$9 million for a mid-century marvel in Rosedale with a secret garden and a winter-proof courtyard

Location: Rosedale
Price: $9,000,000 Size: 2,827 square feet plus a 627-square-foot basement Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 5 Parking spots: 3 Real estate agent: Leeanne Weld Kostopoulos, Royal LePage/Johnston and Daniel Division

The Place

A four-bedroom, five-bathroom green sanctuary in Rosedale. The home’s U-shaped design encloses a private courtyard with a heated in-ground pool. It also comes with a built-in garage and smart tech that regulates surveillance, lighting and audio-visual equipment. The property is located on a ravine lot, backing onto the abandoned rail line that towers over the Evergreen Brick Works. It’s within walking distance of Mount Pleasant Cemetery and the neighbourhood’s many trails. And motorists are a short drive from both Yonge and the DVP.

The History

The understated original house was built in 1958. Around 2002, new owners expanded the place with a jumbo addition concealed behind it, creating the new courtyard. The current residents purchased it in April of 2021, adding a pool to the courtyard as well as upgrading the landscaping, floors, HVAC, windows, doors, skylights and bathrooms.

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The Tour

The façade was recently re-bricked and re-painted. The front driveway and all the external walkways are heated.

The main entrance, past an iron security gate with a keypad, is actually a side entrance, surrounded by evergreen planters and a sculpture by Ron Baird.

Here’s the addition, home to an open kitchen and dining room. A full wall of sliding doors leads to the courtyard, and those beamed ceilings are embedded with both recessed halogen lighting and directional lighting.

In the kitchen: a Bianco Raffaello marble backsplash and island, a floating shelf, an integrated farmer’s sink, custom oak cabinets, and a concealed Sub-Zero fridge and freezer. There’s also a Lacanche six-burner gas stove with double ovens and a Wolf remote exhaust hood. And that section of exposed brick in the background is original.

Now for the dining room, which walks out to a large deck made of Brazilian hardwood.

This is the living room. The dining room sits behind the gas fireplace and mounted TV. That’s the courtyard on the left and the backyard on the right.

A reverse angle of the living room shows the lounge and smart sound system.

The office is located in the original structure. It walks out to the street.

There’s also a pocket-door powder room on the main floor, with a marble vanity and brass fixtures.

Heading upstairs highlights this catwalk leading to four bedrooms (the main suite has its own wing) and three bathrooms.

Speaking of which, here’s peek inside the main bedroom, with hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, hidden Sonos speakers, automated blackout blinds and wall-to-wall windows with a view of the ravine.

The main ensuite comes with a free-standing Claybrook soaker bathtub (the owners say it weighs half a tonne and had to be craned into the property) and a separate glass shower surrounded by onyx.

Don’t forget the double vanity, with onyx counters and integrated sinks with brushed-brass fixtures.

A trip down the hall reveals this skylighted landing facing the front of the property.

Here’s a secondary bedroom.

This bedroom is currently set up as a fitness zone, with hardwood floors, a wall-to-wall mirror and floor-to-ceiling windows.

As for the shared bathroom, it’s lined with brass fixtures, a shower with a travertine bench and a trough-style vanity.

The courtyard charmingly divides the old from the new.

All the outside surfaces are heated, including these limestone slabs from Kentucky, for winter dips in the pool, which can heat up to 40 degrees.

A Japanese-style bridge weaves through the manicured gardens.

Finally, here’s a look at the rear of the residence and its handsome ipe deck—an ideal spot to watch the Don’s wildlife.

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