Sarah's Mountain Escape
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| Sarah's Mountain Escape | |
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| Created by | Sarah Richardson |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60-minute timeslot |
| Release | |
| Original network | HGTV Canada |
| Original release | 19 October – 21 December 2022 |
| External links | |
| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
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Coordinates: 50°07′30″N 122°57′34″W / 50.124904°N 122.959456°W
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Sarah's Mountain Escape is a renovation television show for HGTV Canada starring Sarah Richardson and her husband Alexander Younger, produced by Corus Entertainment and Insight Productions. They set out to renovate a rundown Bavarian-inspired bed-and-breakfast in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada; and turn it into a luxury vacation rental property. It went to air in the 2022-2023 TV season as 10 episode series in an hour-long timeslot.[1][2] It premiered on 19 October 2022 at 9:00pm on HGTV Canada.[3]
Premise[edit]
Sarah Richardson buys a run-down bed-&-breakfast ski resort inn, and renovates it into a high-class vacation rental. She redesigns the inn with her design team at her interior design company, Sarah Richardson Design. Sarah commutes between her home and office in Toronto, and the inn in Whistler.
Cast[edit]
- Sarah Richardson, designer/co-owner
- Alex Younger, co-owner
- Ashley de Boer, site supervising designer
- Nathan, co-head general contractor
- Nathaniel, co-head general contractor
- Jarrath, contractor
- Ryan, contractor
- Chungmo, structural engineer
- Hugo, landscaper
- Chris, signmaker
- Dani, real estate agent
- Fran Friesen, exterior Bavarian artwork artist
- Kris Gibson, legacy carpenter from Sarah's other reno shows becomes supervising contractor
- Shannon, Sarah Richardson Design staffer project manager
- Natalie, Sarah Richardson Design staffer lead designer
- Karen, Sarah Richardson Design staffer project assistant
- Ashley, Sarah Richardson Design staffer design assistant
Series overview[edit]
| Number of seasons | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 10 | 10 October 2022 | 21 December 2022 | ||
Episodes[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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| 01 | 1 | "What Have We Bought?" | October 19, 2022 | |
| Haus Heidi is the most expensive purchase of Sarah and Alex so far. The realtor gave the couple 20 minutes to inspect the 9 bedroom mansion. The local bylaws have strict renovation rules, making closing on the property an extended affair, taking months. It is located in Whistler, B.C., Canada, on the other side of the continent from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where they live and work. Sarah Richardson, Alex Young, and their 2 daughters Robin Lily Younger and Fiona Younger, all of whom have appeared on prior Sarah TV shows, return to Haus Heidi after making an offer in ski season, returning months later in summer. There's a laundry alcove, sauna, half-bath, 2 ensuite suites, mudroom on the 1st floor; dining room, bar, shower bathroom, kitchen, living room with fireplace, pantry on the 2nd floor; 6 small bedrooms and 4 small bathrooms occupy the 3rd floor; a hottub on the deck; a manager's suite off the 1st floor, a driveway parking lot. The family stay in the inn and try living in it as is. They empty out the inn and given it to the community, and consult with local realtor Dani and local structural engineer Chungmo and local Squamish designer Ashley about designing the house renovation. They hire Whistler contractors the Nathans, Nathaniel Furst and Nathan White, both from Australia, and their firm CVC. Demolition begins, including taking out the fireplaces, and Sarah tries to open concept the building, but earthquake updates is a must due to B.C. construction codes. Toronto-Dominion Bank discusses equity real estate loans. Lowe's is involved with the appliances and fittings and cabinetry. The first floor will have a spa bathroom with 2 full showers, full laundry room, bunkroom, mudroom, boot and coat closet with boot-dryer. The old 48-inch wide stairs no longer meet code requirements with the reno, needing a redesign, that leads to narrower stairs to fit headroom demands, and leading to an odd new landing. | ||||
| 02 | 2 | "Beam Me Up, Sarah" | October 26, 2022 | |
| There will only be 5 bedrooms in the new reno. The back bedroom of the first floor becomes a media room with daybeds; the other first floor bedroom becomes the Boulder Suite, with a half-bath instead of ensuite. The Boulder Suite will have a pair of bunkbeds. A kitchenette-bar alcove is added to the first floor. A 10-foot retractable screen is added to the media room. The entire house will have extra sound insulation. Bunkbeds cannot be built in due to building codes, as they would then count as a loft, thus must be somehow removable. The building is already maxed out on squarefootage under code, so a loft will not it. Local indigenous Salish made art will be added to the hotel. Solar is added to reduce utility costs. Fire inspector has made thinning the trees easier as it was restricted by other property use codes, by using the Fire Smart program of the fire marshals. | ||||
