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Recently, a new roof…property has been maintained by seller, over the years of use of this cottage style home by a relative. Room to build a new home, and to stay in the cottage while you build…good summer/weekender for now. Or, treat as a rental/investment property.

Lots of options…create your tranquility escape here!

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Private, sunny (s/sw/w exposures), lovely panoramic vista of ocean & mountains, on community water, close to park hiking/walking trails, & nearby to warm ocean swimming beaches!

In Phase 2 of prestigious Channel Ridge Estates, this recently updated home is step in ready and is priced to sell.

Fenced yard for your dog and double garage for those classic cars!

Wood floors, updated country kitchen, new furnace, new decks, vaulted ceiling in open plan living/dining…gas feature fireplace…breakfast area with forest charm…sep laundry…two bed/two bath (master ensuite)…generous storage/closets…easy access to sunny decking from living and master.

The perfect retirement opportunity…move in tomorrow, and enjoy the special Salt Spring lifestyle!

Call me, and let’s view this gem soon!

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Superlative opportunity!   In the heart of the Fulford Valley/Burgoyne Valley, with excellent sun exposures and dramatic valley, mountain, and ocean viewscapes…a short stroll to beach and to miles of riding and walking/hiking trails…this land is superb.

The gift?   This almost ten acres is the home of renowned Garry Oak Vineyard…award-winning wines, often showcased at Hastings House and other luxury venues, and featured in fine dining establishments.

The home is a custom architect designed gem (Osborne & Clark, from Vancouver…famed for their country ethic)…you will be immediately eased into the Salt Spring lifestyle as you enjoy this stellar property.

The Fulford Valley/Burgoyne Valley are at the same latitude as the Loire Valley in France.    The micro-climate enjoyed by Salt Spring Island is known as “cool Mediterranean”.

Salt Spring features as an artistic haven, with painters, writers, musicians, fabric artists, potters, sculptors, actors, dancers all calling this Island beauty “home”.    The slow food movement is also alive and well on amazing Salt Spring Island: a sustainable farm ethic is a part of the Island culture.    Farmers markets are an almost year round feature of our temperate climate zone.

The Island also offers all services/amenities required in our 21st Century lives, and yet also enjoys that wonderful sense of being “apart”.    Close to major centres (Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle), and with a year round lifestyle…easy to do daytrips to other regions, and yet not necessary to leave the Island unless one wishes to.    Hospital, three elementary schools, a middle and a state of the art senior school, seniors activities, a growing digital network of the tech culture, the voice of the artist well represented, a sense of sanctuary without being isolated…it is a premier location for either a seasonal or a year round experience.

The Garry Oak Vineyard acreage offers an alluring retirement opportunity…be the hands on person you’ve always dreamed of being, or retain the qualified helpers in the vineyard.   Charming cottage home for these accomplished helpers…plus auxiliary buildings dedicated to the wine-making.

Always dreamed of France or Italy?    Here’s the delectable reality to that dream…the stability and the innovative and the creative Canadian lifestyle awaits your pleasure on very special Salt Spring Island!

Here is your dramatic and warm hued home, with exceptional views to rest the soul…here is the detached garage for your classic cars…here is the privacy and the calm that enfolds one…here is the interest to pique one’s mind, to open a door to a creative experience…call me, and let’s view this gem together, very soon.

Please, do not disturb owners or vineyard staff…appointments to view are essential.    24 hour notice requested.

Price: $3,200,000

Here is your future….

Superlative 5 acre point, with easy access oceanfront, private coves and bays, warm ocean swimming, dramatic & panoramic views, deep water dock in protected bay, sunrises and sunsets…this truly is the very best waterfront opportunity on special Salt Spring Island!

Beautiful home, the best of the country home design ethic, an Osborne & Clark imagining of an authentic country property retreat.

Be inspired by the interior charm, by the ocean, islands, & mountain vistas offered from all principal rooms…a lovely blurring of interior and exterior spaces…this appealing home says “welcome”, immediately!

Dream kitchen, welcoming living with inglenook style feature stone fireplace, country dining, casual lounge with a forever view, cosy den/library (could be a guest bedroom, if desired), and a wonderful private master “suite”, in it’s own tranquil wing…enjoy shimmering water, wide angle sky, mountain frame…forest & meadow privacy…ahh…breathe in the perfection of a true retreat!

