Vision to Reality
I remember the days and weeks after we decided to sell our big home on Elma Street in Okotoks. It was a time of visioning and distilling down to core principles. What criterion would determine our next step? Certain things rose to the top like being in a downtown core and it being a walkable neighbourhood. Access to nature was important. Reducing and/or eliminating our debt load emerged as a priority as we weighed our options. Shortly after seeing our current lot in downtown High River, both of us zeroed in on the vision that SEED Homes was sharing at that spring's trade show in Okotoks. An environmentally sustainable design, a robust steel structure inspired by the company's industrial heritage, and a price point that would make being debt free within reach. We had our first meeting at the nascent SEED Homes just a few days later and began the journey that brought us to today. Heather dived into the design process almost immediately. Starting with the total dimensions of
