Architectural zen like retreat nestled in the forest, steps to Bowen Bay Beach.This unique property is not to be missed! www.bowenislandrealestate.info
This is a beautiful property. It almost has the feel of a short term guest rental where it would be nice to stay for a week get away, very nice indeed :-) $300 a night maybe
I LOVE that they were careful in not destroying nature (trees, etc) when they build the house. But the video is not great in showing how each room is attached. There is a huge room with 2 wooden pillars. Is this room attached to the house or build apart from the house.
Hi Rick I have used that house to hold retreats, everything in some form or other is attached ...except the "temple" with the pillars. It is is own separate building along a pathway on the propety. I used it for classes and the orginal owners/builders of the property used it a a Buddhist meeting place. It has its own little kitche and a bathroom and fits a lot of people. There is also a skylight over the.dais that looks up to an old Douglas Fir. Everything of the property was built with intention, care of nature...to be part of it and not take from it. The MAin house is long so that it runs the length of the stream and all windows hold space for the forest and sounds of water. Then there is a covered wooden walkway that holds chimes that you can walk in meditation which leads to the guest house which has two ruooms upstairs and laundry bathroom and art room downstairs. Everything about this place is magic...excpet...whoever buys it is going to have to sink a lot of money into it. It doesn't meet any regulations present day, so if any work starts, which it has to have done, the hole it will open is deep. That is why no locals have bought it yet and the price for the size of the property and location seems so good for what you get.
Yes, Keri-Anne, this is the perfect house for you! Let's work the power of manifestation. I can totally see you and Scott leaving and working int his space, and the boys exploring the woods :-)
I am so curious as to whether you manifested Ashoka. I used to hold small yoga retreats there and loved the place so much. It was built by Buddhists so you can imagine the energy and peace of the place. I would love to know that someone who wanted to hold true to its beauty was able to move in.
@@keri-annelivingstone7629 I wondered about that. Sorry it wasn't in the cards. i am glad you got a chance to see it though. We did the 2 minute walk to the beach each morning to meditate and had otters, seals and so many birds as company. I hope find a true "soul" home.
Watched videos like "family wraps home in greenhouse" in stockholm. I think it would be better to have this kind of framing surround a home. catwalk atrium over a tiny home in center would be ideal. from those videos a greenhouse appears to create a solar bubble and add protection from the elements. I wouldn't try to heat it. I'd make the framed area a daytime outside space during the winter months. A smaller inner home would maintain heat efficiently.
Not at all. I have held a number of retreats there in the colder season and the way all the areas are built they all get heat and retain it.Despite the forest they left in tact the shade doesn't keep it cold and damp, it keeps it cozy and gentle. There are a few fireplaces throughtout and a couple of areas that are solarium like. They catch every sunset on a massive west deck and the mid deck under the glass walkway has a hottub for those days you get a chill. It's the very large wolf spiders that like the cool forest that I had trouble with...they grow big there and keep showing in in bathtubs and sinks..always good for a change in breathing pattern. 😅
Why would you want to go anyway quickly? The view is stunning and to wake up to that would be relaxing and comforting! There's too much hustle and bustling going on for people not "smelling the flowers" and end up dead because of their fast paced life! I live in a city and it's too much but I've been here all my life and I'm loyal but it gets crazy!
Very nice, but it looks like it'll take a boatload of cash to to bring to it's best self. Kitchen is small and we didn't get to see the bathrooms. Not to worry though, there's always someone with deep enough pockets to take this on... and probably tear it down, clear the lot, and build their dream home.
Toothpicks to a tornado - can't happen there. Fires from earthquakes and cuts from glass and wood could wipe out the cities you'd move to. Please come to Boston... ... ...
if I had money to buy it - I would buy something else outside of Bowen Island and outside of Canada and would had better climate, better quality of construction and much closer to everything else for much less money, lol. I have been on Bowen three time (just live really close), had good times, but no way I go there again - boring as hell and living there is super inconvenient. And those wood frame houses.... terrible crap.... just look at those low ceilings in this several million dollar mansion.
