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Inside a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 4,268-square-foot house on the west side of Vancouver
Address: 2190 West 18th Avenue, Vancouver
Price: $6,680,000
Listing: R2254135
The skinny: Seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 4,268-square-foot house on the west side of Vancouver.
The bling: Finding a move-in ready home is such a trial these days. You spend millions of dollars for a house that’s all raw concrete and glass, plain walls and white ceilings and half the time they don’t even put curtain poles up, let alone rods capable of holding the kind of elaborate swag any person worth their posh points puts in their windows. Standards, darling, should never be allowed to slip. Floors should be marbled, lights chandeliered and beds most definitely four-postered or, at the very least, sleighed. All this modern stripped-back décor might suit the nouveau riche among us, but if you want to show your old-money credentials (oh, it’s OK, no one will check) source some very rare, expensive hardwood and panel the place to within an inch of its envelope. Seriously, if money talks, mahogany positively yodels top drawer. Throw in a gilt-flecked barrel-vaulted ceiling here, a mahogany-coffered one there, and there’s really no mistaking you for someone lacking in good taste cash. Oh no, never.
The hidden extras: Suite for the help, media room, garden pond with waterfall and, oh yes, you get to keep those magnificent drapes.