– by Deborah Rogers | Photography by nuttycake.com – Nature’s Retreat has a Built Green Platinum house certification (third-party awarded) for being energy efficient and environmentally responsible. From the very beginning of the design process it was important to its owners that they made the building process low-impact, and the house as energy efficient as […]
Seaside Homes: Industrial Evolution
– by Colin Eaton, Garden City Tree and Landscape – Years of landscape experience has allowed me the ability to visualize a completed landscape at the very outset and before any groundbreaking. Part of my job is communicating that vision to the client. Problems can arise if a client or employees are having difficulties visualizing
– by Mike & Lisa Dunsmuir, Step One Design – “According to Stats Canada, 15% of all workers in Canada are self employed, they account for about one-half of those who work at home. In 2008, 60% of self-employed workers did paid work at home.” (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2011001/article/11366-eng.htm#a11.) Speaking from experience, working from home isn’t always what
– By Linda Hunter – Services Healthy, Wealthy and Wise In business in Victoria for 60 years, Pearlman Lindholm Lawyers recently opened a branch office in downtown Sidney. As Victoria’s largest full-service law firm, Gordon Benn, the firm’s managing partner, is pleased to be able to service the Peninsula from their new Seaport Place location (opposite
– by Doreen Marion Gee – This is the second in a four-part series on some of the unique and local shops the Saanich Peninsula has to offer. Why on earth do people refer to facelifts, spa services and beauty creams as just “cosmetic” and “superficial?” There is nothing superficial about doing things that make us
Feeling Good About Yourself! Sea Breeze Laser & Beauty Clinic
