If you ever though you would like to live in a mansion well you can now purchase the Iconic Casa Mia in Southwest Marine Drive overlooking the Fraser River, in Vancouver. It is listed for a sweet $10.5 Million, has 20, 782 square feet, was built in 1932 for George Reifel. He made his fame in the liquor industry as a rum runner during Prohibition.
John Mackie toured this mansion in 2007, and documented these details: "The house has an entrance hall with a dramatic vaulted ceiling that curves from one end of the house to the other end, and in the middle is a grand staircase, that swoops around a two-storey high rotunda. At the top is a “coffered Elizabethan ceiling”, which include small portraits of people. The rotunda is lit by an amazing five-foot-tall chandelier that blends the art deco and arts and crafts styles. Casa Mia has its own ballroom in the basement, complete with a sprung dance floor, men's and women's washrooms and a stage. The Casa Mia ballroom was done in the art deco style, and is virtually unchanged. The walls are golden, and there are subtle deco bas relief sculptures on the walls. The bathrooms are simply dazzling - the walls in the men's washroom are painted black, and are decorated with a golden Indian chief shooting a golden arrow at a golden stag. Many of the rooms have wood paneled walls, are a very large. There are several fireplaces in the home, including one that is intricately carved and bears the name MacLean, after a doctor who owned the house in the late 1960's. The real showpiece is up in the third floor tower. Originally a storage space, when Jane Reifel was born in 1938 her dad brought some artists up from Walt Disney's studios in California to remake it into "Dopey's Room," a playroom featuring murals of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
This is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to grab a show piece home, if for whatever reason this is out of your price range, I'm sure I can find you a dream home right here in the North Okanagan in the B.C. Interior of Canada.
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