A onetime one-storey, one-family home in Wychwood now fit for three generations
The Wychwood neighbourhood of Toronto is rather like Mr. Gump’s box of chocolates.
It helped that Andrea and Mike Carter knew the owner and had a fondness for the place. Mr. Carter’s mother, an artist, had purchased the house with her sister in 2006 and had transformed the walkout basement into a light, bright painter’s studio. However, after Mr. Carter’s aunt moved away, the question of where Mr. Carter’s mother would end up popped up.
While the original plan was to tuck the addition as far back as possible from the street and have it sit flush with the rear façade, opposition from a neighbour triggered a rethink. So, what if the addition straddled the middle of the roof and gave “breathing room” to both façades? He’s right. Open the front door to the foyer, trot up the few steps to the main floor and there is a generous amount of sexy wood floor spread out before one’s feet. It takes a few seconds to make one’s way to the staircase to the new second storey. And while that staircase may not sport things like open treads or glassy walls, the skylight above lights it up to create a real impact, turning the ordinary into something special.
Take the left hallway and one can admire the large laundry room built under the stairs. With two kids, says Mr. Carter, “we do a lot of laundry.” It’s a nice place to do it. “We talked about it ad nauseam,” Ms. Myers says. “Like, do we put [the adults] upstairs or do we put [everyone] upstairs and make this a more traditional house with the bedrooms upstairs.”
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