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Victoria (BC)Downtown Pied-à-Mer

Your luxury furnished rental accommodation vacation home
in the heart of Canada's most beautiful city.

The View

Actual views from your suite! (click images for larger photos)

The Suite

• Twelfth-floor suite, on quiet floor (only two other suites) with exceptional view.
• Almost 900 square feet of comfort and luxury
• Open-concept living/dining room with electric fireplace
• Gourmet fully equipped galley kitchen with breakfast bar
• One bedroom with queen-sized bed, his and hers closets with full-length sliding mirror doors and closet organizers, en suite four piece bath.
• Enjoy breakfast on your balcony, walkout from bedroom and from living room.
• Media Room / Den / Office with built-in desk.
• En suite free laundry facilities.
• Everything New!

The Style

Interior Designer Inge Ranzinger has created a spectacularly
beautiful and comfortable suite.

photos by Justine Murphy, Orange Eyes Photography

photos above by Justine Murphy, Orange Eyes Photography

photo by Joy Lingerfelt

The Artwork

Toronto Downtown Bed and Breakfast has always been a gallery for art collected during the owners' extensive travels around the world. Following this tradition in Victoria, we are adding some of our favourites, including (at right) this one from Carole LaRoche's gallery in Santa Fe: Presenting Two Red Wolves, our favourite.

Carole LaRoche captures a world of natural magic in every bright image she paints. Her birds, animals, and people glow from within. Their still, vulnerable faces reflect their inner souls, conjuring up angels, oracles, and shamans. Her Canyon Road gallery has long been a favored destination in Santa Fe. Her work faithfully reflects the artistic exuberance, romance, and spirituality of this trend-setting yet ancient city. Her art is available only through her Canyon Road Gallery in Santa Fe.

To the left is an original Untitled piece by our designer, Inge Ranzinger, selected especially to compliment the decor. Inge Ranzinger, who resides in Victoria, British Columbia, has worked as an artist for about seven years. While she had no former practical art training, she did study art at Camosun College for two years. Inge has been working in various forms of artistic careers from poster design to ad-writing and presently works as an interior designer in her own company called Boardwalk Designs. Inge is a juried artist and has exhibited at the Sooke Art Show as well as a number of galleries and high end inns around town. Her work is mostly acrylic on canvas with some mixed media. While she prefers to do misty, soft studies of landscapes, she varies her art with each show to include a series of abstracted musical instruments, street scenes, nudes and specific landscapes in various countries she has travelled, etc. You can reach Inge at ingeran@shaw.ca if you are interested in her work.      

Genoa Bay
by Christine Houghton

Genoa Bay is a quiet and picturesque bay on the north side of Cowichan Bay, at the south end of Sansum Narrows on Southern Vancouver Island, near Duncan and Maple Bay, not far from Christine Houghton's home in Nanaimo.

The Genoa Bay hanging in VDPaM's entry, was acquired from Shorewind Gallery in Tofino, in 2007.

Tulips and Laughing Cow
by David Gerstein (b. Born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1944)

After studying in Jerusalem, Paris, New York and London, Gerstein went through various phases of artistic expression, culminating in the 1980s in creations of a very personal and original style: half sculpture, half painting. He cuts out figures in wood or in metal sheets, paints them in cheerful colours, before juxtaposing and assembling several layers, creating an impression of relief and depth. These works are rich in anecdotes; everyday stories, where banality and trivial things are elevated by his artistic mastery and sense of humour. Through a wink at our civilization and a sharpened glance at the world that surrounds him, his astonishing works are full of life and movement, delightfully awakening the child in each one of us. The success of Gerstein is reflected in purchases by museums and international institutions, together with exhibitions in the world's greatest galleries.

There is a veritable gallery of art at Victoria Downtown Pied-à-Mer.

The Features

• Secure underground parking for one standard-sized car.

• Locking storage room for your bicycles.

• Frigidaire Stainless-Class series appliances: refrigerator, electric stove and dishwasher.
• Insinkertor (garbage disposer).
• Combination of satin aluminum framed reeded glass and windswept cabinetry.
• Solid black granite countertops.
• Travetine backsplash.

• Engineered maple hardwood flooring/ berber carpeting.
• Nine-foot ceilings.
• Almost floor-to-ceiling windows.
• Two-inch venetian blinds on all windows.
• Electric fireplace in living room with on/off heat flame display.

• Frigidaire stacking washer/dryer.

• Ceramic tile flooring in bathroom.
• Solid granite vanity tops.
• Vessel sink.
• Ceramic tile tub surround.
• A rubber duckie.
• 32" flat screen LCD television, DVD/CD player home theatre system

• Complete set of food preparation kitchenware and serving pieces.
• Electric coffee maker, tea kettle, mixer, blender, toaster, microwave
• Table setting for four
• Double set of quality bed and bath linens.
• Vacuum cleaner, steam iron and board, tool kit.
• Starter housekeeping supplies: kitchen staples, cleaning products, office supplies, toiletries. Enjoy tonight - Shop tomorrow. Replenish what you use.
• Full (90 channels) Cable TV, high-speed WiFi (bring your laptop), and telephone included available if required (extra charge).

The Neighbourhood

Smack dab in the centre of Downtown Victoria!

Victoria offers fabulous dining, shopping, nightlife and a full complement of cultural events and activities. Year round activities also include golfing, fishing, gardening, horseback riding, cycling, diving, boating, and enjoyment of nature in many parks.

To realize Victoria, you must take all that the eye admires most in Bournemouth, Torquay, the Isle of Wight, the Happy Valley at Hong Kong, the Doon, Sorrento and Camps Bay; add reminisces of the Thousand Islands, and arrange the whole round the Bay of Naples, with some Himalayas in the background. - Rudyard Kipling

There's an all-day breakfast shop across the street. The Demitasse is just down from you (great funky place for pastries and coffee.) Also, you are steps from Antique Row and seconds to the movie theatres, minutes to a really good Japanese restaurant, and a few blocks from the harbour shopping of Muffet and Louisa. The Royal Theatre and MacPherson Theatres are very near. A few more blocks the other direction is Cook Street - another trendy shopping and coffee-shop district.

A few blocks to the Bay Centre shopping paradise, short walk to The Empress (drop in for Tea!). In fact, you are within walking distance of all of Downtown Victoria's charm and hospitality, including the harbour and major attractions like the Royal Museum, carriage rides, downtown shopping, the Castle, car museum, Miniature World, the Bug Zoo, Christmas shops, Antique Row ... you'll want to stay an extra month!

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