Creating your landscape with Topographics

In 2001 we purchased our "older" home on Gabriola, with the awareness that it was going to be a home that would require an addition and substantial upgrades. We've really enjoyed the process of transforming our house, for us it was worth doing the renovations because we could do most of the work ourselves and we loved the neighborhood. For the last 10 years we've spent most of our time, effort and money into creating a suitable living space for a family of four, but we've spent a limited amount of time creating the "landscape". We took down some trees, leveled some areas and did some rock work, but it was a haphazard approach to say the least.
That all changed when we met Cameron and Laura-Jean Kelly a few years ago, and learned that they were landscape architects. After talking with them, my husband I decided that it would be great to have them help us create a plan for how we could develop our property. It seemed to us that it was easier to change a rock wall on a drawing then to move it in reality. Cameron and Laura-Jean worked on drawings, first they marked it out in its current state, then they gave us the drawings to show us how to develop it in stages. The end result will be a property where the outdoor "rooms" flow together. It will likely take us years to create this, but it will help to have a vision and we're looking forward to the process.
The kids were also invited to contribute their ideas to the design, so we're still working in the "deer tea party" section.
If you're looking to develop your property, I would recommend contacting Cameron & Laura-Jean.

Where is the Gabriola Real Estate Market at?

If shopping for a home or property on the Gulf Islands is in your future, we thought you may like to have a picture of what the current conditions are like. There are 79 homes listed on Gabriola Island at the moment and 45 vacant properties to choose from. 41 sales have taken place since January 1st this year, Coast Realty Group (Gabriola Village) Ltd. had the listing on 37 of those sales. The average home sales price is just over $300,000 (not including waterfronts & acreages) and the average time on the market ranges 3 – 5 months. If you’ve been considering a home on Gabriola, we can keep you up to date on the new listings as they become available via an email notification matched to your search criteria – send us an email at: lynch@discovergabriola.com – and we’d be glad to provide you this free service.