| 03 | 3 | "More Cowbell" | November 2, 2022 | |
| The room at the top of the stairs on the third floor becomes the Heidi Room, and the bathroom at the top of the stairs becomes the Heidi Loo, the pair making a Heidi Suite, which is not contained but separated by the public hallway. The Heidi Room was to have a cross-perpendicular bunkbed, but the door was place in the wrong location. An office is added to the third floor. The former attic space becomes part of the vaulted ceilings for the third floor rooms. Skylights for the third floor rooms are added. A window wall to the pitched roofline is added at the end of the corridor. Windows and doors cost $200,000. After saving the roof sheeting from mould, the hotel will be reroofed to better support the solar system, to reroof at $34,000, for shingles and metal roofing, nearly at the turn of winter. TD home equity is discussed again for funding. Cyanotype prints are added to the Hiedi Loo. Some of the chip carved paneling and cowbell of the old Haus Heidi is saved for the Heidi Room. | ||||
| 04 | 4 | "Not What I Was Expecting" | November 9, 2022 | |
| Zoning requirements of a maximum of 301.7 sq ft (28.03 m2) per suite, mean shrinking the Glacier Suite by adding a corridor/lounge, and the moved walls restricted where the door from the room to the en-suite is located. The Abbotsford and Lower Mainland flood (November 2021 Pacific Northwest floods) occurs, impacting deliveries, washing out the Trans-Canada Highway, necessitating diverting deliveries across the U.S. Northwest from Eastern Canada to reach Whistler. The Sea-to-Sky Highway is reduced to one-lane each way by landslides, reducing shipments into Whistler. It is too late in the season to do landscaping; and there is no time to complete the project before ski season, so the resort will not open on time. The driveway and parking lot is expanded to accommodate more parking spaces for the dozen possible clients. | ||||
| 05 | 5 | "Shrink Wrap Reno" | November 16, 2022 | |
| Sarah will try to finish in time for the Spring Season. The second floor reno gets under way. The floor has been gutted, removing the old kitchen, dining room, living room, main hall, office. They move the kitchen from the turret to the old dining room at the back of the house, using modular cabinets instead of custom. A mud room is added to the floor, a kitchenette is placed in the bay next to the kitchen. Stone countertops and backsplash are cut in Toronto and shipped thousands of miles across the country by truck to the house. Custom decorative cement pottery is made for display in the kitchen. | ||||
| 06 | 6 | "Forest Vibe View" | November 23, 2022 | |
| Sarah continues to work at her design studio in Toronto, 'Sarah Richardson Design', to earn money to pay for the renovations. She also works with Toronto designers to help her with the design of the inn. The inn now contains a 1st floor mud room, media room, spa bathroom, "Boulder Suite" bunkee room, 2nd floor kitchen, 3rd floor "Glacier Suite", "Heidi Suite" , "Nimbus Suite", "Woodland Suite", officespace. The 'Heidi' suite is a room with a separate unattached bathroom, 'Heidi Loo' accessible by the common 3rd floor hallway, that is not a shared bath despite its unattached location. There are to be a total of 8 "suites" in this luxury rental property. The masonry chimney is taken out to make room for the Forest View suits 'Nimbus' and 'Woodland'. Renovations proceed with the Forest View suites. Each suite will have individual split-system wall-mount heat-pump units to control heating and cooling. Nathan falls ill to COVID-19 while on vacation in Mexico, retarding his return to Canada and thus work by 2 weeks. | ||||
| 07 | 7 | "Eat Drink Lounge" | November 30, 2022 | |
| The second floor once had a turret kitchen, pantry, dining room and dining hall. That got converted into a "superspace" that was open-concept with kitchen, living room, dining hall, bar, turret lounge, modern fireplace, and proper accessways to the decks with a mass of glass doors spanning most of the floors wall, the floor suitable for 16 people at once comfortably. | ||||
| 08 | 8 | "Denied, Denied. Denied!" | December 7, 2022 | |
| Landscaping continues. A new large deck is added to replace the smaller Bavarian-style balcony. The masonry chimney is removed, needing a design change to the back deck pillars to improve sightliness. The firepits are installed. The hottub is installed. A feature window was misdesigned, so it will be adjusted by partially hiding it into the wall to match roofline angle. The sauna is installed in the sauna shack with the misdesigned window. The sauna needed redesign as it did not get a permit for its initial design. | ||||
| 09 | 9 | "The Suite Life" | December 14, 2022 | |
