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Ryan Ingimundson of ICAN Construction in Rosser, Man., discusses this whole-house renovation project carried out in Winnipeg’s classy Tuxedo district.
Before photo of the 1992 Spanish-style villa located in Winnipeg’s Tuxedo neightbourhood.
The home was built for a really reputable Winnipeg jeweller in I guess the early ’90s. We were actually invited to that home two other times from two previous clients that were looking to renovate. And they never ended up proceeding with it once we gave them some budgetary numbers. It’s got an indoor pool and a very vast space. The yard is obviously limited for the size of the home. We were going to do a light indoor reno and possibly some exterior stuff and then as we dove into it the clients brought in a designer from Calgary. So we kind of hit the reset button and decided we were going to go for it. The design concept was French villa. We unskinned this thing inside and out. The whole exterior and the landscaping.
The original had some posts and some terrible, terrible chain link fencing had been put up behind the house. So someone had made a really bad decision in their designs over the years where they were looking for privacy. That all came out and we excavated this down to solid dirt again and then re-landscaped the whole thing with an outside fireplace and patio and an exterior golf green into a stunning area. It’s a very well-known property in Winnipeg so we just kind of shot for the stars. Water fountains and the works. We were doing a full 7,000-square-foot inside reno, as well as the exterior and the landscaping all in one motion. We could have anywhere between 25 and 30 guys on site per day.
Before shot of the back wall with no direct access to the back yard.
We put an addition on that wall. That was the existing pool wall to a deck that didn’t actually have a door, which was remarkable that someone built a deck there. We took that wall back out to the edge of that 45-degree angle and then came out a certain distance. We were stuck to hit parameters to what we could do for variance but we took what we could to expand the inner entertainment area because there’s a full seating area with a full-on kitchen barbeque. You know, keg taps, wine – the whole works this place has it all. Then you’re able to walk out and enjoy the golf green while you’re having a beverage at the inside bar.
There are garden doors that walk out from both the pool room and the great room, and there’s a big fireplace. You can see the fireplace there, it’s all done in Belgard stone with very ornate stone handrails and water fountains.
Those are wide-open ceilings. So that’s like 24-foot ceilings. The windows came from All Weather, pre-painted black. The roof was all old clay tile, so all the clay tiles came off and we went to a raised-ridge high profile. It’s very accentuated with lots of ridging in the tile or in the in the roofing. We squared all the windows. All the round windows came out and we squared the whole thing. The design was to try and change that whole facade from that Spanish look more to the French. The arch is something out-of-date that we don’t really do a lot of anymore and to try to swap out all those old window units and then do it round would have been a nightmare to try and template. So it was simpler and it gave the design a lot cleaner line as well as more light.
We went to an acrylic cladding. There was an existing crown moulding underneath the old Spanish style, and then we took those all of and we used a great big 16-inch architecture moulding all around the bottom of the soffit. And the we did all new exterior fixtures. They did that in two layers with mesh and the whole house was scaffolded for months.
Then we did underground sprinklers and the he whole thing is electrically wired, too. There’s power and lighting and everything everywhere. A lot of accent lighting and music, so it’s a pretty big hit on Halloween. We did gemstone lighting all around the perimeter of the house like in the soffit. So the puck lighting does it all, like, you could play it to music or use it as accent lighting – it is pretty spectacular.
Some people would actually walk by and clap and say “Oh, we can’t wait to see what it looks like.” So they did an open house for the neighbourhood with full-on bartenders and big spreads of food.