Your Dwelling

[Kilgore Trout]

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.)

http://static.flickr.com/102/253102107_b91792795e.jpg?v=0

[keninhalifax]

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]

http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/73917_10526.jpg

^ 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]

This is the house in front of where I live. Exactly the same thing.
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7751/dsc00371ek8.jpg

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/9190/myhousexq9.jpg

[Archiseek]

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]

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

[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.

http://static.flickr.com/84/258712605_9b451a0f9d.jpg

[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.

[habsfan]

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]

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

https://webdisk.ucalgary.ca/~jmanzo/public_html/1443%2019th%20Ave%20SW%20Calgary%20AB%20T2T0J1.jpg

Caraganas are a BITCH btw. Covered with thorns.

[1ajs]

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 :P
and the other mural visble below if of a desert
http://www.pointdouglas.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/630.jpg

summer 05 after september storm
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/2623/sitingonlogs19tv.jpg

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

[vid]

'big ass .. dinging room'

Sweet! :D

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]

Somewhere in there.

http://static.flickr.com/45/151381333_ffd3f752a3_o.jpg

[Blitz]

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

[MonkeyRonin]

a house in North York, kinda like one of these, but in slightly more urban neighbourhood.
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8431/northyorkwp8.jpg

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

[eemy]

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

http://static.flickr.com/21/34534812_9c0b028643.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamincan/34534812/)

[IntotheWest]

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).

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c126/intothewest4222/front.jpg

But we really bought it for the deck...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c126/intothewest4222/backyard.jpg

[vid]

Nica Garage you have there. :) It's very spacious! :yes:

[trueviking]

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]

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.

http://static.flickr.com/84/258712605_9b451a0f9d.jpg

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 :D

[IntotheWest]

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

I'm sure most of the houses look the same to most in Somerset...:)

Anyhow, it's still a nice house - and a killer deck. And yes Vid, very spacious garage!

[RWin]

My place in Kingsland.

http://members.shaw.ca/rwinhold/ssp/20060523/26.jpg

[softee]

I live in an attic apartment in this house on Mcintyre St. East on the edge of downtown North Bay. The house was built in 1908.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Softee/608_Mcintyre_E.jpg

Here's another view that shows a bit more of the my surroundings.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Softee/Bull_and_Quench.jpg

[Rob D]

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/4272/picture040kf7.jpg

In the heart of the city!

[e909]

.......

[trueviking]

i'll take a pic of the house tomorrow, but this is my street:

in how many cities can you buy a house on a street like that (top), in a neighbourhood like that (bottom), 5 minutes from downtown and 14 houses from a billionairres house (izzy asper before he died), which was on the most prestigious street in the city and pay less than $100k?

this was 4 years ago...it would cost a lot more now.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1125/trees3bn6.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/929/winnipegtreeshz2.jpg

[Boris2k7]

Ughhh, I still live way far away from downtown with my parents (in Evergreen), for reasons of not wanting to pay rent while in University. I'll take the long commute, thank you...

House circa 1994, Image circa 2003
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/981/image003uj7.jpg

Image circa 2005
Oh well, at least the view from my room is great...
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4576/image004ad3.jpg

EDIT: As a description of my community, well... it caters to the upper middle class. Lawyers, Doctors, owners of development and construction companies as well as the executive staff of oil and gas companies all live in this community. There are two houses at the end of the street that are approximately twice the physical size of ours. :S

The upper class don't live in communities like this. They live either on highly-valued land in the inner city in communities like Britannia, or out in the countryside far beyond city limits on massive estates.

[Kilgore Trout]

furry, nice house. i've always loved the craftman style.

when i lived in calgary i had a crush on this house in your neighbourhood at the corner of 17th avenue and some street whose number i forget. it's a greenish colour, two stories, kind of queen anne style, with a low stone retaining wall around the property. it was kind of in rough shape but looked very cosy.

[raggedy13]

My current residence... Marine Drive Residence at UBC... opened last year. I'm in the midrise in the foreground...

http://www.housing.ubc.ca/marine/images/ubcmarine2.jpg

Unfortunately I couldn't score a spot in the highrise. Some sweet views from there I hear...

http://www.housing.ubc.ca/marine/images/main.jpg

[Snashcan]

This was my place in courtice ontario, but was just sold

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c154/snashcan/House011.jpg

[IntotheWest]

Ughhh, I still live way far away from downtown with my parents (in Evergreen), for reasons of not wanting to pay rent while in University. I'll take the long commute, thank you...

