in the shared bathroom for the two bedrooms down there.
I found this giant omission to be rather odd. Wouldn't you expect an almost $2 million home to at least be sporting a soaker tub in the ensuite? I was saying to Darlene that if we were shopping for a $1.8 million home (eyes rolling) and came across this one, I would have been laughing to the real estate agent. That feature (or lack thereof) alone was enough to give this lottery home a huge thumbs down. I wouldn't be surprised if sales of tickets suffer as a result.
So in summary - roof-top deck - good. Lack of tub in ensuite - deal breaker - bad.
3 comments:
I think Candace Olson could have decorated better with one Chico tied behind her back.
And that tall black tub? One would pray for steps to get in and out it unless it were a stylish geriatric tub with a very clever hidden swing out door y'see.
ok, I have to ask, what is a lottery home? This is new to me.
In Canada, in an effort to raise money for a variety of causes that don't get enough funding elsewhere (usually health related), these causes run a lottery. The prizes range from luxury estate homes to cars, huge piles of cash, vacations and assorted gadgets and appliances. The money raised goes to support things like a new MRI machine or funding for cancer research. In Calgary, there are at least 3 of these lotteries per year. Tickets usually cost $100. But the grand prize is typically worth millions. Odds are decent too.
When a home is offered as a prize, the public is invited to check it out, in an effort to drum up interest in buying tickets. In most cases, these homes are quite impressive. If nothing else, they're good for the tour.
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