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Family Tradition “Learning from the best”
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“It
certainly
encompassed all facets of
the commercial real
estate market,” says
Ron, - who goes on to
say that it was a great
environment to hone
his skills at multitasking. But this rapid
fire pace of wheeling
and dealing would run
its course before Ron
finally joined forces
with his father and the
family business in
Ravensbrook Homes to
R
on Muszynski, owner of
Ravensbrook Homes is part
of his family’s lineage that
has been building homes for the past
50 years. And although Ron paid his
dues early as a kid by pushing a
broom in the family business, he was
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perhaps like a lot of kids, who were
looking to buck family tradition and
steered his path towards the
University of Western Ontario and
secured himself with a Bachelor of
Arts degree.
From here Ron, took a back door to
the home development industry
and delved into the Real Estate
Market. Ron worked in Real
Estate new home sales before
entering the commercial real estate
business of brokering deals for
retail stores where Ron was
re s p o n s i bl e
site
for
selection,
l e a s e
negotiation
a
n
d
construction
that included
some high
p r o f i l e
developers
such
as
Cadillac
F a i r v i e w.
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serve as its contract manager and
helped bolster the reputation of a
company that is responsible for more
than 1000 homes across Southern
Ontario. With communities in Barrie,
Bramalea, Burlington, Georgetown,
Pickering, Kitchener, Oakville and
Mississauga, it was here where they
would garner themselves an
Urban Design Award for
their benchmark community
of the Garden Homes of
Lorne Park.
“Garden Homes was a
unique project because it was
set within one of the oldest
communities
of
Mississauga”, recalls Ron
who was involved in the
planning, designing, sales,
the building and on site
project manager. “With
each home having a very
distinct design, I spent a lot
of time with the clients to
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come up with something unique that
would serve their needs and desires,
says Ron.
The Garden Homes of Lorne Park
found a middle ground that served low
profile condo-residences with seven
design models and twenty-four units
that were intended to provide the
small-scale urban environment true to
its context. These cutting edge designs
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were also serving the nouveau breed
of home-buyer at the time, the
empty nester.
The Garden Homes of Lorne Park is
still considered the flagship
community and a perfect measuring
stick for what Ravensbrook can offer
its clients. “My customers are my
best advertising,” prides Ron, “it’s
rewarding to be able to bring
prospective clients through the
homes we’ve already
built” - this includes
customers that are third
and fourth time homebuyers.
neighbourhoods in Etobicoke, Lorne
Park and Mississauga. Some of
these homes can range anywhere
from four hundred thousand up to a
million
dollars
and
more.
Ravensbrook Homes have now
Aside from their infill
developments,
have
Ravensbrook
recently found their
niche in building homes
in
established
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become extremely adept at large
scale renovations and second story
additions, contract construction and
project management.
Ron has worked with many of the
same trades people for the past 20
years and will only take on a
handful of houses a year so
that he can be on-site and give
the attention needed to each
and every home.
“We’re
to
building
dedicated
relationships founded on trust
and service and to building
homes
of
exceptional
quality”. And with some of
today’s custom built homes,
the clients are looking for
newer technologies and or
cutting edge designs to make
resistant to the most common
forms of damage that affect
wood. It has great character
and street appeal and its
durability is guaranteed for
50 years.
their lives more convenient.
Some of these include audio
visual suites, in-home theatre
facilities, island kitchens that
are integrated
into the
kitchen tables, bathrooms
with multi-head shower heads
that diversify as steam rooms
and then some technologies
that are not so much to cater
to the modern convenience’s
of the home but rather the
practical efficiencies such as
radiant floor heating, and
Ron
R2000 Technology.
speaks highly of the hardie
One of the homes on display
was a stellar example of the
Ravensbrook deft touch - an
eight-foot elliptical door gave
way to a large open
proscenium with cathedral
ceilings. This was overlooked
by the second floor balcony
that was trimmed with an
We are dedicated to building
relationships founded on
trust and service...
plank by maker James Hardie that is
quickly growing as the siding of
choice. Its cement fibre board gives
the appearance of wood but is
intricate wrought iron railing - the
foyer with its large porcelain tile floor
was the focal point where all the other
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rooms branched off; this included the
diningroom with coffered ceilings and
valance lighting that favoured a far
more
intimate
and
formal
environment, a greatroom/family
room sectioned off with detailed
columns gave way to a fireplace
topped off with a widescreen plasma
TV, and then adjacent was a sizeable
French Country kitchen with its
butternut squash cupboards that
perhaps took its inspiration from some
timeless idyllic world of Provencal
France.
Ron Muszynski seems effortless in
his ability to understand what his
clients desire and has made it his
life’s work to continue to do so. “My
dad had spent over 40 years in this
business and I like to think that over
the past twenty years, I’ve learned
only from the best.”
R AV E N S B R O O K
HOMES
Tel. 905.278.8958
Fax 905.278.7922
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