This is a 3+2 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 5,000 square foot house on a 144 x 321.75 (or 1.99 acres) in Hornby in the Halton Hills.

It's not a typical house that I post but the listing really caught my attention...

Beautiful, Bright, Custom Ranch-Style Country Home - Around The Corner From New Outlet Mall.

Really!?!  

An outlet mall is a big draw?  How much shopping are these people doing!?!

And it is only a 'hop away from the 401'!

Hmm, is that a good thing!?!

Then I looked at the house, and the dining room reminded me of Little Miss Sunshine...

And the kitchen reminded me of John and Kate's first kitchen (but I NEVER watched that show).

But mostly...

It reminded me of a house in Niagara-on-the-Lake that a reader sent in (thanks L!).

It's was a similar house (sort of) but the owners, Tamara Woolgar, owner of Prairie Ink PR, and Dave Suydam, president of Architech, a software company, bought the place, along with the vineyard, after moving away from Toronto and did a complete overhaul (apparently for under $500,000).

Here is what it looked like before...

And this is what it looks like now...

(Click here to see more photos.)

So, do you think it is worth it to do the same thing here?

Probably not.  

I am pretty sure that farm land doesn't come with the house like the vineyard that came with the Niagara-on-the-Lake house.

And the neighbours are kind of close.

But for $799,900, you do get a house with 3 family rooms and a huge backyard!

Oh!  And this...

And this...

And this microwave...

That is a microwave, right?

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