Florida is coming to Kemptville, courtesy of eQ Homes.
The builder has just opened its 20,000-square-foot clubhouse and resident club at eQuinelle, its adult-lifestyle development surrounding the championship eQuinelle Golf Club.
Offering a combined clubhouse for golfers and private space for residents, the Barry Hobin-designed facility brings condo-like amenities to low-rise living.
“This is a similar concept you see all the time in Florida,” says eQ president Denis Laporte, adding the clubhouse is giving residents “the opportunity to live a resort-style lifestyle.”
The facility overlooks the 1st tee, 18th green and the first hole pond.
More than half of the building is private space that includes a library, pool, exercise rooms, kitchen, games rooms and outdoor terrace overlooking the course, strictly for residents, who pay about $1,000 a year to be members. So far, almost 200 of the roughly 300 households built have joined. The community will eventually hold 950 homes.
“The challenge was to accommodate both (public and private) groups without distinction,” says Hobin, a keen golfer himself. He used a dramatic lobby done in stone with a wood ceiling to discretely separate the public from the private. The materials, which are repeated on the exterior, were chosen to convey permanence and quality.
“We’re very happy with what he’s done,” says Laporte. “We’re certainly the only community in this region that offers a facility like this for its residents.”
The public bar and grill is roomy enough for more than 40.
