Oakwoods, the brand new Aragon Properties apartment and townhome improvement in Esquimalt, is imbued with the identical old-world appeal that characterizes Rosemead Home, the revitalized boutique lodge that’s a part of the redevelopment of the four-acre website in Lampson Road, Esquimalt.

The primary Oakwoods condos in the marketplace are these in Flora, a 58-unit constructing the place potential consumers can select from 24 totally different flooring plans starting from studio residences (395 sq. toes) via one-, two- and three-bedroom houses together with “mushy lofts” — and the 2 degree (1,801 sq. toes) houses with hovering ceilings.

“(The mushy loft) is non-traditional — this design works for individuals who like to entertain,” says Lenny Moy, president and founding father of Aragon.

Gentle loft items comprise two ranges; coming into the apartment the bedrooms are on the upper degree with just a few steps main all the way down to the decrease degree or sunken residing area that features the kitchen, eating space and front room. The excessive ceiling above this sunken residing space provides the unit its loft-like atmosphere.

Inside home windows between the bedrooms and the decrease residing space could be saved open — to benefit from borrowed mild streaming in via the expansive folding doorways that open onto a patio — or closed to make the area extra non-public.

When accomplished,

Oakwoods

will comprise 179 houses in 4 phases. The master-planned improvement additionally contains

Rosemead Home

with 28 visitor rooms and the award-winning

Janevca Kitchen & Lounge

restaurant, Salt & Ivy Spa and a health centre together with many courtyards, gardens and paths.

The numerous vibrant floral hanging baskets alongside Oakwoods’ pathways and outside corridors are paying homage to the well-known baskets in Victoria, a few 10-minute drive from Esquimalt.

The unique constructing on the Lampson Road website has been via many iterations from its 1906 starting as a non-public dwelling designed by Samuel Maclure, a famend Canadian architect who additionally designed Hatley Fortress, now dwelling to Royal Roads College. The house was later used to supply lodging and respite to servicemen stationed in Victoria through the Second World Conflict. Over the a long time buildings had been added to create a vacationer vacation spot with a reproduction English village theme together with the 55-room Olde England Inn. The Inn closed within the late Nineteen Nineties, and the property modified possession a number of instances earlier than being acquired by Aragon in 2015.

“We wished to retain the mansion and mature bushes, so the event was strategically sited to maintain as most of the bushes as potential,” says Moy, noting the Garry Oaks on the property.

He provides that his imaginative and prescient for the event of Oakwoods included respecting and paying homage to the structure of the unique 1906 residence on the property however not emulating it.

Designed by Merrick Structure, that affect could be seen within the buildings’ steep roofs, uncovered gables and wooden parts, says Moy. The stone base on Rosemead Home impressed the stonework on the primary two flooring of Flora, he provides.

The six-storey Flora constructing displays the lodge affect Moy meant.

“We wished to be sure that whenever you come into the constructing it’s not a normal hall. We wished to make it like a lodge,” he says.

The wainscotting, deep inexperienced partitions — Farrow and Ball’s Forest Grove — and framed prints of English landscapes sourced within the U.Okay. by Moy on in depth shopping for journeys to buy furnishings and fittings all create a timeless and stylish atmosphere.

A few of his different standout purchases on these journeys embody furnishings from the Dorchester Lodge, crockery from the five-star Savoy Lodge and gates that may mark the doorway to the property, acquired from the set of the blockbuster TV sequence, The Crown.

In step with Aragon’s observe of together with a function wall in every of the houses it develops, most of the condos within the Flora constructing embody a wall constructed from reclaimed bricks Aragon sourced from demolished buildings elsewhere in British Columbia.

“In my thoughts the brick all the time brings a whole lot of heat to the room,” says Moy. “We spend a whole lot of effort in accumulating brick — we’re in all probability the most important used-brick purchaser within the province.”

“Once we be taught of a constructing that’s coming down, we speak to the final contractor or demolition contractor, and we ask for (the bricks). They’re loaded and delivered to our cleansing and sorting website earlier than they’re stacked,” he says, including that a few of these bricks at the moment are getting used within the Oakwoods improvement.

One other distinctive function of the event is that houses are heated and cooled utilizing a geothermal system that operates by utilizing heat water in winter and funky water in summer season to handle temperatures. Moy says Aragon will reward the system to the strata somewhat than promote it to a utility firm, guaranteeing there isn’t any leasing value within the strata price range.

Working with Moy, the inside design workforce created the three inside color schemes that may be seen within the Flora present suites: gray tones distinguish the Shoreline bundle, the Meadow palette displays extra pure hues, whereas darkish options anchor the Grove assortment. A particular function of all of the houses is the herringbone-patterned engineered oak flooring.

“They’re tongue and groove and must be laid in a (exact) approach to create that sample,” says Moy, noting in some instances flooring have been laid greater than as soon as to make sure the herringbone sample is ideal.

The kitchens embody quartz counter tops, polished tile backsplashes and Italian-made shaker type cabinetry. Main home equipment — fridge, fuel cooktop, electrical convection wall oven and dishwasher — are by GE Monogram whereas the built-in espresso machine is by Fulgor Milano. Choose houses embody a premier

GE Monogram equipment bundle together with some bigger home equipment and a wine fridge.

“We paid a whole lot of consideration to the inside (design) options of the kitchen the place we have now a whole lot of pullout pantry drawers and particular lighting that provides the area an ideal atmosphere,” says Moy, including that some flooring plans embody a desk within the kitchen. “I come from a household the place the whole lot was all the time (occurring) across the kitchen. (On this design) whoever’s cooking within the kitchen can (additionally) sit on the desk, do some pc work or take a look at recipes whereas they’re cooking,” says Moy.

Mission:

Oakwoods

Mission handle:

427 Lampson Road, Esquimalt, B.C.

Developer:

Aragon Properties Ltd.

Architect:

Merrick Structure

Inside designer:

Aragon Properties Ltd.

Mission dimension:

179 houses; 4 phases