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An ode to mid-century design, built from scratch
Real Estate

An ode to mid-century design, built from scratch

This couple’s dream house was 20 years in the making

This couple turned their $1.7-million Playter Estates property into a Crayola-coloured fun house
Real Estate

This couple turned their $1.7-million Playter Estates property into a Crayola-coloured fun house

It's been a happy place for a family of five to weather the pandemic

How one family bought a dilapidated old schoolhouse and turned it into an off-the-grid homestead
Real Estate

How one family bought a dilapidated old schoolhouse and turned it into an off-the-grid homestead

It's a totally sustainable, self-sufficient, perpetual work in progress

How one couple turned a decrepit old canning factory into the perfect pandemic retreat
Real Estate

How one couple turned a decrepit old canning factory into the perfect pandemic retreat

It was an epic six-year reno, and the owner opened a furniture showroom partway through so he could afford to deck the place out the way he wanted

This couple bought a decommissioned Methodist church for $95,000 and turned it into a home
Real Estate

This couple bought a decommissioned Methodist church for $95,000 and turned it into a home

Then the pandemic hit and they moved in

This backyard is inspired by idyllic Japanese gardens
Real Estate

This backyard is inspired by idyllic Japanese gardens

The owners built a miniature landscape evoking Canadian cottage country

This couple built a huge backyard paradise
Real Estate

This couple built a huge backyard paradise

It's in the east end, and it's keeping them sane in these pandemic times

This giant backyard is perfect for physically distanced family visits
Real Estate

This giant backyard is perfect for physically distanced family visits

This Etobicoke oasis has "moon gates," a fire pit and a trickling stream

How to squeeze a growing family into an odd-shaped loft
Real Estate

How to squeeze a growing family into an odd-shaped loft

Having kids made loft living tricky, so this couple remade their angular space into a compact, kid-friendly home

A dramatic reinvention of a classic Victorian semi
Real Estate

A dramatic reinvention of a classic Victorian semi

This couple maintains a never-ending cycle of redecoration

A tech executive’s fanciful home with killer ravine views
Real Estate

A tech executive’s fanciful home with killer ravine views

Before her extensive renovations, the place felt like a dark, moody bordello

Great Spaces: The top 15 most popular Toronto home tours of the decade
Style

Great Spaces: The top 15 most popular Toronto home tours of the decade

The most outrageous homes of the decade. Based on your clicks

How Mjölk’s founders turned a rundown farmhouse into a quaintly gorgeous hideaway
Real Estate

How Mjölk’s founders turned a rundown farmhouse into a quaintly gorgeous hideaway

It’s filled with antiques from around the world

How one couple turned an Annex triplex into a light-filled abode for their retirement years
Real Estate

How one couple turned an Annex triplex into a light-filled abode for their retirement years

Victorian maximalism meets post-aughts minimalism—plus lots of art

How two Vancouver expats turned their Summerhill Victorian into a shrine for Canadian art
Real Estate

How two Vancouver expats turned their Summerhill Victorian into a shrine for Canadian art

They’ve turned every nook into an intimate gallery space

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Big Stories

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid
Memoir

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid

The miserable truth about online school
City

The miserable truth about online school

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”
City

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef
Memoir

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever
Memoir

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH
Memoir

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”
Life

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”

<em>Toronto Life&#8217;</em>s top 10 longreads of 2020
Deep Dives

Toronto Life’s top 10 longreads of 2020

They survived Covid, but they&#8217;re not okay
Life

They survived Covid, but they’re not okay

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice
City

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice

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