You can spend $4,680,000 CDN on an apartment, plus $4514.60 CDN in maintenance, and $15,459 CDN in city taxes, and still not have one. (We know by writing this sentence that we are guilty of not having a great mind.) Or $22.5M USD ($2,050 – $5,500 a night), if you prefer.
We like great rooms. Great rooms, great expectations.
Let's take two examples.
1) The Kingswood
When you go for a ground (1st) floor unit, even a 2-floor apartment, like 1-B 1569 West 14th Avenue, you leave open the question of walking visitors hopping the fence. More to the point you have neighbours over you, and feel like you are the maintenance man.
- 1-B 1596 West 14th Avenue - 2B or not 2B, that is the question.
You'll be better off putting in $2M in the Vancouver House, which includes a great room, and less maintenance.
vancouverhouse.ca
This will leave you $2,680,000 CDN for your furnishing, and and extra $3000/mo. for your upgrade budget, comparatively.
2) Villa Sawarin ($22.5M)
Phillipe Starck is an example of a very rare architect. One who can design both beautiful interiors and exteriors (like Ayn Rand's "Howard Roark"), in the same building. Vancouver's #2 condo-apartment (as opposed to hotel-apartment), "The Grace" is an example of a more middling mind, who is unable to combine the two.
Business cases may be party responsible for this. It's our contention that Disneyfication may be partly to blame for a building like the Grace that should be spectacularly proper on the inside, if judged from the out.
Villa Sawarin suffers nothing of this. It's both very good looking, and yet very functional. Something gorgeous to look at, in every respect, and yet it lacks grandeur.
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