Beautifully sited guest cottages, positioned at seaside, splendid panoramic views, sunrise and sunset locations…five guest spaces, self-contained for the privacy & pleasure of visiting family and friends.

Games “cabin”, studio, separately sited garage, deep water dock (keep your boat at home), private trails through your own forest, patio spaces that follow the sun, adirondack chairs discovered in special places, inviting one to sit & ponder & to experience true relaxation…a lovely winding drive off a very quiet country road introduces you immediately to peace, beauty, ocean delights….

The word retreat is an interesting one…it implies not an escape but rather a restorative and energizing experience…that is what this unique waterfront estate offers you.

With the allure of a private island, and yet with the connections of a location on special Salt Spring Island, the largest & best serviced of the Canadian Southern Gulf Islands, this gem enjoys a calm appreciation of our natural world.

Welcome to your Island retreat home!
Price: $7,500,000

(48 hour notice for all viewings).

Looking for a private island paradise, with secure year round moorage for your boat, if desired, and with a very appealing country style main home and a beauty cottage, too?

Here it is!

Garage plus parking space at Canoe Cove, plus covered boat slip…easy to keep a run-about boat here for quick back & forth jaunts to shore.

Kolb Island enjoys the peaceful beauty of your own island plus the proximity to all services and amenities of Sidney and of Victoria. Easy to get to from anywhere in the world, and yet wonderfully private and “apart” upon arrival.

Authentic country style main home, with main level expansive living (feature wood-burning fireplace), dining with a seaview, spacious country kitchen with breakfast area, guest bed and bath. Master bed-sitting with ensuite on the upper level…a hidden retreat! Appealing deck wraps the home, offering different viewscapes. An adjacent “bunky” cabin is the perfect writer’s retreat and overflow guest accommodation!

The two bed guest cottage is nestled beside the sea, and is privately sited from the main home…the country design ethic has been retained here, in this newer addition to the Island.

An original cabin, perhaps dating from the 1920s, perched at water’s edge has been retained…a very picturesque destination while strolling the island.

Connected to Vancouver Island for power and water, and with a back-up generator system, this is a recipe for being self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Private trails, easy care natural landscaping around the home, lovely stands of forest, arbutus & Garry Oak groves, covered wood storage, veggie garden, terrific storage building for all the extras that go with a boater’s life…private points of land for pondering life & nature, bays for star-watching & swimming…coves to beachcomb.

This is a very very appealing private island experience, with open sea vistas & serene protected bays.

You will love the very expansive docks and the welcoming arrival decking. Authentic boathouse, right there, for convenience!

Sunny (e/s/w exposures), peaceful, near and yet far…it doesn’t get any better!

Call for your appointment to view…48 hour notice for all viewings.

Price: $5,000,000

MLS# V904417

A most spectacular ocean view acreage (26 acres), in a prime area of Salt Spring Island, and with an amazing architect designed home (Blue Sky Architecture dream) executed by Salt Spring’s best builder…this is “the best”!

The dramatic panoramic views take in the Lower Mainland mountains, from Sunshine Coast, past Vancouver, and into the U.S. (Mt. Baker’s majesty, and Mt. Rainier on a clear day, soar to meet your gaze)    The Canadian Gulf Islands and the U.S. San Juans array themselves for your pleasure…the ocean vistas are “right there”, and the ferries and pleasure boats plying our waters are always entertaining.    Sunrises and sunsets from the expanisve deck/patio areas….all of them blurring the line between interior and exterior enjoyment of this natural landscape.

Many unique and irreplaceable features, here….ask for brochure.

Formal entry/foyer…master “wing”, expansive living, dream kitchen, entertainment style ocean view dining, guest bed/bath offered on main level…garden level enjoys family/media room, two further guest bed/baths, craft room.    Easy access to exterior spaces.   Radiant infloor heat, stone flooring, cherry wood flooring, dramatic windows (Loewen custom windows), window wall that slides to open onto spectacular view patio (pizza oven and outdoor kitchen, here, too!).

Easy care natural landscaping, ponds, a lovely meadow/forest mix…your own walking trails throughout this majestic land.

Zoned for main home, plus separate guest, plus separate studio…develop further as you desire.

With homage to the organic and natural designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Blue Sky Architecture team created an amazing home…a citadel concept, with natural materials that blend with the land itself.

This is a home that would be premier anywhere in the world…it just happens to be on special Salt Spring Island, with all its unique amenities and strong artistic flair.

