Small living spaces have been a trend in the news this past year with new micro-condos being built in Vancouver and across Canada - but how small can you go?
A Vancouver-based company, NOMAD Micro Homes, is hoping to start selling these tiny homes early next year.
These 100 square foot homes are about the size of most people's garden sheds - yet include a bathroom, kitchen, heat and a bedroom loft. There is even an option for solar panels and rainwater collection so you can live "off-the-grid".
You can order them online, and they ship the ready to assemble home to you to build yourself - kind of like IKEA.
Macleans - The Bank of Canada is adopting a neutral stance on the direction of interest rates over the next few years, signalling it may be as prepared to cut the cost of borrowing as to raise it, in light of persistently low inflation and a weaker forecast for economic growth through 2015.
As expected, the central bank announced Wednesday it is keeping the overnight rate which impacts short-term interest rates at one per cent, where it’s been for more than three years.
But removal of the central bank’s so-called tightening bias — in place since April 2012 — suggests at the very least that it’s even less anxious to raise interest rates than a few months ago.
Read the entire article at Macleans.ca:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/23/bank-of-canada-downgrades-economy-for-next-three-years/
Say goodbye to doorknobs...they are about to become a thing of the past.
Vancouver has adopted new amendments to the city building code that will require lever handles on all doors for all new construction in the city, effective March 2014. In the past, changes that have been made in Vancouver have spread to all of B.C....then to all of Canada.
