Your Dwelling

Kilgore Trout · #1 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 6:15 AM**

this thread has been done before but i don't think i've ever seen a canadian version.

tell us about your dwelling (and post a photo if possible).

i live in mile end, montreal, in a sixplex built in 1918. (most of my neighbourhood was developed between 1895 and 1910.)

keninhalifax · #2 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 2:02 PM**

I don't have a photo of my current residence. My father and I live in a single-family home (c.1984) in the Ottawan suburbs, and although I don't need to pay rent, I'm not very happy with my current living situation. While the 'burbs may be a riot for young sprawling families, they're no fun for twentysomething single students. Next time you're looking to meet a nice girl, try the pick-up line "I live in exurbia with my father!" It never fails.

That said, when I escape to graduate school next year I would love to live in a dwelling not dissimilar to yours, KT. That's a real beauty of a building in an enviable neighbourhood, too!

feepa · #3 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 2:36 PM**

^ not my picture, picture taken from someone else with very similar suite thats selling theres, heres a direct link
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/display.html?code=10526

place is less then a year old, and is in Spruce Grove, 36 Km from downtown Edmonton

PhilippeMtl · #4 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 2:58 PM**

This is the house in front of where I live. Exactly the same thing.

Archiseek · #5 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 3:25 PM**

Detached house c.1914 with original panelling throughout - full width open porch to the front, sunroom above porch and also to the rear. 5mins walk to Corydon, Winnipeg/

WhipperSnapper · #6 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 3:48 PM**

now: 3 storey, circa 1920, detached house in The Beach, Toronto

rgalston · #7 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 4:33 PM**

My dwelling turns 125 next year; one of several houses on my street--and many in this neighborhood--that were built in the real estate boom of 1881-82.

Taller Better · #8 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 4:44 PM**

Where is "mile end", Kilgore? I live in a pretty standard ten storey 1960's apt building in the gay village of Toronto.

habsfan · #9 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Taller Better

Where is "mile end", Kilgore? I live in a pretty standard ten storey 1960's apt building in the gay village of Toronto.

just north of the Plateau.

Rusty van Reddick · #10 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 5:23 PM**

chez furrycanuck, a 1925 craftsman in Bankview, inner SW Calgary:

Caraganas are a BITCH btw. Covered with thorns.

1ajs · #11 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 5:23 PM**

hmm well i live at home with my parents still... in a home built in 1883 kinda spoild all hardwood floors big ass kitchen/dinging room

has 2 murals on the side of it ones in the back of a vine growing up the wall, witch theres a vine growing up the mural

and the other mural visble below if of a desert

summer 05 after september storm

also the only house with a front drvie way on the street

vid · #12 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 9:23 PM**

'big ass .. dinging room'

Sweet!

My house is 50 years old and for sale. It's an awkward yellow colour, and covered in Ivy, which is full of bees. It's in an awkward location but I can comfortable walk downtown so it's not too bad. And there is a bus route.

harls · #13 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 9:46 PM**

Somewhere in there.

Blitz · #14 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 10:39 PM**

1 bedroom apartment in a big ol' concrete highrise slab in London, built in 1982.

MonkeyRonin · #15 Posted: **Oct 2, 2006, 11:07 PM**

a house in North York, kinda like one of these, but in slightly more urban neighbourhood.

course I should be moving out in the not too distant future

jeremy_haak · #16 Posted: **Oct 3, 2006, 12:30 AM**

This is the place I'm currently living at in Wiarton - my parents' house.

IntotheWest · #17 Posted: **Oct 3, 2006, 1:15 AM**

Furry - that is a very nice looking house...and an awesome location!

We bought a turn-of-the-millenium home (1999-2000 :-), way, way, way out in the burbs of Calgary (Somerset).

But we really bought it for the deck...

vid · #18 Posted: **Oct 3, 2006, 2:21 AM**

Nica Garage you have there.

It's very spacious!

trueviking · #19 Posted: **Oct 3, 2006, 4:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by IntotheWest

We bought a turn-of-the-millenium home (1999-2000 :-), way, way, way out in the burbs of Calgary (Somerset).

one of closest friends lives in somerset (yet another transplanted winnipegger)...his house looks almost exactly like that...you guys must be practically neighbours.

Kevin_foster · #20 Posted: **Oct 3, 2006, 4:20 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by rgalston

My dwelling turns 125 next year; one of several houses on my street--and many in this neighborhood--that were built in the real estate boom of 1881-82.

Sweet, I like that house. Is it one of those Eaton Catalouge Houses? I know winnipeg and Edmonton got a lot of those, but I'm not sure they date back to the late 1800's... I know they were popular in 1920's...

In any case, everyone here has nice pads