Don’t delay on this one.   It is, truly, “one of a kind”.

Price: $7,200,000

Superb oceanfront awaits your pleasure…on tranquil Thetis Island!

A very talented architect worked with the owners to create a most appealing “summer/weekender” retreat home, nestled at water’s edge, with a spectacular sweep of beach at your doorstep.

A boat launch allows you to easily access the ocean, and there is protected anchorage in this generous bay..    Fish and crab right off your beach!

The one level home offers a stylish country kitchen (yes, an Aga!), perfect for a couple and great for entertaining, with separate laundry off (with a view!), plus storage/wine room.    The dining area, at seaside, plus a pleasing library off, with easy access out to the spacious oceanside decking.   links to the cosy living room.    Garden and ocean views, feature stone fireplace, window seat at oceanside…a lovely and warming space, summer or winter.     Guest bedroom and bathroom, plus master sitting (solarium space, overlooking the garden), and pleasing ensuite, complete the arrangement of this stylish and comfortable home.

With plans developed for a dramatic and substantial renovation/addition, created by the owners with the same talented architect, this allows one to consider the property as the very best of a summer place retreat, for now, and to develop the permanent residence for later.    In either case, the location, land itself, beachfront, views, sun exposure, privacy are all stellar reasons for this property’s allure.

The plus?    Great water (private well).

With alluring views of ocean, islands, mountains, with all day excellent sun exposure (e/s/w), with dramatic sunsets year round, with warm ocean swimming, a beautiful beach, orchard and easy care garden, meadow and forest mix, this is truly a unique and very valuable holding.

Thetis Island is easily reached by ferry (from Chemainus, on Vancouver Island) or by floatplane or by private boat (marinas in Telegraph Harbour are just a stroll away), and still offers that magical “apartness” that so many Island seekers are looking for.

Let’s view soon!

A true waterfront gem, on one of the most pleasing Southern Gulf Islands…

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Price: $1,975,000

Lovely winding drive, through coastal forest, emerges at lawn, with “natural” mature landscaping, orchard, and a seaside home and cottage to inspire one.

With an appealing blend of “west coast contemporary” with Hamptons elegance, this home lends itself to a family retreat use, perhaps a high end bed & breakfast option, would make an ideal corporate retreat, and a professional couple working from home would also find this home’s design of significant interest.

Inviting verandah style covered deck at entrance, formal entry foyer, spacious oceanside living with custom and energy efficient fireplace, entertainment size dining with an ocean vista, cooks’ dream kitchen off, also with that mesmerizing view…custom doors open to the oceanside deck from the dining area….easy to reach the cottage from here, too!     Powder room, master with ensuite, access to oceanside deck, plus office off, and access to attached garage, all from this main entry level.   Also, a separate laundry, mudroom and storage.  Wood floors, custom window treatments…an ambiance of a true country home!

Lower (daylight) level offers two bed/bath, plus storage, wine cellar, family room, media room….oceanside patio off….

The adjacent cottage is a dream guest space    Vistas down the length of Trincomali Channel…an impactful view!     The lower (daylight) level of the cottage is a terrific workout/gym space…and with that dramatic viewscape.

Beautiful sand and crushed shell beach…mooring buoy for your boat…a beachcomber’s paradise, here!    Ocean swimming, serene privacy, a yesteryear ambiance with all of the amenities desired in the 21st Century…here is the best of the Salt Spring lifestyle, and waiting for you! Sunny and quiet…recharge here!

In prestigious Southey Point!

Call me, and let’s view soon.

Spectacular and unique oceanfront holding…17 +/- acres of waterfront, with thousands of feet of foreshore…bays, beaches, promontories, incredible wrap-around views of ocean, islands, mountains!

Sunny (s/sw/w/nw exposures), amazing sunsets, here.

Some pasture/arable area from an old homestead, some old growth forest, beautiful stands of fir and cedar…maples, alder, arbutus groves, some garry oak.    All very beautiful, indeed!

In the same family for approximately 70 years, this gem is like your own private park.   Lovely walking trails…inspiring to meander through the land.   Very softly used…a summer cabin (old style) for weekends…like a “hard tent”…a camping experience has been enjoyed here by the environmentally aware owner.

Its neighbour is a park reserve, thus expanding the privacy and the calm.

Truly a magnificent offering, and a very very rare commodity anywhere…and it just happens to be on lovely peaceful Pender Island.

Call me, and let’s view soon.