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MOUNTAINLIFE
WINTER /SPRING2016
THE COMMUNITY
Just down the street, Colin and Elisha Duncan bought a 1973 Gothic off
the original owners in 2013. The couple had been looking at condos
and resident-restricted housing, but Colin admits that Elisha kept
nudging them towards the Gothic. “It wasn’t the fact that it was an
A-frame, even though they are inherently cool,” Colin says. “Elisha saw
the big picture and recognized the size of the lot, the sun path and the
location within the community. We took down a lot of trees, opened
everything up, and right away four different realtors left cards on our
doorstep asking if we wanted to sell.”
While the property evaluation lists their home as less valuable than
the newwood cook stove they put into it and their kitchen is crowded
withmore than a single person in it, the Duncans say it’s been
astonishingly easy to simply “make it work” in their new home.
“We have 700 square feet, but we have a king size bed,” Colin says.
“No other place in our price range could fit a king size. The kids share
a room, but they are five and three—they don’t fight. It might make
them get along better. Sure, if you’re coming to a party at my place,
we will be outside around the fire, but we have a flat lot on the valley
floor that gets sun all day. We’re by a bus stop, a park, and the Valley
Trail. We can bike to the Village or the skate park with the kids and
everything is super easy compared to a house up on the hill.”
