Condo of the Week: $650,000 for a Wallace-Emerson loft with plenty of office space
Condo of the Week: $650,000 for a Wallace-Emerson loft with plenty of office space
Address: 692 St. Clarens Ave., Unit 7
Neighbourhood: Wallace-Emerson
Agent: Liz Bak Durocher, Royal LePage York North Realty, Brokerage
Price: $649,900
The Place: This three-storey live-work loft has an office and living room on the ground floor, a big dining room and kitchen on the second floor and a bedroom with an en suite bathroom up top.
The History: The building was once a factory for Gray Manufacturing and Machine, an industrial tool company founded in 1912. (The firm got its big break a few years later, when it started recycling brass howitzer shells used on the front lines of the First World War.) The building eventually became a cabinet factory and, in 1988, was converted into 11 condos. Unit 7 has had a few owners, most recently a photographer who added a luxurious new kitchen.
Big Selling Point: This building’s lofts were designed with work-from-home types in mind. In fact, the office just past the unit’s front entrance is one of the reasons the current owner chose to buy.
Possible Deal Breaker: The master bedroom lacks a door and the second-floor dining area is partially open to the living room below, so privacy is difficult to come by. Then again, there is one little hideaway: a terrace with high walls.
By The Numbers:
• $649,000
• 1,464 square feet
• 167-square-foot terrace
• 13-foot ceilings in the dining room
• 2 bathrooms
• 1 bedroom
• 1 office
• 1 Juliet balcony
• 1 parking space
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- The building was once a tool factory. Now it's an 11-unit condo building.
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- The rooms are spread over three levels. This light-filled office is on the main floor.
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- Also on the main floor: this living room. The ceilings are ten feet high, and they've got exposed beams.
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- The kitchen and dining room are on the second floor. Transparent furniture is bad at hiding fingerprints, but it's great at showing off wood floors.
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- The seller had the kitchen completely revamped. It has an eight-foot, glass-topped centre island and stainless steel appliances. Beyond those double doors is a Juliet balcony.
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- The entrance to the terrace is off the stairway that connects the second and third floors of the house.
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- Here's the terrace.
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- The master bedroom, on the third floor, is open to the floor below. IKEA fans will note that the closet is from the Pax series.
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- The master bedroom's en suite bathroom has Brazilian slate flooring.
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 The building eventually became a cabinet factory and, in 1988, was converted into 11 condos. Unit 7 has had a few owners, most recently a photographer who added a luxurious new kitchen.
Big Selling Point: This building's lofts were designed with work-from-home types in mind. In fact, the office just past the unit's front entrance is one of the reasons the current owner chose to buy.
Possible Deal Breaker: The master bedroom lacks a door and the second-floor dining area is partially open to the living room below, so privacy is difficult to come by. Then again, there is one little hideaway: a terrace with high walls.
By The Numbers:
• $649,000
• 1,464 square feet
• 167-square-foot terrace
• 13-foot ceilings in the dining room
• 2 bathrooms
• 1 bedroom
• 1 office
• 1 Juliet balcony
• 1 parking space
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Is this $650k or $725?
the person who lives there has faaabulous taste in decor
It’s $649,000, like we say up top. We’ve fixed the discrepancy.
snark alert!
Awesome to see our images here!