Open-concept layouts were not yet the next big thing, let alone the
next passé thing. Lower levels were called basements and flex rooms
had yet to be invented. Your kitchen appliances were white, avocado
green or harvest gold and a typical bedroom en suite would not be
described as "spa-like." Toilets didn't wash and blow-dry users, and
since HGTV Canada wouldn't hit our digital sets until 1997, few people
realized that a house was not a home without quartz countertops.
But perhaps the greatest change — in every sense of the word — has
been in the evolution of energy-efficient homes. Coincidentally, it
was in 1980 that the federal government launched its Super Energy
Efficient Home program, which led to construction of the first R-2000
homes a few years later.
YOUR KITCHEN
APPLIANCES WERE WHITE,
AVOCADO GREEN OR
HARVEST GOLD AND A
TYPICAL BEDROOM EN
SUITE WOULD NOT BE
DESCRIBED AS "SPA-LIKE."
FOXRIDGE HOMES — 31 Hummingbird Cove — Headingley — Taylor Farm
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CRAFTED WITH CARE
Now building in Aurora, Bonavista and Devonshire Park.
