House of the Week: $4.3 million for a modern Lawrence Park mansion with a seriously impressive fish tank
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a modern Lawrence Park mansion with a seriously impressive fish tank
Address: 147 Ridley Boulevard
Neighbourhood: Lawrence Park North
Agent: Robert Greenberg, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage
Price: $4,298,000
The Place: A five-bedroom, eight (yes, eight) bathroom estate near the Cricket Club.
Bragging Rights: The wall-to-wall walnut-lined office, with a ribbon of stainless steel embedded throughout, makes for a pretty impressive place to hold meetings—or at least, reply to emails.
Big Selling Point: There are so many to choose from: is it the 350-gallon fish tank that straddles the living and dining areas? The Chihuly-esque sculpture above the staircase? The wine cellar? The dry sauna in the basement? The outdoor pool with waterfall? Or maybe just the eight-seat theatre room?
Possible Deal Breaker: This is a whole lot of house. Even just filling up the 18-by-11-foot walk-in closet would be more than the average buyer could handle.
By the Numbers:
• $4,298,000
• 5 bedrooms
• 8 bathrooms
• 350-gallon fish tank
• 1 wet sauna
• 1 dry sauna
• 1 theatre room
• 1 outdoor pool
• 1 wine cellar
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- Not everyone loves an ultramodern box house, but this place is, at least, a well-designed one.
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- The entryway is all glass.
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- Here's the family room.
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- It's a good thing whoever buys this place will probably be wealthy enough to pay someone else to clean the algae out of this built-in fish tank.
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- The dining room has a built-in wine cellar.
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- And here's the living room. All the floors are walnut, by the way.
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- The kitchen is suitably fancy and huge.
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- Cool sink.
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- The landing between the first and second floors is so huge that it's basically a room unto itself.
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- The walls and ceiling are covered with walnut veneer and shot through with steel.
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- There are four bedrooms on the second floor of the house.
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- Here's one bedroom.
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- And here's that bedroom's en suite bathroom. (They all have them.)
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- Another bedroom.
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- And this bedroom has its own built-in bench and storage unit.
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- The master bedroom has its own fireplace, naturally.
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- The walk-in closet is pretty much the size of a bachelor apartment.
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- The master bedroom's en suite washroom is covered in porcelain tile, and the floor is heated.
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- Below the main floor but above the basement is this "great room," with its own wet bar.
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- Here's the basement rec area.
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- The home theatre is also in the basement.
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- Here's the deck.
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- And the pool.
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 bathroom estate near the Cricket Club.
Bragging Rights: The wall-to-wall walnut-lined office, with a ribbon of stainless steel embedded throughout, makes for a pretty impressive place to hold meetings—or at least, reply to emails.
Big Selling Point: There are so many to choose from: is it the 350-gallon fish tank that straddles the living and dining areas? The Chihuly-esque sculpture above the staircase? The wine cellar? The dry sauna in the basement? The outdoor pool with waterfall? Or maybe just the eight-seat theatre room?
Possible Deal Breaker: This is a whole lot of house. Even just filling up the 18-by-11-foot walk-in closet would be more than the average buyer could handle.
By the Numbers:
• $4,298,000
• 5 bedrooms
• 8 bathrooms
• 350-gallon fish tank
• 1 wet sauna
• 1 dry sauna
• 1 theatre room
• 1 outdoor pool
• 1 wine cellar
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Ouch – what a garish dog’s breakfast.
Developers, if you’re going to try to attempt ‘modern’/contemporary design – hire a design professional. A good architect can be had for ~10% of construction budget and is more than worth that fee, bringing cultivated taste and discretion to the project.
My sympathies go out to the stone, glass and wood vulgarized in this project.
There are only rocks in that tank. Where are the fish?
I wonder who the Builder was ?????
It’s so… angular. I’d constantly be worried I might cut myself on something.
LOL
Isn’t this Lyttton Park?
Whoever designed this house needs to learn how to edit.
No pictures of the garage? How disappointing
My uncle’s house resided on this property. He got a tour of the new digs by the developer who bought his property MONTHS ago so this house must have been sitting on the market for quite a while. Wonder why?
what a garish, excessive mess. Truly awful.
I thought I’d have a serious case of house envy before I clicked on those photos…. and while I was looking at them I was questioning my own taste and wondering how the hell would I furnish this place and make it look good and like a home at the same time….. Fact is… it’s not very pretty.
This is NOT Lawrence Park. And although I get that everyone has the right to their own taste this is not respectful of the surrounding homes.
Very cold looking, no warmth of a home at all.
I trying my best to review this lovely 4,3 million estate but your web site is Fucked – Up !
Easy Paul, it’s a coral garden. Bit trickier than fish.
As far as I’m concerned, this estate is only missing an elevator, running from the basement all the way up to the top floor, because of my old legs.
i LOVE this house. Love the wood. Love the glass. Love the cohesive design. Though- Ridley is not Lawrence Park.
They are probably pretending someone lived in it for a year on paper so they can avoid paying business taxes. Are they a licensed new home builder ? Big issue with “builders” and this housing bubble.
I’m almost 150% sure that a “design professional” was involved in a $4M project, it just happens that this does not fit your taste or idea of modern. So be it, you don’t have to buy it (nor do I). (and before you ask, no, I don’t know the seller, builder, agent, or have zero interest financial or otherwise in this property)
What is your idea of “warmth”? This is out of sincere interest. It’s a part of the house-purchaser’s mentality that I have a hard time grasping.
I wasn’t aware you needed a license to build a house. You need to have a license to do some types of construction, yes. But what I think you’re referring to is *registering* with Tarion, for the sake of supplying the purchaser with a new home warranty. It’s not a process that requires licensure, in the traditional sense.
If it’s “lived in”, it’s not a new home; thus, it’s not within the scope of Tarion’s coverage, or the applicable legislation’s requirements.
Not registering with Tarion does not make the builder any less of a builder. Nor does this have an impact on the housing bubble. I’m curious as to how you’re drawing a relationship between the housing bubble and the credentials of builders.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, for the right person, it will be a be a beautiful house, but for me, it looks very sterile. All the chrome and glass gives it a very cold hard lines. It doesn’t have that “homey” lived in look. But that is just me and what I like in a home.
A 350 gallon fish tank that is crazy !! | SA