House of the Week: $2.5 million for a huge Casa Loma home designed by Eden Smith
By Fraser Abe |
By Fraser Abe |
Address: 223 Balmoral Avenue
Neighbourhood: Casa Loma
Agent: Nigel Smith Wain, Re/Max Unique Inc., Brokerage
Price: $2,495,000
The Place: A 1906 mansion near Casa Loma, designed by the famed architect Eden Smith.
Bragging Rights: Eden Smith’s name lends the house some design cachet. He’s responsible for many of the city’s best Arts and Crafts–style homes, including this Rosedale manse.
Big Selling Point: Though the master bedroom has its own bath, the third-floor washroom (and its claw-foot tub) looks like a better place to enjoy a private winter soak.
Possible Deal Breaker: If the new homeowners are looking for more subdued walls, they’ll have to get out the paint and primer (or hire a crew of people to do it for them).
By the Numbers:
• $2,495,000
• 5 bedrooms
• 4 bathrooms
• 109 years old
• 3 storeys
• 3 parking spaces
• 1 famous architect
• 1 outdoor pool
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- The house was designed by Eden Smith, a famed Arts and Crafts architect.
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- Prepare yourself: the wall treatments are pretty colourful in here.
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- There's a little "servery" at the rear of the foyer. It has doors to the kitchen and dining room.
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- Here's the living room.
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- The dining room is huge and formal.
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- Somehow, this colour scheme really works.
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- The family room is on the second floor, along with two bedrooms.
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- Here's the family room. That's a mighty big projector for a space this size.
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- Here's one of the bedrooms.
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- And the second-floor washroom.
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- And here's the master bedroom. Is that bedside lamp a member of Devo?
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- The master bedroom's en suite washroom.
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- There are two more bedrooms and an office on the third floor.
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- There's a small loft space at the top of the stairs.
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- Here's the third-floor washroom, with cool claw-foot tub and primary colour scheme.
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- Here's the office.
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- The smaller of the two third-floor bedrooms.
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- And here's the big bedroom.
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- The view from the back.
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