A STRIKING TRANSFORMATION
Renovated Douglasdale house makes striking statement, inside and out
Renovation elevates ’80s bungalow
When a lot backs on to something special, such as the latest show home by Ultimate Renovations, outdoor living matters even more.
The company — which has been active in Calgary for 40 years — created a space that will make fresh air time a must year-round.
Located at 108 Douglas Woods Grove S.E., the nine-time winner of Renovator of the Year elevated a quaint early 1980s bungalow into a luxury home filled with innovative features and elegant details.
It’s 2,938 square feet with one bedroom above grade and three in its developed basement. It has a double front-attached garage with an 18-foot by eight-foot overhead door. The garage ceiling was raised two feet, allowing for a car lift to house four vehicles in total.
Backing on to a golf course, owners of this home will benefit from both the convenient access to playing 18 holes, and the views overlooking the greens.
The home boasts 490 square feet of covered outdoor living space. It’s a rustic but upscale retreat for sharing a morning cup of coffee or a having friends over to watch the hockey game.
Accessed through a six-foot patio door off the kitchen and a 12foot patio door off the great room, people will stay toasty thanks to a 10-foot natural gas heater and wood-burning fireplace. It also features natural batu wood decking and soffit, with a glass railing.
Natural batu is used on the home’s stately custom front door, as well.
Those high-end materials give each space throughout the home a heightened sense of visual interest
and importance. The great room is a strong example of this.
Its linear gas fireplace is surrounded by striking full-height tile and flanked by grand walnut built-in cabinets. There’s also an eye-catching 10-foot barrel ceiling made from luxury vinyl plank.
Within those cabinets are a variety of functional storage features that help these generous spaces contain even more.
Walnut is also used in the kitchen — including its fridge panelling — along with white medium-density fibreboard. The appliances are upscale, including a chimney-style hood fan and induction cooktop.
Its counters are quartz, including an expansive four-foot by nine-foot island with a sink and eating bar that comfortably seats four people. Next to the island is a charming bench and table.
Illuminating this space is a combination of elegant pendant lighting, LED (light-emitting diode) pot lights in an uncommon square shape, and solar tubes. Also used in other ends of the home, including the basement, solar tubes — a feature that captures and spreads natural light — supplement the home’s generous use of windows.
The home boasts low-emissivity black metal clad windows. Emissivity is a measure of heat loss.
Elevating the atmosphere in its master bedroom, which has access to the outdoor living space, is a stylish elongated electric fireplace. The bedroom connects to a spacious walk-in closet with custom cabinets and a striking spa-reminiscent ensuite.
This ensuite stars a free-standing tub and a 73-inch by 40-inch tile shower with 10 mm glass.
Joining the bedrooms in its 1,332-square-foot walkout basement — one of which accesses the lower patio — are highlights such as a full-height 10mm glass-encased wine display, walk-up wet bar with walnut shelves, and entertainment space with a box-shaped gas fireplace flanked by dark blue cabinets with walnut touches.