Cantilevered addition by Silver Creek Development eschewed glass-box home expansions for a softer redesign
A renovation of Mike and Lisa Blois’ East York, Toronto home takes a unique approach with a white, layered and cantilevered extension, that came in at a reasonable $400,000.Silver Creek Developments owner Sebastian Lenart feels quite the attachment to a certain east-west thoroughfare in Toronto’s east end. Standing in client Mike Blois’s backyard, he points to a house. “There’s a top-up that we did, a bungalow.
He and wife Lisa, an interior designer, had been thinking about an extension from Day 1, when they’d first purchased as a childless couple 10 years ago: “When we came to look at the house, we walked up the stairs and there was a tiny little window at the top, and you could see the roof of the kitchen, and, you know, everything was small, and we thought, ‘you know, one day…’” he remembers.
Mike and Lisa Blois’ newly minted addition, however, is tons of fun. Curvy, white, layered and cantilevered, it’s a breath of fresh, crisp air in a sea of boring, black, glass-box add-ons that have dominated residential real estate for the past quarter-century. And it came in at a still reasonable $400,000.
Walk further and the new kitchen beckons … but not so much that it grabs all the attention. No, through the use of similar tones in flooring, eschewing upper cabinets and positioning the lower cabinets to left and right, the eye line is straight to the backyard greenery. Enter the kitchen and only then will the first-time visitor realize there are a few steps down to a small mud room/office and the back door.
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