Machines For Living In - Real Estate in Kingston, Ontario

Machines For Living In - Real Estate in Kingston, Ontario Writing and real estate from Mark Sinnett. We sell real estate in and around Kingston, Ontario. We care about what we do and we also enjoy it very much.

So east to Napanee and west to about Gananoque and north from all those points to about Westport. We feel a great responsibility to do things properly and well, and the reviews have been kind. We also have opinions on our community and write those down sometimes. And occasionally we swear, so be warned. Anyway, we'd love to help, if you're in the market. Cheers,

Cheri and Mark

NEW LISTING: WOLFE ISLAND PASSIVE HOUSEImagine a home warmed (and I’m not making this up) by your loved one’s presence a...
06/19/2026

NEW LISTING: WOLFE ISLAND PASSIVE HOUSE

Imagine a home warmed (and I’m not making this up) by your loved one’s presence across the table at breakfast. Their smile raising the temperature. A hand fluttering up to the side of your face like a bird. The LP spinning on the turntable. Your kids playing on the rug with their toys. The friction and their breath. By the sun coming through the window. The Wolfe Island Passive House is that property.

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/1307-going-st

NEW LISTING: 51 QUEBEC ST. A pale bungalow perched in the trees. More dove than hawk. Two bedrooms, cork and lemon floor...
06/12/2026

NEW LISTING: 51 QUEBEC ST. A pale bungalow perched in the trees. More dove than hawk. Two bedrooms, cork and lemon floors, parking and a maze-daubed garden. All on one of the Inner Harbour’s prettiest blocks.

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/51-quebec-st

OPEN HOUSE @ 198 RAGLAN RD, 2-4 PMI've been doing this work for twenty years now, and that's never felt less than surpri...
06/07/2026

OPEN HOUSE @ 198 RAGLAN RD, 2-4 PM

I've been doing this work for twenty years now, and that's never felt less than surprising, and a little weird. But then so few of us wind up where we expect to wind up.

Running open houses is particularly odd for me. My face pushed right up against the glass. Reality hitting home.

You can witness me experiencing that slightly dislocating sensation at 198 Raglan Rd this afternoon. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?

The house, by the way, is small and lovely. A poem written with bricks and mortar.

After a little too much Prosecco, and stumbling homewards in dawn’s solar dazzle, it’s distinctly possible that upon pas...
06/05/2026

After a little too much Prosecco, and stumbling homewards in dawn’s solar dazzle, it’s distinctly possible that upon passing 198 Raglan Road you’d remark to yourself that this utterly delightful and diminutive detached home reminds you of a Toblerone segment...

OPEN HOUSE ON SUNDAY 2-4 PM

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/198-raglan-road

NEW LISTING 244 SYDENHAM The rental picture is changing in the downtown core and around the university campus. Hundreds ...
05/26/2026

NEW LISTING 244 SYDENHAM The rental picture is changing in the downtown core and around the university campus. Hundreds of student-aimed condominiums have been built along Princess St, great shadow makers, a looming sort of honour guard for the cars and buses. But there will always be a strong market, I’m convinced, for a classic red-brick four bedroom home two-blocks from the main drag, and a barely-awake fifteen-minute amble from Stauffer. You add a self-contained bachelor suite to the back of that metal-roofed late Victorian classic, and the lure becomes just about irresistible. The front unit is already vacant and the rear will be the same way at the end of August. There is also opportunity here to convert back to a single-family home, and with the quite brilliant Central Public School directly across the street, that feels an eminently reasonable future. In that scenario you use the bachelor suite to help with the mortgage, or you absorb it into the main house and gain a bathroom and a family room. There is lots of period character to go along with all the modern conveniences, and McBurney Park is right around the corner.
https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/244-sydenham-st

NEW LISTING. The lot at 126 Charles St is 166 feet deep, but it feels so much more than that, as if the weather may chan...
05/19/2026

NEW LISTING. The lot at 126 Charles St is 166 feet deep, but it feels so much more than that, as if the weather may change by the time you reach the back fence, somewhere way beyond the found-art sculptures and the abundant, swooning tulip beds. The garden is brilliant and absurd, in other words: an olympic sprint, a vegetable allotment, a walk in the woods. The Inner Harbour two-storey house is no slouch either…

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/126-charles-st

NEW LISTING: 135 JAMES STI used to own the place opposite 135 James St, in downtown’s Inner Harbour neighbourhood. This ...
05/14/2026

NEW LISTING: 135 JAMES ST

I used to own the place opposite 135 James St, in downtown’s Inner Harbour neighbourhood. This is going way back. I was tending bar, and in my spare time writing poems and a slew of derivative stories. Raymond Carver I was not. I never left home without wondering at the history of 135. It sits further back from the road than any of its neighbours, with a back-to-the-wall personality I identify with. Its symmetry intimidated me slightly, and I can’t properly explain that...

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/135-james-st

NEW LISTING. I could spend several contented lifetimes moving Danish teak furniture around the Jetson-esque geometries a...
05/06/2026

NEW LISTING. I could spend several contented lifetimes moving Danish teak furniture around the Jetson-esque geometries at the stylish sidesplit that is parked roadside at 69 Campbell Crescent in Kingston’s Polson Park neighbourhood. A form of mid-century Tetris, if you will. Or a test of mental function for an unhinged president. Take your pick.

Here's the link to the full story:
https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/69-campbell-crescent

I'll do an open house on Sunday and any offers will be reviewed on Monday May 11.

I have been excited about the possibility of listing the marvellous limestone home at 25 Wellington St since late fall. ...
03/19/2026

I have been excited about the possibility of listing the marvellous limestone home at 25 Wellington St since late fall. Without wanting to tempt fate I mentioned it (in hushed reverential tones) to a few colleagues and friends. I wandered past. This is before the first snowfalls. I re-read its history (the same family has owned it, tended to its needs, lavished attention on it, since 1963), and I pictured myself on its grand staircase, or on the narrow stairs down to the basement (where the kitchen used to be). And when the contract was mine, I began to strategize, and to pull the threads together, to fill the rooms with flowers. It is an exciting listing for me, and perhaps a dreamy once-in-a-lifetime possibility for you.
Here is the link:

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/25-wellington-st

NEW LISTING:Stupid, this one. You take the ferry to the island, hang a quick right to 1172 Main, then strip off your wor...
03/13/2026

NEW LISTING:

Stupid, this one. You take the ferry to the island, hang a quick right to 1172 Main, then strip off your work gear and run the hot and cold while you find your page. What could be simpler? And could anything be prettier?

The rest is here:

https://www.machinesforlivingin.com/1172-main-st-wolfe-island

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914 Princess Street
Kingston, ON
K7L1H1

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