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Your chance to looky-loo at gorgeous local homes (PHOTOS)

Free, self-guided Parade of Homes tour lets public inside stunning custom homes and renovations
Versa Platinum - Custom Home - Langley 2
This new custom home by Versa Platinum is a modern revival of the Spanish Tudor style, with contemporary but classic interiors, set in a rural Langley landscape

If you’re anything like us, you probably love peeking inside other people’s beautiful homes – and now’s your chance.

Sunday, June 10, is the 25th annual Parade of Homes, which allows the public inside 15 stunning new custom homes and transformative renovations across the Metro Vancouver region.

This free, self-guided tour is between 10am and 4pm, and those who register can enter as many of the 15 homes as they like – provided they can get round them all. And since they are spread from West Vancouver to Langley, that would be no small feat.

The parade is organized by the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association, with all the homes’ building and renovation work on display carried out by member companies, and is sponsored by FortisBC. Representatives of the member companies will be on hand throughout the day to answer questions about home building and renovation.

The 15 homes on the tour comprise:

• West Vancouver: a renovation of an oceanview home;

• North Vancouver: three new custom homes (including one with a separate coach house) and one renovation/addition;

• Vancouver: two house renovations, a condo reno and a new custom laneway home;

• Coquitlam: a kitchen/great room renovation;

• Surrey: a whole-house renovation and a new custom home;

• Langley: a brand-new Spanish Tudor revival custom mansion; and

• Port Moody: an indoor-outdoor home renovation.

For more details, to register for your “passport” and get a map of the tour, go to www.gvhba.org/Parade. Registered participants will also get access to an additional 10 virtual home tours.

Below and in the main image above are some photo highlights of just five of the homes included on the tour.

 

Shakespeare - Custom Build with Coach House - North Vancouver
“Poetry” is a Built Green Platinum home by Shakespeare Homes and Renovations, on a sprawling wooded lot in North Vancouver, complete with coach house

 

Miracon_SOUTHCREST_South Surrey
This custom-built family house in South Surrey by Miracon Developments checks all the boxes, including master walk-in closet, finished basement and this great deck

 

Bolder Homes - Canterbury Crescent, North Vancouver
This grand North Vancouver custom home, by Bolder Homes, is certified Built Green Platinum and includes a wine room, movie theatre and sauna

 

RJR Construction (Renovation)- Coquitlam
In Coquitlam, this open-concept great room renovation by RJR Construction includes a gourmet kitchen with skylight