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03 01 The Gifford Residence has expansive windows in the living room that look out onto the Kawartha Lakes region. 02 The exterior shows stones surrounding the home. 03 The kitchen island provides a perfect place to lounge with ample bar seating.
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Visit the NEW Whelan’s Flooring Centre for all your flooring needs a full-time musician. But to build a house, he says, is not that different from recording a song. Smith says he enjoys being creative in both professions, and that each discipline has taught him about the other. “I know many times in the studio we might be three quarters of the way through the song and in my mind I can hear an oboe or a cello, so we interject that,” Smith says. “Nine and a half times out of 10 it’s the right call. In the same way, it’s a rare commodity in our business to have people who can run a business physically on-site and be able to coordinate sub trades. There are good builders who don’t run their companies well. There are good managers who don’t build things well. After almost 30 years, I guess for me the proof’s in the pudding.”
also designed a series of terraced gardens outside the home as it faces the lake. As if designing and building homes and making music were not enough of a creative outlet, he also provides the photography. “I’m able to look through my lens and create a story around that picture,” he says. “I just held a seminar for builders. I told them they need to see a story in each picture. Through my photography and building and knowing the people I have and being able to look at buildings around the world, I’ve realized that design can be building, writing music, taking pictures. It’s all a design-build and how you fit that piece of art together.”
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The proof has definitely come. For instance, one of Smith’s projects--the Hoag Residence--was just honored as runner-up in a national awards ceremony for custom homes. Situated on a hill overlooking a lake, its blend of natural materials such as stone and wood is complemented by a Smith-generated design that balances modern and traditional style. R&M
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