CASH & CARS LOTTERY HOME HOLDS SPECIAL MEANING
This year's grand prize features `Luca's Room' designed in honour of child with cancer
Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-man has spun his way into this year's Cash and Cars lottery home.
As the Alberta Cancer Foundation unveiled its Edmonton grand prize package — a $1.2-million, 2,765-square-foot single-family home plus $10,000 cash — you could say that with a great lottery home comes great responsibility.
That play on words on the popular Spider-man proverb of “with great power comes great responsibility” hit home for builder Kimberley Homes as it opened the doors to the Luca in the west Edmonton neighbourhood of the Uplands at Riverview.
“This year, the battle families need to take on when their loved ones are sick has hit very close to home for the Kimberley team,” said Lauren Ruggiero, Kimberley's marketing lead and sales experience coach. “Luca, the three-yearold son of one of our Kimberley team members, was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2021. We have named this year's model in his honour and dubbed one of the bedrooms in this year's lottery home `Luca's Room.'”
Kimberley, which has provided the lottery with the Edmonton grand prize home for 12 consecutive years, worked with Jamie Banfield Design on the home for the lottery's 22nd edition. They took Luca's love of Spider-man and created a superhero themed room with just a touch of Edmonton Oilers in the mix, Luca's favourite team. That room includes a full-wall, comic-book mural of the webslinger, as well as other fun accessories.
“We will be holding his story close to our hearts as we work with the Alberta Cancer Foundation to fundraise for the 17 cancer centres across Alberta,” said Ruggiero. “We believe it is important to build up our communities, not just in the literal sense, but in ways that support and contribute to causes that affect families in our community.”
The 2021 lottery home offers an innovative floor plan, has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and a finished basement, which adds an additional 1,000 square feet of living space.
The main floor has a unique, open-concept layout with a large U-shaped kitchen complete with custom built-ins for appliances and storage. Open to the great room, the kitchen's large central island makes entertaining easy. A centre staircase provides separation between the great room and the dining nook while wainscotting
details in that nook create a luxurious feel. As to the style of the house, Banfield noted that while prohibition may be long dead, the speakeasies and cocktails it spawned are still with us.
“We took much inspiration for this home from the masculine and subtle trend of the bootleg liquor era,” said Banfield, pointing out this was done by layering smoky woods like walnut with mixed metals, unique lighting and varied patterns. Then, added Banfield, there are vintage inspired fixtures like
a modern take on the claw foot tub (in the ensuite) or the masculine playful flair in the lower level entrainment space — with floorto-ceiling panelling and vintage inspired lighting — that are fused into a timeless feel to allow any family to call it home.
“Last year, the lottery raised more than $3 million,” said Ryan Campbell, director of corporate relations for the Alberta Cancer Foundation. “We hope to top that again this year,” he said, adding it's important to buy a ticket “because
one in two Albertans will hear the words `you have cancer' in their lifetime and the Alberta Cancer
Foundation, with your help, is here to make life better for them and their families.”