They’ve had this couch, a vintage 1950s find, for more than 10 years. They’re searching for a replacement with “a heavy look” to contrast with the narrow legs on the other furniture.

The pair bought Gillian Iles’s painting No One Will Notice ($3,500) at Katha­rine Mulherin’s gallery on Queen West in 2002. They love the large scale of the piece in the smallish living room.

Moore built the blue acrylic and walnut shelving when he was a student and kept it when it didn’t sell. “I’ve given projects away to family, but this has always felt right for the space.”

The gumwood dining table belonged to Cald­well’s great-grandmother, who lived in Wisconsin. “I was the only person in the family interested in the old stuff,” he says. “It’s a cheap Sears Roebuck, but it has four leaves and can seat 14.”

The couple purchased the Charles Eames fibre­glass bucket chairs at a Winnipeg vintage shop ($125 for the set) in 1998, before they settled in Toronto.

The George Nelson Bubble lamp ($1,100, from Quasi Modo) was their first big purchase for the house. “All the money was going into repairs. We wanted one thing to make the space feel nice,” says Moore.

Moore fashioned the pink metal and wood side table as a prototype for Made’s first exhibition. The table proved to be too expensive for production.

The broad-plank pine floors were scarred and worn beyond refinishing, so Caldwell and Moore painted them. “People thought it was sacrilegious, but the boards smelled musty in summer, and painting them was the only way to go,” Cald­well explains. “We love the dark, formal feel.”

The sidechair, part of a parlour set, is another heirloom from Caldwell’s great-grandmother. They had it reupholstered in fabric by the wallpaper designer Andresa Sisson-Drayton. “Fine antiques aren’t appealing to us,” Caldwell says. “We’d be afraid of having fun with them and certainly wouldn’t cover them in pink swallows.”

Accident, by Jeremy Hatch, was a gift from the artist and is the couple’s latest acquisition; it’s a porcelain figurine of a little boy ashamed of the metallic gold urine running down his leg into a puddle. The ornate ceramic shelf is also part of the sculpture.

In 1999, Caldwell spotted this newel post being ripped from a large Victorian house on Parliament. Aghast, he plucked it from the Dumpster and carried it home, where they found it was too large to incorporate into their staircase. Now it's a decorative bedroom accent.

The photos are from the In Your Bedroom series by Zoë Jaremus, winner of the 2008 Best Student award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

The original kitchen was crooked, caving in and—as Moore (right) and Caldwell (left) soon discovered—had no foundation. Renovations were no cheaper than a rebuild, so they demolished the back of the house, set up a temporary kitchen in the dining room, and added a new kitchen with heated floors and built-in benches.