House circa 1994, Image circa 2003

Image circa 2005
Oh well, at least the view from my room is great...
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4576/image004ad3.jpg



Dude - you back on to Fish Creek Park! I know you (and most on here) hate the burbs, but I personally think you're at one of the best locations...it's my favourite park!

[trueviking]

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6567/10160032gd0.jpg

[Rusty van Reddick]

furry, nice house. i've always loved the craftman style.

when i lived in calgary i had a crush on this house in your neighbourhood at the corner of 17th avenue and some street whose number i forget. it's a greenish colour, two stories, kind of queen anne style, with a low stone retaining wall around the property. it was kind of in rough shape but looked very cosy.

It's a photography studio now- I agree, a very special house.

[shappy]

I don't have anything of my current place in the Annex (70's apartment building). But here's the next best thing... my previous place around Bloor/Ossington. I don't have photos of the actual building but it looks pretty much the same as its surrounding houses (many of which are flats).


on the fire escape/balcony out back:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5949/irene3ea3.jpg

looking east:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6018/irene1iz4.jpg

looking south through a dirty window:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5476/irene4ln6.jpg

my neighbour's Jesus shrine:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6547/irene2va5.jpg

[Rusty van Reddick]

Shappy, we used to live in Seaton Village (Follis/Bathurst, 3 blocks north of honest ed) and loved the warren of patios and balconies on the laneway- you've captured this perfectly!

[Taller Better]

Nice street, Trueviking. Which one is it? Are those elm trees?

[elsonic]

My current residence... Marine Drive Residence at UBC... opened last year. I'm in the midrise in the foreground...

http://www.housing.ubc.ca/marine/images/ubcmarine2.jpg

Unfortunately I couldn't score a spot in the highrise. Some sweet views from there I hear...

http://www.housing.ubc.ca/marine/images/main.jpg

if I remember well, it's right next to the UBC Botanical Garden and, May 2006, there was other buildings under constructions.

very very nice spot. it's not too far from downtown? the Broadway bus last long, but the ride is very nice.

[vanman]

I don't have a picture of my house but I got pictures from my 3rd floor balcony and surrounding neighborhood in Burnaby


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/buildingscars017.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/PICT0001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/brentpics.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/PICT0002.jpg

[bc2mb]

My apartment building:
http://www.rentcanada.com/rancho/don120.jpg

Definitely not the most attractive looking highrise in Winnipeg..but inside, it makes for some really neat suite designs (lots of angles, not the typical box) Built in 87. Has a grocery store on the bottom which is really convenient.

Definitely the best apartment I have ever lived in. If the units were for sale, I'd buy one...

[WHISTLERINMUSKOKA]

My place in Little Italy Toronto. Sorry for the shitty quality.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/whistlerinToronto/Picture113.jpg

[Jeffy78]

In the heart of the city!

http://spc.fotologs.net/photo/60/53/20/jeffy78/1161202417_f.jpg

International Village, Vancouver (7th floor of the white tower on the right)

[WHISTLERINMUSKOKA]

Can't see it ^

[Jeffy78]

I don't have anything of my current place in the Annex (70's apartment building). But here's the next best thing... my previous place around Bloor/Ossington. I don't have photos of the actual building but it looks pretty much the same as its surrounding houses (many of which are flats).


on the fire escape/balcony out back:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5949/irene3ea3.jpg

looking east:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6018/irene1iz4.jpg

From first glances, these two pictures look like a residential scene from the UK!

[Arriviste]

I don't have anything of my current place in the Annex (70's apartment building). But here's the next best thing... my previous place around Bloor/Ossington. I don't have photos of the actual building but it looks pretty much the same as its surrounding houses (many of which are flats).


on the fire escape/balcony out back:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5949/irene3ea3.jpg

looking east:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6018/irene1iz4.jpg

looking south through a dirty window:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5476/irene4ln6.jpg

my neighbour's Jesus shrine:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6547/irene2va5.jpg


I LOVE inner city neighbourhoods in eastern Canada. Your post just brought me back to a very good place. I would die to live in such a location again. Inner city living in Calgary just isn't the same. Thanks:tup:

[boden]

Here's my house in Belleville, Ontario. Built in 1920. It is the house behind the car.
http://www.pbase.com/gaffer/image/26167377/original.jpg

[samne]

Current place. North of the Danforth in Riverdale/East York. Main floor with backyard of a converted triplex. These are my neighbours.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f150/thetoucansam/eastyork002.jpg

[jeffwhit]

Calgary's Sunnyside:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/jeffwhit/Picture002.jpg

close to downtown

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/jeffwhit/Picture003.jpg

taken not 5 minutes ago.

