17 WESTMORELAND RD - SOLD

The Essentials

A comprehensively and pleasingly renovated bungalow in Strathcona Park. Three bedrooms on the main level, an open floor plan, finished basement with access to the garage, and private landscaped gardens. We don’t think you'll see better this season.

The Bigger Picture

If you stuck a pin into the heart of Strathcona Park it’s likely you’d land somewhere right around 17 Westmoreland Road, or in the playing fields behind the house. Just be careful, you don’t want to hurt anyone.

It’s a bungalow, one of those with the garage tucked in underneath and with direct entry into the lower level. That basement is no afterthought here, it must be said. So often I head downstairs with low expectations but here you’ll find a big, splashy rec room and fourth bedroom, a custom laundry, three-piece bathroom, and mud room. It’s all rather impressive. It strikes me that If you got home tired, and trudged inside this way, you might just that there’s really very little need to head upstairs. I can imagine installing a gym down here (if I was more into gyms) and buying some thick white towels and setting them in a stack outside the bathroom. I could be in training for a movie. Working on a transformation worthy of Christian Bale. Or I might sit in a well-lit corner and read a book. I haven’t decided.

Truth is, you’ll likely make it to the ground floor because the reward is just so darned handsome (and your family awaits and they love you, they’ve missed you, where have you been?).

The house has been professionally renovated from top to bottom in the last half dozen years, with a bright open plan, quartz counters, subway tile, a gas fireplace, heated floors in the main bathroom, modern lighting, and engineered hardwood floors. And that’s just me walking around pointing at things. A full list of renovations, including this year’s shingles, is included below.

There really is nothing left to do, except perhaps retreat to the private, exquisitely landscaped grounds. The effect outside is stately (and cinematic!). Where I grew up I saw more modest houses with iron fences wrapped around them and herds of domesticated deer being fed by children on day trips. This is not like that, but it’s close.

The Floor Plans