House of the Week: $1.6 million for an interior designer’s Casa Loma Victorian
House of the Week: $1.6 million for an interior designer’s Casa Loma Victorian
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma
AGENT: Leeanne Weld, Royal LePage/J & D Division, Brokerage
PRICE: $1,599,000
THE PLACE: A facelift on this detached Victorian in the so-called Republic of Rathnelly allowed its classic details—plaster crown mouldings, ceiling medallions, panelled walls and stained-glass windows—to shine.
BRAGGING RIGHTS: The current owner is interior designer Colleen McGill of McGill Design Group, a regular in Canadian House and Home and on HGTV. She decorated the place herself, natch.
BIG SELLING POINT: The huge third-floor office will make you yearn to work from home. Think cathedral ceilings, a kitchenette with a built-in Miele espresso machine, a private bathroom and French doors leading to a rooftop deck.
POSSIBLE DEAL BREAKER: This house has neither garage nor driveway, so you’ll have to settle for permit parking on the street.
BY THE NUMBERS:
• $1,599,000
• $6,933.07 in property taxes (2012)
• 10-foot ceilings on the main floor
• 4 bedrooms
• 4 bathrooms
• 3 gas fireplaces
• 3 types of flowering trees in front yard
• 2 porthole windows
• 1 in-home office
• 1 koi pond
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- The backyard is fully-fenced and has a side gate. Around the perimeter, there are concrete garden beds and a built-in koi pond
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- Bathroom, lower level
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- Fourth bedroom, lower level
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- Rec room, lower level
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- The lower level contains a rec room, a laundry room, storage closets, a fourth bedroom and a bathroom
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- Office, third level
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- Office, third level
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- The third floor office has vaulted ceilings with exposed mahogany beams, two workstations, and a kitchenette with a sink, a fridge, a Miele espresso machine and a microwave
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- The main bathroom has marble tile flooring, a marble vanity and a large soaker tub
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- Third bedroom, second level
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- Second bedroom, second level
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- Master bedroom, second level
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- The master bedroom has a gas fireplace, as well as his-and-hers closets
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- Powder room, main floor
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- The living room has a bay window with stained-glass detailing and a gas fireplace with a limestone mantle
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- Living room and dining room, main level
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- The dining room can be closed off from the hallway with French doors
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- Breakfast area in the kitchen
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- The kitchen has pine flooring, Shaker-style cabinetry and arched French doors to the backyard
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- The front foyer has a stained-glass transom and plaster ceiling medallion. The front hall leads to an open staircase to the second level
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- Front porch
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- The front yard has a herringbone brick walkway, flowering pear, crab apple and magnolia trees and boxwood hedges
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- This detached Victorian home is in Rathnelly, a small, leafy neighbourhood just west of Avenue Road
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• 10-foot ceilings on the main floor
• 4 bedrooms
• 4 bathrooms
• 3 gas fireplaces
• 3 types of flowering trees in front yard
• 2 porthole windows
• 1 in-home office
• 1 koi pond
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love it
Nice but no garage. There is 1.6 million reasons for a garage.
lovely house until you see the hydro towers
very nice indeed… me like it……remember you are paying for living next to casa loma… I think thats worth $1mil.
@SteveBako – relatively close to Casa Loma but certainly not next to it