[shappy]

Shappy, we used to live in Seaton Village (Follis/Bathurst, 3 blocks north of honest ed) and loved the warren of patios and balconies on the laneway- you've captured this perfectly!

cool! I have friends at Follis and Clinton. Bathurst around there is great.

[jeffwhit]

^^ When I was in grad school i lived near there too, at Howland and Dupont.

[Jeffy78]

Some people were getting red x's, so I reposted my images with a different server:

http://static.flickr.com/80/273728383_594ecdd0f1_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/122/273728384_e203618de7_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/85/273728382_07eca16f92_m.jpg

;)

[CanadianCentaur]

Here's my condo building just west of Edmonton's downtown core in Oliver. :D

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5770/s53005958ml.jpg

[The_Bachelor]

Way out in the 'burbs in Calgary, bought this house in Coventry Hills when I was 22. It's a starter house built in '97.

http://venables.ca/startpage/Pics/Picture%20044.jpg

Backyard is small but nice:

http://venables.ca/startpage/Pics/Picture%20023.jpg

[trueviking]

man, whoever invented cultured stone is making a fortune in suburban calgary right now....damn......suburban everywhere, i guess.

[osirisboy]

heres my place in vancouver (yaletown) it is the building coverd in green tarp. im on the 21st floor facing the park and false creek. http://thumb3.webshots.net/t/53/453/7/73/1/2466773010098442443gtpWUc_th.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2466773010098442443gtpWUc)

can someone tell me or give me a link where it explains how to post a pic. how do i post pics like everyone else?

[Jeffy78]

heres my place in vancouver (yaletown) it is the building coverd in green tarp. im on the 21st floor facing the park and false creek. http://thumb3.webshots.net/t/53/453/7/73/1/2466773010098442443gtpWUc_th.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2466773010098442443gtpWUc)

can someone tell me or give me a link where it explains how to post a pic. how do i post pics like everyone else?

It looks like you're doing it right. If you're referring to the size, it depends on the properties of the pictures on your server.

[Waterlooson]

Currently, I'm at my home in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (for the winter):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/DSC00019-1.jpg

[vanman]

Way to rub it in! ^^^

[mariokarter]

right here. 16th floor. im at UBC in vancouver.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8633/mepz4.jpg

and this guy is on my doorstep
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6727/dsc00132wx3.jpg


and heres my family's home in toronto
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6006/dsc00039dv7.jpg

[Taller Better]

Currently, I'm at my home in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (for the winter):

]


Hmmm.... did you used to be a forumer over at SSC? With an avatar
of the little guy in a parka slipping on ice? :cheers:

@mariokarter
that UBC photo with the window circled in red looks like one of those pictures from the
Toronto Sun of where a baby "fell" out of a window! LOL!

[Border City Boy]

This is my place:

http://internationalmetropolis.com/images/2006//1019b.jpg

It's in downtown Windsor, bought it with my wife (then girlfriend) in 2001 for a song.

It was built in 1891 by Charles R. Cole who was a City Alderman and also the Water Comissioner. It is a designated property in the City of Windsor.

It went through a rough patch as a rooming house from about 1955-1978, when the whole neighborhood pooped out.

[big W]

I will be moving into my condo in 1 block from the Leg in Edmonton next month. For now I will be in a suburban area of Edmonton 16 kms from downtown.

[Kilgore Trout]

inspired by shappy, i took a photo of the view from my back balcony a couple of days ago. in the winter i get a nice peek at mount royal off in the distance.

http://static.flickr.com/117/297051294_97a9eddb89_o.jpg

[m0nkyman]

In Victoria:
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9679/img4403bn9.jpg
http://aycu35.webshots.com/image/6314/2002633143501933608_rs.jpg
In Edmonton:
http://aptenobytes.typepad.com/aptenobytes/images/P1010006-tm.jpg
On Pender Island:
http://aptenobytes.typepad.com/Images/P1010007.jpg

[Holden West]

Normally, I mock "Mock Tudor" but M0nkeyman's Victoria pad is one of the coolest buildings on Downtown's Antique Row.

