ADDRESS: 60 Dunvegan Road
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma
AGENT: Maurice Gherson, Forest Hill Real Estate Inc., Brokerage
PRICE: $6,295,000
THE PLACE: A red-brick Georgian mansion grand enough to stand out in a neighbourhood full of Georgian mansions.
BRAGGING RIGHTS: There’s a soda fountain and an ice cream bar in the games room, meaning you basically have your own Pop Tate’s Chok’lit Shoppe.
BIG SELLING POINT: The interior design covers just about every aesthetic era, so when you want to feel like a medieval English lord, you can retire to the wood-panelled study; when you want to feel like Delta Burke circa Designing Women, there’s the spectacularly ’80s front hall; and when you’re planning a Boogy Nights–style party, the glam, mirror-filled, ’70s basement room will surely do the trick.
POSSIBLE DEAL BREAKER: That said, having a faux leopard-print rug on the stairs might not be cruel to animals, but it’s cruel to anyone with a sense of style.
BY THE NUMBERS:
• $6,295,000
• $31,046.86 (2011 taxes)
• 8 bedrooms
• 8 bathrooms
• 4 fireplaces
• 3 storeys
• 2-car garage
• 11-foot ceilings
• 1 in-ground pool
• 1 soda fountain
• 1 circular driveway
• 1 wine cellar
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- The brick exterior. Expect plenty of baseballs to get stuck up there
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- The entrancing entrance
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- Using common elements, the home blends multiple styles.
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- The opulent living room
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- Nothing in here looks cheap.
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- The dining room
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- The kitchen, with a Sub-Zero fridge, Thermador cooktop and Aeg oven
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- Wood panels make the twin dishwashers blend in
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- The breakfast nook, probably the only homey thing in the entire mansion
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- Plenty of storage space
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- The breakfast nook
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- The family room, linked with the solarium
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- Overlooking the pool
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- The spacious solarium
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- Very spacious
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- The master bathroom, with a g-g-ghost in the background
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- The study, encased in fine wood
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- Like a scene from a movie, where the upstart proletariat burst in
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- Every cranny needs its own chandelier
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- The second-floor staircase
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- Warm feet are always a selling point
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- The same bedroom
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- A luxurious bathroom, with some kind of giant ladybug in the lower right corner
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- The same bathroom
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- Feel like Helios every time you wash your hands.
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- Another bathroom
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- A bidet for the hygenic/courageous
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- Another bathroom too beautiful to use
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- A bedroom for your little girl (or not, we don’t judge)
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- Another bedroom
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- Another bedroom. Who plays chess on the floor? Savages, that’s who
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- Another bedroom
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- A simple home office off a bedroom
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- Lots of living space
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- Which to sleep on…
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- For fancy tea parties
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- The very shiny basement
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- Like an M.C. Escher painting
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- Trampoline onto the couch, if you like
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- A solid home gym
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- The billiards room, ripped from a ’50s diner
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- A specified rocking-out space
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- Look at this image, then earlier in the gallery. Same house
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- A uniquely placed sink
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- The rear view, as pretty as the front
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- Another angle on the pool
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- More pool
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- The semi-circular driveway
Wow looks like they forgot certain parts of the house…need another millon to bring the house to have some flow…. One of the best streets in forest hill but seriously,
November 24, 2011 at 8:40 am | by RJGreat house and pool. The decor is a horror show, but if you have 6.3M in the first place for this locale, what another 1M to bring into this century… It comes with its own crowbar.
November 24, 2011 at 8:46 am | by MikeI would love to see the floor plan for this house, it does not seem to have proper flow, with the communal rooms lacking proper function. Some of the bathrooms have really dated/cheap fixtures and finishes. $6.3 million is alot for a house that needs upgrades.
November 24, 2011 at 10:39 am | by KateUm, I’d definitely keep the basement as is. How could you not?
November 24, 2011 at 11:01 am | by MilesThe Fresh Prince called – they want their set back. Seriously, $6.3 mil for a house that looks like it was vomited up from the 90′s? What a joke.
November 24, 2011 at 11:03 am | by JimObviously money doesn’t get you taste. This place is a design disaster.
November 24, 2011 at 11:29 am | by lolaYou only showed this one to make us laugh right? Who would think as you pass these show homes from the outside that on the inside, they are such a hideous mess. Absolutely tasteless decor.
November 24, 2011 at 12:08 pm | by Mel S.Wow. Proof that money does not buy good taste.
November 24, 2011 at 2:21 pm | by Laurie MorissetteFantastic street and neighbourhood BUT “COME ON MAN” the furniture is terrible and the fixtures look like Canadian Tire $10 fixtures!!
November 24, 2011 at 4:26 pm | by Johnathan VrozosThe oak like breakfast table and 4 chairs look like they came from a basement kitchen from St Clair and Caledonia.
$6.3 m is insane!!!
The pool and backyard is awesome but needs furniture NOT from IKEA and DOT!!
Johnathan Vrozos
love the pOOl
November 24, 2011 at 5:58 pm | by meOne word: stager.
November 24, 2011 at 7:48 pm | by SReedStaging may get rid of the ugly furniture, dried floral arrangements and blue and poster art but only C4 will get rid of the cabinetry, tiles, bathroom fixtures and that basement. Yikes!
November 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm | by ShelI think you are only paying for the area, nothing else. Heavens!!
November 25, 2011 at 6:43 am | by Peter212“make them an offer they cannot refuse” and then do the art community a favor and burn all the furniture.
November 25, 2011 at 7:24 am | by Cosmo Mannellawhat were they thinking!!!
cosmo mannella
It is a big typical mansion on a huge lot in Forest Hill. Everything is expensive there. Styles, furniture, decor do not matter. Sometimes even houses do not matter. You are paying for the location and the lot. Rosedale with its “Heritage” (really?) status is more overpriced for what you are paying for. In general, the real estate prices are really skyrocketing in places like Toronto, Vancouver, etc. I guess that is the new reality. Just compare it to London, Paris, New York, our houses are still cheap.
November 28, 2011 at 12:46 pm | by casualreader