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Right now we have another exciting opportunity to design a house on the west side of Vancouver. This house is located on Angus drive and it has an impressive half acre lot for us to explore and design. The house will be about 9000 square feet with 6 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms. There will be an outdoor pool with an amazing 45 foot waterwall and an indoor hot tub with separate sauna and steam rooms in the basement. The overall style of this home is west coast contemporary. The owner is an avid car collector and he was very open to all new and interesting ideas that we had to offer. This will be definitely be a big project for us for the rest of 2010 and it will be exciting to watch our vision come to life.

It’s not often that you can hear a physical space speak to you, ….but when you do, it’s an awesome experience. In our recent exclusive VictorEric Premium Homes open house event, people were telling us that the space was definitely speaking to them. They were feeling the language of design on a whole new level; A level they’ve never experienced before; A level of magnificence!

To us at VictorEric, hearing this is one of the most rewarding satisfactions of what we do. Where else do you get paid to day dream? Where else are you entrusted with designing someone’s dream home? To top it all off, we get to be a part of building it and seeing it happen brick by brick, stone by stone. When we design, we strategically layout the walls and define the space so we can guide the flow. We purposefully select the best combination of materials to evoke the right emotions. We technically select and layout the lights to create the ambiance crucial to the inhabitants. All this, in the perfect combination is the language of our design.

Some of the words that kept coming up for people as they experienced the space were:
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- one of a kind
- magnificent
- amazing
- beautiful
- intriguing
- love the different use of textures and attention to detail
- good use of water and great positive energy flow
- feels like a resort, very relaxing
- love the spacious layout without being too open

Please click here to view a video speech from our Principal, Eric Lee for the event.

Back in January, Eric blogged about his experiences with a young couple looking to build a new home in Aldergrove. Now after seven months, we have completed the plans and renderings for this unique project. The owners, Kerry and Robin, had a great vision of what they wanted their home to look like and allowed us to utilize our creativity in designing the perfect space for them. They wanted a custom one level modern mansion that would fit their needs. This home sits on 138 acres of land and also comes with a warehouse-size garage measuring over 17,000 square feet! The main house itself occupies approximately 7,000 square feet of space. One of this property’s special features is the infinity swimming pool at the rear of the house overlooking a fantastic view. We have just completed the architectural drawings. We have no doubt that this will be another defining project for VictorEric once it is fully built.

In June, I blogged about the excavation process at our new project on West 8th Avenue in Vancouver’s West Point Grey area. Since then, most of the framing have been completed and it looks like we are on our way to a beautiful finished home in a couple of months. Ray from Kellog Dream Homes have graciously provided us with the latest pictures of the working site.

This is what the second floor looks like right now

As you can see in the picture below, the view from the second floor will be absolutely breathtaking and a great focal point for the home.