78 | BC B U S I N E SS NOVEM B ER/ D ECEM B ER 2025 Tony Colangelo
W O R K / L I F E | CARRY ON
Inside a $20M
maximalist makeover.
Developer Lenny Moy travelled the world and spent
millions transforming Rosemead House, with the result
being a royalty-worthy hotel featuring Buckingham
Palace gates from The Crown and Savoy Hotel china—
plus 2,500 antiques to match.—By Rob Shaw
Wh e n Va n c o u ve r developer Lenny Moy
purchased a rundown Tudor-style inn near Victoria, he
thought he'd stumbled upon a charming fixer-upper:
a neglected 1906 Samuel Maclure mansion with good
bones and a bit of history.
He figured a tidy $1 million would fix it up. That was
10 years and $20 million ago.
Today, the result is something else entirely—part
luxury boutique hotel, part fever dream of the British
aristocracy and part personal museum of an antiquing
hobby that turned into an obsession.
There are more than 2,500 antiques at Rosemead
House in Esquimalt, all sourced from the U.K., includ-
ing a reproduction of the gates at Buckingham Palace
FIT FOR A QUEEN
In "The Crown
Library," the
drapery, Versailles
pedestals and
floral chairs all
hail from the set
of The Crown.
