#27330 Premium
Mid Century Modern Home in Parklike Setting
House • Victoria BC Canada
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Statistics
Listed January 2024
Views 258
General overview
Beautiful home next to two parks! Enjoy a peaceful setting and safe neighborhood. Two bedrooms and office upstairs and bachelor style suite downstairs. Comfortably sleeps 5-8 if using pull-out couch downstairs. Office can also be used for sleeping if need be as we have an extra mattress on the child’s room bed.
Renovated kitchen with open concept dining /living room, great for entertaining and huge island for cooking.
Lovely deck off dining room with double French doors and easy access to BBQ. We also have a functional wood-burning fireplace which is great in the winter for some relaxing ambiance! We always have some wood out back!
Lots of yard to relax under the apple trees and enjoy the mature shrubs and flowers, overlooking the park next door. Prime real estate in one of the best areas of Victoria! We have a hammock for summer and a little veggie garden. The yard borders a park, so there are soccer fields and a playground beside our house.
We are both working professionals who take pride in and great care of our home and are sure you will find it comfortable and a great place to relax after seeing all the amazing places in the Victoria area.
Features
Washer
Dishwasher
Clothes dryer
Oven
Microwave
Coffee machine
Fridge
Iron
Hair dryer
Heating
TV
WiFi
High Speed Internet
Bathtub
First aid kit
Smoke alarms
Fire extinguisher
Bed sheets
Towels
Workspace
Fireplace
Toys
Gym
BBQ
Balcony
Garden / yard
Deck / patio / courtyard / terrace
Covered porch / verandah
Bikes
Camping gear
Standup paddleboard
House rules
Suitable for infants under 2
Suitable for children ages 2-12
Pets welcome
No smoking
Allergens
Smoke free
Dates of Availability
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Neighbourhood
This is a residential neighborhood, but we are very centrally located in Victoria. We live right next to a park and Elementary school, so there is a lot of space and playgrounds nearby if you are traveling with younger kids! Please see the description below about proximity to other locations. Thanks!
Nearest airport
Victoria International Airport is about a 30-minute drive.
Getting around
You can walk to the local grocery store, the Root Cellar, which is a 5-minute walk just down the road. We are about a 10-15 minute walk in either direction to three other commercial complexes where you will find other grocery stores, pharmacies, beer and wine stores, cannabis (yes marijuana stores!), coffee shops, and restaurants.
We are a 15-minute drive to downtown Victoria, or about a $20 (CAD) taxi ride if you want to hit the town. Downtown is beautiful, you can walk the inner harbor, check out the Parliament buildings (extra pretty at night), take horse carriage tours, whale watching tours, the BC Museum, lots of shopping, and amazing restaurants.
If you like sports, the University of Victoria is a 10-minute bike ride up the road and often has live soccer and basketball games, among other things! We are also very close to the Lochside Trail, which connects to the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, which is a fantastic bike and pedestrian trail. If you bike from our house on these trails, it takes about 25-30 minutes to downtown Victoria and is relatively flat. It takes you over the Gorge Bridge. The Gorge is a popular place for kayaking or paddle boarding, as well as floating hot tub rides!
We live about a 5-7 min drive from our house to Cadboro Beach, which has some amazing sand and a massive playground with Ogogpogo monster and whale structures to climb! Kids LOVE this park - it also has a zipline-style ride. We love going here in the spring to fall months.
Cadboro Bay is gorgeous and has calm shallow water, albeit COLD water most of the year, it's great on a hot day, especially after the tide comes in and the warm sand helps heat the water!
We also love Willows Beach and Gonzales Beach in town, about a 15-20 minute drive each, respectively.
If you want to visit the famous Butchart Gardens, it is about a 20-minute drive to the Brentwood Bay area from our house.
We also like cruising Dallas Road and Cook Street Village. Dallas Road is a great place to walk your dog or watch the parasailers, as well as take in the stunning Olympic Mountain views. Cook Street village is a sort of trendy, hippy village, with some great ethnic foods, a fantastic pub (The Beagle), and other cool little shops. It's about a 15-minute drive from our house.
There is also no shortage of public swimming (indoor) pools and skating rinks fairly close. Gordon Head Rec centre is closest, about a 6-7 min drive but CommonWealth Pool is fun, with its wave pool and waterslide.
Victoria is a lovely small city.
If you haven't been, it was recently voted one of the best small cities in the world by Conde Nast magazine in 2023! Go Victoria!
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Cristina
Outgoing professional, friendly, and well-traveled wife and mom of one daughter and one dog. Love the outdoors, horses, skiing, camping, cycling, learning languages and experiencing new cultures! I have been an English teacher since 2001 and taught in Japan and Korea. I work at our local college and am a passionate educator. I also love to paint, most of the artwork downstairs is mine and I am also the author of a children's book, Murray the Dragon! :-) My husband Tom works from home as a fire alarm technician (well programmer for mostly TransLink and SkyTrain, BCRTC, in Vancouver) and is an avid runner. Our daughter is Aelyn, a very sweet girl, we think! We also have a rescue dog named Marlo, who is a Jindo mix from Korea. We try to bring him with us on local trips, but have trusted friends who can take him if traveling farther. Thanks for checking our profile!
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Jul 4, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025 (Flexible)
"Two or three weeks sometime in summer 2025 would be ideal!"
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"Two to three weeks in summer 2025... flexible dates."
Dec 26, 2024 - Jan 2, 2025
Dec 26, 2024 - Jan 2, 2025
Jul 1, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025 (Flexible)
"2-3 weeks in Denmark would be great for summer 2025!"
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Jul 1, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025 (Flexible)
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Jun 27, 2025 - Aug 29, 2025 (Flexible)
"Summer 2025"
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