GREENBRYRE MANSION The Making of an Urban Legend Three years in, still with months to go before completion, a giant crane reaches into the grey skyline over the Greenbryre Estates construction site of what is very well Saskatoon’s most talked about home. Hard-hatted workers secure
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a load of pre-stressed hollowcore concrete slabs, destined for the underground theatre roof beneath the driveway. Golfers playing through on the adjacent South Number One hole pause with a curious gaze. The home’s mythical
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proportions and grand features have been a topic of discussion in the housing industry since ground breaking in 2014. Indeed, Decora Homes’ biggest ever single-family residential project leaves one searching for adjectives, and defies easy
description. What comes to mind time and again is simply, breathlessly, “Wow.” “It’s a project that’s talked about a lot, some fact, some fiction,” says Whitney Romero, interior design consultant with Decora. “The one thing I can