Fun & Function

Fun & Function Renovations owner, Pete Palffy, is perhaps one of the most eclectic person you’ll ever meet. An immigrant from Eastern Europe, he arrived in Canada in 1988 as a car mechanic with $200 and little knowledge of the English language. Since then, he worked and lived in Toronto, Vancouver, California and the Caribbean and settled in Calgary in 2002. An accomplished photographer, a cigar aficionado, an audiophile and has a passion for cars and motorcycles. He also has a weak spot for collectable and vintage wrist watches. He is a licensed technician with factory training from Mercedes-Benz and BMW and he holds a bachelor’s degree. His carrier includes a large variety of jobs in a variety of fields, he has been working with cars, with polymer technology research, fuel cell research, marine and watercraft hull design and construction, just to mention a few. In 1999 while living in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, he got involved with a small group of Canadian developers and started working on homes. His interest in home building soon turned into a passion and he never looked back since.