When this Toronto row house was made longer, its owner balanced its long lines with shapes and colours
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“If you extend a row house back, it gets darker,” says McKellar explaining a familiar challenge experienced by anyone living in a skinny space with a single natural light source at its end. “But, in fact, it’s much brighter now than it was before when it was 12 feet shorter,” she says. Plant managed the feat through high, open shelving that gets narrower towards the sliding door and transom window, and through light grey and white surface finishes that effectively bounce rays.
The roundness of the side tables is echoed in other fixtures – a globe-like Castore suspension light, from Artemide, and round and half-moon-shaped pulls, from Restoration Hardware, on the cupboards and drawers – that counter the space’s long lines. “We wanted round things because everything about the house is rectilinear,” McKellar says. “It’s almost like a New York tenement apartment or a railroad car, so it’s softened a bit by the round stuff,” she says.
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