[Taller Better]

I'm missing something. What are the IDAR mock Tudor buildings for?

[m0nkyman]

Family business.. we live in the same building as our stores...

[Ginty]

I will be moving into my condo in 1 block from the Leg in Edmonton next month. For now I will be in a suburban area of Edmonton 16 kms from downtown.

I smell a housewarming.

What place are you moving into?

[Lyle]

Every weekend and holiday finds the family here, in Chertsey, Qc.

http://static.flickr.com/82/253546828_9e618f6f94_o.jpg

With this pond for swimming and skating...

http://static.flickr.com/70/182645600_15b6f08b41_b.jpg

[DC83]

Olympia, downtown Hamilton - tower on the far left (3rd tallest in the city)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/DC_83/DSC02506.jpg

My View

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/DC_83/DSC02305.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/DC_83/DSC02303.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/DC_83/DSC02309.jpg

(I'm only 1/3 up the tower)

[1ajs]

With this pond for swimming and skating...

http://static.flickr.com/70/182645600_15b6f08b41_b.jpg

aww reminds me of beeing up at my cabin :) in northern manitoba
its all sand under the trees and moss
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/3425/fixeddock4my.jpg

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/687/goesforaswim2za.jpg

fire came threw cuple years ago :( cabin survied though
ignoring the 87 accord with a million kms on it you can see what lays under the trees and moss and wild plants grass ect
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/8403/hillshot1nk.jpg

[Greco Roman]

Here's my condo building just west of Edmonton's downtown core in Oliver. :D

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5770/s53005958ml.jpg

Haha. If that is on 116th St., I live one block due north of you. It really is a small world in Edmonton :)

[graupner]

Somewhere not too far from downtown Montreal, In Rosemont. Built in around 1905:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8323/p1010006pa9.jpg
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3258/p1010004iu9.jpg

[m0nkyman]

Haha. If that is on 116th St., I live one block due north of you. It really is a small world in Edmonton :)

'specially since that means that you're four blocks east of me.

[feepa]

not my place pictured, but a place in my building with the exact same layout/colour of walls/flooring/etc. all the same as mine
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/88588_12493.jpg
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/88589_12493a.jpg
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/88590_12493b.jpg
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/88591_12493c.jpg
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/88592_12493d.jpg
http://edmonton.comfree.ca/images/88593_12493e.jpg

Building was finished in Oct 2005

http://edmonton.comfree.ca/display.html?code=12493

[a-k]

.

[Xelebes]

A house built in 1958 in the Lynnwood neighbourhood of Edmonton. When I go out my front door, look right and I see a trio of skyscrapers. Walk across the alley and onto the artery and I can see the tips of the University.

I live in my parent's basement. This place will eventually need to be torn down and rebuilt, but I think it might be torn down to make way for the WLRT expansion.

[big W]

'specially since that means that you're four blocks east of me.

No hes 6 blocks east of me. I think too many of us Edmonton forumers live near each other.

[401_King]

http://www.demexicoacanada.ca/images/from_cn_tower_cn_shadow_pl_4x4.jpg

my stomping ground

[elsonic]

90¤ SE view from my balcony.

taken last week very very early in the morning.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/7185/dscn09960001uj1.jpg

[MTL-514]

my dwelling is a condo, on both the 3rd and the 4th (top) floors of this 2004-built 6-unit building in the Verdun borough of Montreal
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/377217409_78b4ffd340_b.jpg

it's on this little out-of-the way street,
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/377228815_19b4844919_b.jpg

which is not all that out of the way as it is a 10 minute walk to the metro, and less than a 10 minute subway ride into to the heart of downtown, which one can see here, from my back balcony:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/377228820_3d106c84b1_b.jpg

out back, I also see this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/377228822_e445741ec9_b.jpg

and this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/377228823_c2704aa9a4_b.jpg

a little less interesting, out front I see this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/377249082_7bd328d924_b.jpg

this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/377249080_7613e47801_b.jpg

and this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/377249081_6175587ab8_b.jpg

despite the proximity of the expressway, however, it is really not very noisy out front. and in back (and indoors) we hear nothing

[Andy6]

From my balcony, although zoomed quite a bit:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/377407203_22d1b6b494_b.jpg