Great Spaces: Mod Men
The 1960s Ardwold Gate home of the city’s top event planner
Published: March 2010
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Great Spaces: Up in the Air
A skylit two-storey Yorkville penthouse made for partying
Published: March 2010
Great Spaces: Living History
An antique lover gives his Annex semi the royal treatment
Published: February 2010
Great Spaces: Immaculate Concept
Inside an art collector’s gallery-like Rosedale home
Published: January 2010
Great Spaces: A Room of Their Own
A Beaconsfield couple builds an adults-only
third-floor retreat
Published: November 2009
Great Spaces: Cable Guy
A west-end collector finds a place to hang
his hat—and almost everything else
Published: September 2009
Great Spaces: Lakeside DIY
A Toronto couple constructs an off-the-grid Haliburton hideaway
Published: August 2009
Great Spaces: Home Made
Transforming a crumbling Cabbagetown row house, one artful addition at a time
Published: July 2009
Great Spaces: Gut Feeling
An upmarket renovation tale about people who wanted to live in a glass house
Published: June 2009
Great Spaces: Industrial Strength
Transforming an abandoned warehouse into an ultra-urban living space sounds like an appealing way to snag a cool house in a pricey neighbourhood. But it takes some serious imagination to see a leaking, greasy factory and imagine
a home. Here are six formerly dodgy buildings and their intrepid owners, who endured endless overhauling and interminable renos to weave their lives into the city’s history
Published: April 2009
Great Spaces: No Small Feat
Five pint-sized rooms squeezed into 316 square feet form an ever-changing artist’s lair
Published: March 2009
Great Spaces: Lost and Found
A Queen West rental becomes a meticulously assembled artist’s retreat worth ditching
New York for
Published: January 2009
Great Spaces: Modern Love
Turning a run-down Cabbagetown home into a paean to contemporary design
Published: November 2008
Great Spaces: Orange Crush
Two dedicated vintage hounds, armed with
an eye for bargains and a can of paint, make chic from Craigslist
Published: October 2008
Great Spaces: Can-Con
An east-end home is Arts and Crafts outside, mid-century mod inside, with a healthy dollop of contemporary Canadian art mixed in
Published: September 2008
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