When a huge international event comes to a city, new infrastructure and housing developments are sometimes built for its attendees, and the benefits of these projects last long after the crowds have parted.
Millennium Water Development has turned athlete housing from Vancouver's Olympics into condominiums and hired that city's best and brightest interior designers to stage the units like home. The Cross Decor & Design did the space in these images, and if you'd like to replicate the decor everything included is available for purchase here. This is yet another clever mechanism by which designers are sustaining their businesses - by creating stores and cutting out the middlemen.
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where is that octopus picture from? looks awesome.
If you click the link above to go to the Cross Decor & Design you can purchase the picture there. Not cheap though - $5,000!
@JaredC555: I agree it's beautiful and went to the sale link above. You can purchase it for a mere $5,000.
Ah! I love the octopus and I think I've seen it elsewhere recently. It's mocking me.
@everyone above me: Not as stunning, but allposters has an octopus triptych ... $34.99 for each in the set. (Scroll down the page for Ttriptych I and II)
@A from IsItAHouseYet Thank you so much for the accessible octopus triptych!
A from IsItAHouseYet -
Brilliant!!!!
You know what's funny? Vancouver's taxpayers are likely going to have to foot the bill for these condos. Why? Because apparently nobody wants to pay upwards of $600,000 to well over $1 million for small condos near a not-so-super area of a small provincial Canadian town. These condos are actually selling for a higher per-sq-ft price than many in downtown Manhattan.
Evidently Canadians can't learn from the US property crash.
Vancouver is a "small provincial Canadian town"? Uhhhh. If you say so, monkeylizard.
I assume they cost $600,000+ because they're in downtown Vancouver. It's not a cheap city.
I agree--Vancouver is definitely not a small provincial Canadian town.
I've lived in Vancouver my whole life, and it's is no NYC, but the mountain and waterfront views you get from the downtown core make for a stunning and rare landscape.
While we may not be happy about some of the expenses coming out of our pockets due to the Olympics, there's a reason it's expensive to live in Vancouver. It's a magnificently beautiful city, and it's worth every penny of overpriced real-estate.
tessamh, i'm sure that's what they said about miami (minus the mountains) and las vegas (minus the water).
i was being a little facetious with "town" but it's no bigger than seattle, where you can live for less than half the price. i'd hate to be young and living there. especially since you are all on the hook for this bad real estate investment.
all that aside, that octopus poster is amazing.