Spritual Location

My client sent me this beautiful picture taken recently for their contractor's website...isn't it amazing?

The beach and walkway is private, and hosts the most amazing sunsets. The heads of the beams were carved by local First Nations carvers, and gas torches light your way to the beach. An outdoor fireplace inside a little seating niche warms you on the bottom deck level - there are 3 levels of balconies facing the elements and the open ocean, and a beautiful little protected breakfast area with a pond and garden in front. Outdoor speakers make for an even better ambience!

I will be watching the home for them at the end of the month...it's always a treat to run down the walkway to the beach (and up again, which is much more difficult), take a steam shower, make a latte and watch the sunset. It's a beautiful home, but there is also something very spiritual about the area that is intangible.

Best seat in the house

The plan is to walk on Long Beach or the Wick, use the gym in the house, buy fresh produce, take spa baths and steam showers, and just treat myself! I am so looking forward to it.

Long Beach- 10 kms from Ucluelet

Thanks for (what the client and I call) the standing power of refusal you guys!

xoxo

CARE awards in Victoria

Wish us luck; I am off to the CARE awards (Canadian Home Builders Association) in Victoria...the builder is nominated for 5 awards for Eaglerock

There is whole table of us, so a good time should be had by all. More than 15 trades and artisans worked on the home...from concrete stained floors to leaded transomes. It was an amazing project...once in a lifetime really. The client and I have remained close friends...it's an intimate process, and when it was over, we laughed about how we missed each other.

Life is Good

Just when I was thinking about how much I wanted to spend more time in Ucluelet, and how I can move back here in the future, two things happened. First, I got more work! The best news is that I am being brought into the project at the planning stage; every designers dream. The second thing is that I am staying at EagleRock by myself. It isn't very often, as a designer, you get to live in a house you design. Last night I had a spa bath, breathed in late misty air on the balcony before bed, and climbed into the most comfortable down quilt I have every slept under. Heaven really. The eagle sits on the stonehenge rock in front of the house in the morning and evening.

Let's face it, as women, we question the projects our men make for themselves to get out of doing other work, but Carl was right when he installed built in speakers with seperate room controls. The sound of the ocean was piped in because of the energy efficient windows. There are even speakers in the fireplace area downstairs. Just imagine the lighting on dimmers, white heated marble, a spa bath, bubbles, view of the ocean, Blue Rodeo and a warm fire. Hmmm.

So I have lived in a project I have helped design, and this in turn will make me a better designer.

The eagle just flew from his rock.