House of the Week: $1.4 million for a west-end semi with a bedroom by a guy who designed the Drake
House of the Week: $1.4 million for a west-end semi with a bedroom by a guy who designed the Drake
Address: 26 Delaware Avenue
Neighbourhood: Palmerston-Little Italy
Agent: Philip Thompson, Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage
Price: $1,398,000
The Place: A block from Dufferin Grove Park, this turn-of-the-century semi belongs to Grid editor-in-chief Laas Turnbull and his family.
Bragging Rights: The third-floor master suite was designed by John Tong of +tongtong (whose resume includes the Drake Hotel and this pool house). It has an office, a wall of closets and a spa-like bathroom that opens onto a private terrace.
Big Selling Point: A fully-equipped basement apartment has a separate entrance and can be rented out for extra cash (or used as an in-law suite).
Possible Deal Breaker: Though the front of the house has a two-car parking pad, there’s no garage for storing whatever equipment you may need to maintain the backyard garden.
By The Numbers:
• $ 1,398, 000
• $5,337.82 in property taxes
• 3,550 square feet
• 4 bedrooms
• 4 bathrooms
• 3 storeys
• 2 fireplaces
• 2-car parking
• 1 basement apartment
• 1 skylight
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- The exterior of the house. Note the two-car parking pad
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
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- In case there was any doubt, the parking pad is legal. These licenses are difficult to come by
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
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- The main-floor living room, with gas fireplace and built-in bookcases
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
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- This dining area is continuous with the living room
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
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- A floating staircase separates the dining room from the living room
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- The kitchen is also on the main floor. It has stainless-steel shelving
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- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
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- And here's the main-floor powder room
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
- House of the Week: 26 Delaware Avenue
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- The second floor consists of two bedrooms and a family room
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- Here's the family room
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- The family room has this fireplace, surrounded by a concrete wall finish
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- This is one of the bedrooms
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- And here's another bedroom
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- The second-floor washroom
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- The master suite, designed by John Tong, has the third floor to itself. It has built-in storage, an office area, an en suite washroom and a private terrace
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- A close-up view of the master en suite
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- And here's a look at the master suite's office area
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- The house also has this basement apartment
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- This is the backyard garden, looking a little forlorn in cold weather
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- But here's what the garden looks like when the weather is nicer. (Baby not included)
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. It has an office, a wall of closets and a spa-like bathroom that opens onto a private terrace.
Big Selling Point: A fully-equipped basement apartment has a separate entrance and can be rented out for extra cash (or used as an in-law suite).
Possible Deal Breaker: Though the front of the house has a two-car parking pad, there's no garage for storing whatever equipment you may need to maintain the backyard garden.
By The Numbers:
• $ 1,398, 000
• $5,337.82 in property taxes
• 3,550 square feet
• 4 bedrooms
• 4 bathrooms
• 3 storeys
• 2 fireplaces
• 2-car parking
• 1 basement apartment
• 1 skylight
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$ 1,398, 000 – utterly insane! it is bland, not terribly imaginative, not at all well executed, simply and unequivocally a nonsense price. I cannot believe it, not at all.
Wonderful neighbourhood. And nice to see a not overly-blinged out home interior for a change. It looks like real people could live there.
do you even live in toronto? i do. in fact, i live on concord, one street over from this listing. we have great schools, easy subway access, dufferin grove park, amazing shops and restos, the west end y and on and on. given what has sold recently, this place will go for well over $1.5 mil
I grew up playing in that house (in the early 90’s). We lived in the rooming-house next door, on the top level, my mom was a single mom at the time and it was a bachelor apartment for the three of us (mom, sister and I). This house was owned by a pair of doctor’s at the time, who had a baby son. We’d often go over next door and play with him in this great old house…I miss a time when Toronto wasn’t so gentrified, when it was possible to have a wealthy family living beside a poor one…now, everything is so stratified. Kind of sad.
Sure the neighbourhood is nice and all, but $1.4M? Ridiculous. Also: “The family room has this fireplace, surrounded by a concrete wall finish”; ‘concrete wall finish’ = too lazy/cheap to finish it up properly, so let me leave it like this and hope I can convince some shmuck that this is actually in vogue…there’s nothing special about that fireplace, many of the houses in that area have the same one (my grandmother a few streets east has the exact same thing). Come on people, when are we going to stop overvaluing such mundane things?