| Budget overruns of $15,000, $50,000, $100,000, etc., are discussed. As of this time, Alex and Sarah have been together for 22 years. The caretaker suite, located in the former garage on the first floor, is renovated. It is for the manager or separate rental, as needed. Chris has been staying in the suite while the rest of the building is renovated over 7 months to supervise the build. Before the reno suite contains the mechanical room for the building, its own bathroom, laundry, kitchen, studio. Renoing moves the mechanical room into the building proper on the first floor. The new Meadow Suite converts the old spaces to a bedroom, bathroom with laundry, galley kitchen, living room. | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "Open for Business" | December 21, 2022 | |
| The original plan was to reno Haus Heidi into a nightly luxury rental. It was by far the most expensive property that Sarah bought and renovated. Locals think that the kitschy campy Bavarian style needs changing and updating, though Haus Heidi has been Bavarian style since 1978. The exterior is refreshed with a new paintjob, and the balusters and railings are replaced. A new sign with new logo is made, it will still be Haus Heidi. Now that spring is back again, landscaping is started again. Fran Friesen, the original artist for the artwork added in 1988 on Haus Heidi, returns to touch-up, refresh, restore, and update the exterior artwork. Kris has spent 14 months on the project, after coming in partway through. The new website will be on Vrbo. After finishing in summer 2022, an Open House is hosted for the Whistler community. Haus Heidi opens for business in summer 2022. | ||||
Resort[edit]
| Haus Heidi | |
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| Alternative names | Sarah's Mountain Escape |
| General information | |
| Type | Mansion |
| Architectural style | Bavarian-style inn |
| Classification | Pension house |
| Location | British Columbia |
| Address | 7115 Nesters Road |
| Town or city | Whistler |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | 50°07′30″N 122°57′34″W / 50.124904°N 122.959456°W ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽ |
| Named for | Heidi |
| Renovated | 2021 |
| Owner | Sarah Richardson & Alexander Younger |
| Renovating team | |
| Other designers |
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| Main contractor | CVC Custom Builders |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 2 |
| Number of suites | 5 |
| Facilities |
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| Website | |
| haus-heidi | |
Haus Heidi (German: House Heidi) is an inn in Whistler, B.C., Canada; and a quirky local landmark. Sarah and Alex have bought the chalet. The B&B building was a Bavarian-style chalet inn when the Richardsons bought it.
History[edit]
Haus Heidi is located at 7115 Nesters Road, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, V0N 1B7. It is located on a knoll with a 1 acre (0.40 hectares) estate, overlooking Whistler-Blackcomb.[4][5] The house was built in 1978, before Whistler town centre was built.[3][4][5] The third level was added in 1985. The turret was later added in 1986.
Haus Heidi Alpine Country Inn was operated by one family for 30 years before being put on sale.
Haus Heidi was originally put on sale in 2018 for $5,000,000. It was located in the Pension zone, allowing the entire chalet to be rented as a unit, or operated as a bed-and-breakfast.
Richardson and Younger bought the property on a whim, and at a financial challenge, at $3.7 million in December 2020. They had been looking for a property in the Whistler-Blackcomb area after their local ski hill closed, and them having two ski-racing daughters.[3] For the renovations in 2021, the couple hired local area CVC Custom Builders and Squamish designer Ashley de Boer as the local assistant.[3][6][7] They spent a-year-and-a-half renovating the building.
Specifications[edit]
Before being renovated on the TV show, the 5,000 square feet (460 m2) Bavarian-style chalet had 8 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms, with a large central fireplace on the a main floor, two room floors, a crawlspace and and upper level. located on a 1 acre (0.40 hectares) estate. It could sleep 18, and had an additional studio unit for staffing.[4][5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Andrew Tracy (3 June 2022). "Corus slates six new series, three docs across lifestyle and factual nets for 2022-23". RealScreen.
- ↑ Jordan Pinto (10 August 2021). "New Insight Productions series greenlit by Corus Studios". PlaybackOnline.ca.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Alyssa Noel (6 October 2022). "Whistler B&B transformed into luxury rental on HGTV show". Pique News Magazine.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Wendy Jacob (19 October 2022). "A Sneak Peek At Sarah Richardson's Mountain Escape". House and Home.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Steve Burgess (1 November 2019). "Big Fat Deal: $4 million for Haus Heidi in Whistler". BCBusiness.
- ↑ Shawn Conner (13 October 2022). "Squamish designer gets a break with HGTV's Sarah's Mountain Escape". Vancouver Sun.
- ↑ Jennifer Thuncher (24 October 2022). "Q&A with Squamish interior designer Ashley de Boer". Squamish Chief.
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