Sold for $1,080,000!
Urbandale-built Luxury Home in Riverside South.
Driving across the Rideau River via the beautiful Vimy Memorial Bridge, you'll find yourself in one of Ottawa's fastest-growing urban areas: Riverside South. This community of over 20,000 residents is situated on the eastern bank of the Rideau River, in close proximity to Barrhaven. Developed by top builders—including Urbandale, Richcraft, and HN—over the course of over two decades, Riverside South is filled with large luxury single-family homes. Amenities in central Barrhaven can be reached in under 10 minutes by car, while the newly-opened Trillium line LRT extension reduces the downtown commute to ~30 minutes.
It is in this bustling, vibrant community that you find this home—an extroardinary single-family home on one of Riverside South's most desirable streets. This home is a 2022-built Urbandale ‘Kelowna Pacific', bearing all the hallmarks of Urbandale's incredible build quality. Urbandale is known for their high energy efficiency & impeccable attention to detail; thus, this home is R-2000 Certified by Natural Resources Canada, meaning that it is 50% more energy efficient than a home built to code. This results in lower heating and cooling bills and a quieter living experience.
Premium features include triple-glazed windows above grade and higher R-value insulation throughout, making the home more quiet and keeping spaces warmer during the winter. Urbandale's ‘Proud Foundation' exterior insulation system (example seen above), protects the foundations from cracks and allows the basement exterior walls to be fully drywalled. High-efficiency equipment, including a heat pump, HRV, annd gas furnace, reduces the energy bill while being more environmentally friendly. Last but not least, copper water pipes are VOC-free, providing healthier water relative to PEX or plastic water pipes.
Urbandale's Kelowna model is one of their most popular 44′ models, with over 3,000 sq. ft. of living space. Uniquely, this home features a full guest suite on the first floor, with a convertible front facing office/bedroom plus a full 3-pc bathroom on the main floor with a frameless walk-in shower. This space provides incredible versatility, and could be used as a bedroom for guests or an in-law suite.
The Kelowna's living spaces are incredibly open-concept, with no structural posts throughout the expansive first-floor living & dining rooms. Four large windows fill the space with natural light & provide views of the backyard. A centrally-located 46″ oversized linear gas fireplace serves as a focal point, accentuated by stone tiling to ceiling and a painted white mantle. The home's premium finishes complete its modern aesthetic: natural-tone 4″ engineered hardwood floors, 12″ x 24″ Calacatta Tile, modern trim, custom light fixtures, and lever handles on all interior doors.
The entertainer's kitchen is a central highlight, with an L-shaped extension facing the backyard & a central island for entertaining. The kitchen features a dual-tone cabinet colour scheme, with contrasting dark-wood island cabinetry and high-gloss-white perimeter cabinetry. The upper cabinets are extended-height and include valence lighting. The kitchen includes tons of other premium features: quartz counters, stainless steel appliances, dark-tone subway tile backsplash, and soft-close hardware throughout. A large walk-in pantry provides tons of extra storage.
A spacious mudroom rounds out the first floor, complete with a large window for tons of natural light. The home has a full two-car garage.
Head upstairs to the second floor to find five large bedrooms, plus a laundry room and a spacious main bath. The oversized primary bedroom includes his & her's walk in closets, along with a spa-like primary ensuite, which includes a soaker tub and 36″ x 60″ frameless glass walk-in shower. Light-tone 12×24 calacatta tile contrasts with a dark-toned double vanity with oversized mirror and modern faucets. There are two windows: one above the tub, and another window in the oversized water closet.
Three of the four remaining bedrooms have walk-in closets, while Bedroom 5 has a glass entry door and can be used as a second home office. Super convenient for those working from home! All bedrooms include Urbandale's signature large windows, providing tons of light at all times of day.
Rounding out the home is a finished basement recreation room. One special feature here is that Urbandale includes egress windows throughout: four large egress windows let in tons of light, making the basement feel very bright and less cramped. As Urbandale drywalls the exterior basement walls, even in the unfinished areas, the basement includes space for two additional windowed bedrooms and a rough-in for a 3-pc bath.
Interested in learning more or in making this unique home yours? Give Guan Guan a call today at 613-618-6437!
