en.Wedoany.com Reported - Williamson Williamson has renovated an Edwardian-style home built in the 1910s in Toronto's Annex neighborhood, reshaping the interior space through sectional adjustments and targeted insertions rather than simple expansion. The architects preserved the Edwardian brick facade and most interior elements, including two original stained glass windows, while drawing on the house's curves and colors to give it a modern appearance.
After their daughter entered university, homeowners Eric Stevenson and Carolyn Livingston did not require additional space but rather a reconfiguration of the house to gain flexibility and prepare for the next phase of life. The rear third of the house was reorganized in plan and section to create a spacious feel and a kitchen for one owner who identifies as a "very serious cook." The floor was lowered nearly to ground level, and the house extends six feet outward, opening to the rear patio through a wall of wood-framed Lepage windows. Deep eaves and automatic sunshades regulate western sunlight as needed. Outdoors, Peterson Tegl brick cladding adds modern vitality to the rear facade while echoing the neighborhood's red brick style.
Color establishes a connection between the original house and the new insertions. The front door is painted sea green, hinting at interior changes; kitchen cabinets are deep sage green; the walls and ceiling of a powder room are painted ochre, a color taken from the restored stained glass. The kitchen's scalloped INAX tiles extend from the countertop to the ceiling, echoing the curved plaster molding preserved in the front hall. In one corner of the kitchen, another curve marks the passage to the adjacent dining room, which has been shortened to a still comfortable length, with the ceiling reimagined as a conical plaster form rising to a circular skylight.
The upper floor was reorganized rather than expanded. The renovation consolidated the rear of the second floor into a master suite with a walk-in closet, with deep recessed windows ensuring privacy and stainless steel panels drawing light in while limiting views from neighbors. The front rooms upstairs retain their proportions, original moldings, and window openings.
These interventions reorganized the house by lowering the kitchen, adjusting levels, and finely tuning light and views in all directions, without altering its streetscape presence or deviating from a century of construction and reconstruction.
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