Show and tell
Doors open to a new display home at Morgan Heights in South Surrey
MORGAN HEIGHTS
Project size: 101 single- family homes Residence size: Three to four bedrooms; 2,000 — 2,200 sq. ft, plus 850 — 1,000- sq.- ft unfinished basement Price: From $ 836,900 including net HST Sales Centre: 16092 – 28A Avenue, South Surrey Hours: Noon — 5 p. m., daily Telephone: 604- 560- 1053 Email: morgan@ qualico. com Developer: Morgan Foxridge Homes, a Qualico Company Interior Design: First Impression Design Web: www.morganheightsliving.ca
“This is our fun level,” says Diane Zarola, sales and marketing manager at Foxridge Homes. “Everybody just has a ball down here.” She is referring to the design centre in the new show home that just opened at Morgan Heights in South Surrey.
“The really fun things that our buyers get to do is pick every colour that goes into their home from the outside in,” she explains. The showhome’s basement and garage have been converted to a showroom stocked with samples of everything from flooring, countertops, tiles and cultured stone to cabinet doors, stair rails, mirror frames, lighting, door handles and paint chips. “We have a nice big work area for people. They end up bringing all these different samples to the table and laying it all out with our guidance.”
Homeowners start by choosing stone for the exterior and building the paint colours.
“There’s lots of different choices so that the community is not cookie cutter,” Zarola says. Exterior colours and stonework cannot be identical within five houses. “Every house is different,” says Zarola. “Two homes could be exactly the same floor plan and you’d never know it walking into them because it just looks so different from one to the other.”
At Morgan Heights, the 101 lots vary in size — from less than 3,000 square feet to more than 7,000 — shape and topography, so Foxridge designs every home individually. Although plans are reused, each is customized to make the most of the lot and maximize views by, for example, changing the location of the master bedroom to overlook the view.