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8 BE HOME TOUR.24
NORTH STAR
SPONSORS INFILL NORTH BJB WOODSHOP
MONARCH FLOORS INC.
Before most people enter Matt Kaprowy’s Ritchie neighbourhood home, they have to pass the sniff test. Kaprowy brings Steven and Wesley, both very good dogs, out to greet visitors on the home’s large front steps, where the pair suss people out before welcoming them inside.
Steven and Wesley won’t be there when you take this year’s BE Home Tour, but Kaprowy most likely will be, because his extremely custom home doubles as his company’s head office, and he loves sharing it with people.
Growing up in Winnipeg, he was first interested in mechanics, and worked on a 1971 Chevy Nova with his dad. But things changed after he realized just how “abusive metal is to your hands,” and when his family suffered a traumatic event.
"I got into home building because my mom's home was burned down in a serial-arson attack,” he says. “During summer break of university, before I started my summer job, the builder brought me on and I got to work on my mom's house.”
PHOTOS: PAUL SWANSON
