We knew Vancouver housing prices were insane. But this is just ridiculous!
An optimistic Craigslist user has listed a gingerbread home on the city’s west side for $4.5 million on the classifieds site.
It’s a one-bedroom home that’s a single sq. ft. in size. The baking sheet upon which it stands is not included in the sale, and the “investors’ dream” will be demolished on Jan. 1.
The seller demands “serious buyers only.”
The posting is a strong, but funny comment on the housing affordability in Vancouver, where the benchmark price for a detached home in the region stands at $1.2 million, up 22.6 per cent from a year ago.
The gingerbread house is reminiscent of a project that raised awareness of just how tough it is to buy a home in the city.
Earlier this year, Vancouver artist Ken Lum’s “Vancouver Special” saw him build a small home sculpture in the Downtown Eastside, representing how much you could have for $45,000 in today’s economy, The Vancouver Sun reported.
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Location: The New York Botanical Garden’s 2009 Gingerbread Adventures (Bronx, NY)
The mother-daughter duo behind Ardsley, New York’s Riviera Bake House took inspiration from daughter Liv Hansen’s favorite childhood fairytale to create their 2-foot tall structure. No candy was used to decorate; Liv instead completed detail work using a pipeable, watered-down recipe for gingerbread. She sculpted all of the mice and the Pied Piper from marzipan, and constructed the roof from cereal. The team dedicated five days to the project, using approximately 10 pounds of gingerbread and 2-3 gallons of icing.
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Photo courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden.
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Location: The Sheraton Princess Ka’iulani Hotel, 2010 (Honolulu, HI)
Hotel executive chef Ralf Bauer and a team of culinary architects spent over 660 hours designing and constructing a gingerbread village that paid homage to both Bauer’s native Germany and to old Hawaii. Medieval churches, bell towers, train stations, a carousel and skating rink mingled with iconic Hawaiian structures like the Kawaiha’o mission church and the magnificent Iolani Palace. The winter wonderland stood over 14 1/2 feet high and 24 feet wide and was made with 200 gallons of icing, 100 pounds of dark chocolate, 30 pounds of white chocolate and 60 sheets of gingerbread.
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Photo courtesy of Starwood Hotels Resorts Waikiki.
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Location: The Grove Park Inn Spa’s 2009 Gingerbread Competition (Asheville, NC)
Carolina Montoya and husband Fernado Puga spent 302 hours over the course of two months to create their gingerbread house. The traditionally-designed structure featured President Barack Obama, who appeared to be climbing out the window and up onto the chimney with a bag full of toys. Montoya and Puga’s all-edible entry was constructed of gingerbread, fondant, gum paste, coconut, Rice Krispies cereal and breath strips for window panes.
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Photo courtesy PeakDefinition.com.
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Location: The Seattle Sheraton’s 2009 Gingerbread Village (Seattle, WA)
Prompted by the theme “Reel Christmas,” a team of Seattle Sheraton culinary staff and area architecture firm DLR Group created this cheeky homage to the 1983 Christmas comedy film classic A Christmas Story. Weighing around 200 pounds, the gingerbread structure featured edible reenactments of memorable movie scenesincluding fondant versions of Ralphie and friend Flick by the flagpole in an amazingly detailed gingerbread neighborhood, and a recreation of the film’s iconic leg lamp sporting licorice “fringe.”
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Photo courtesy of Sheraton Seattle.
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Location: The New York Botanical Garden’s 2009 Gingerbread Adventures (Bronx, NY)
Irina Brandler, a Russian immigrant and owner of Sugar and Spice Bake Shop in Bronx, NY, headed a team of four bakers to make a gingerbread house for Baba Yaga, a witch-like character from Russian folklore who lives in the forest in a hut that stands on chicken legs. Irina’s version of the house stood more than two feet tall and featured a roof covered in shredded wheat cereal and Necco Wafers®, pretzel fences and ladder, a trail formed with Boston Baked Beans candy, and Christmas trees made of frosted ice cream cones and pretzel rods. Three domes on the top of the house were all shaped out of fondantone dome made of a Hershey’s chocolate kiss melted and had to be replaced.
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Photo courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden.
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Location: The Grove Park Inn Spa’s 2009 Gingerbread Competition (Asheville, NC)
Ten-year-old Lydia Gentry of Hendersonville, North Carolina, made creative use of edible materials to construct her prize-winning gingerbread house. Lydia thatched her cottage’s roof with shredded wheat cereal, used chocolate rocks on the foundation and chimney, and poured hard candy to create the cottage windows. Outside, frosting-covered pasta formed porch supports while a chocolate candy and tapioca pearl walkway wound its way beneath a vine-covered trellis (gum paste, pasta and frosting), past rose bushes made of crushed cereal and marshmallow, and through a lawn made of frosting and speckled with coconut “snow.”
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Photo courtesy PeakDefinition.com.
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Location: The New York Botanical Garden’s 2009 Gingerbread Adventures (Bronx, NY)
For her fairy-tale-themed confection, Cake Power’s Kate Sullivan constructed an 18-inch-tall gingerbread house featuring three little pigs and a wolf all made of fondant (the original versions, made of modeling chocolate, melted in the Botanical Garden’s greenhouse). The house itself, constructed of embossed gingerbread, featured such incredible tiny details as a jellybean-covered fireplace, string licorice rag rug, gumball lamp and vase, windows made of poured blue-tinted hard sugar, and a whimsical hanging portrait of a Star Wars clone trooper drawn in food marker.
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Photo courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden
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