House of the Week: $800,000 for a cottage-like home in Parkdale

Address: 8 Glenavon Road
Neighbourhood: Parkdale
Agent: Tracy Logan and David Patrick Bailey, Remax West Realty Inc., Brokerage
Price: $799,000
The place
An Arts and Crafts bungalow on a dead-end street near the southern tip of Parkdale, beside the Gardiner Expressway.
There’s a wood-burning fireplace in the living room:
A small dining area, decked out with antique wood:
The kitchen could maybe use a refresh:
There are two bedrooms on the main floor. Here’s one of them:
And here’s the master bedroom:
The two bedrooms share this bathroom:
There’s a separate apartment in the basement:
Here’s the basement living room. Raise your hand if you’ve ever owned that exact Ikea couch:
The basement bedroom:
And the backyard retreat:
The history
The owners believe this house, built in 1917, was the first on the street. It was originally intended as a cottage. (Before the Gardiner, it was lakefront property.)
Big selling point
The sun-drenched living room in the front of the home, with its huge bookshelves, wood ceiling and hardwood floors, seems like a good place to enjoy a book or three:
Possible deal breaker
With only two bedrooms on the main floor (plus a basement apartment with one bedroom), there isn’t a ton of room for a large family. But a detached house in west Toronto for less than $800,000 is so rare that it might be worth putting off a second child for.
By the numbers
• $799,000
• $3,976.48 in taxes (2016)
• 2 bedrooms (plus a basement apartment)
• 2 fireplaces
• 1 bathroom (plus another in the basement apartment)
• 1-car garage