Our life styles have changed and with that the housing needs.

One fine morning a big bulldozer demolished a house on our street.  

One could not help but reflect on the history of this home and the owner who had purchased the house from the builder in 1960.  The couple, who lived there until 2015, raised their children in the three bedroom bungalow.  Over the forty-five years the house saw the kids grow up, heard the laughter at the dinner table, saw the owner taking care of the garden, placing bird feeders in the winter time, replacing the furnace and roof a couple of times, painting the inside, replacing wi

ndows and doing things home owners do. The house was a home, a happy home.   The house also saw the owners growing old and needing to move on.

The demolition of the house was fast and dusty. The bulldozer managed to eradicate sixty-one years of history in hours. The clouds of dust and noise of demolition signaled to the neighbors what will be ahead of them: 8-10 month of construction.

Soon there will be a large 2-storey house.  For some it will block a view they loved for years, for others it will shed shade on a sunny spot. It will be the first newly built home on a little street with bungalows and split level homes. Surely soon more new homes will appear on the street. 

When the original homes were build, the bedrooms had very small closets. Most of the homes came with one washroom. Often the home owners would add another washroom in the basement.

Over the years, many things have changed. As our needs and wants grew, so grew the appetite for larger homes with all the features modern houses have to offer.

May the new owners be as happy in their new home as the old one were in the original home.

May the new owners show their new home as many unique memories as the old house had. 

May the new owners create their own history on this beautiful street. M                                      P.S. Since it will be a noisy summer forus, we are open to BBQ invitations - with distance of course.