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Real Estate News
“We bought and renovated an 18th-century French farmhouse remotely from Toronto for $1.9 million”
Nancy Hanley and Kevan Gorrie’s rural property has six bedrooms, each with an ensuite bathroom, and an in-ground outdoor pool
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Real Estate News
“I left Toronto to renovate a 16th-century Tuscan villa. Now, I host retreats here”
Interior decorator and TV host Debbie Travis spent more than five years and seven figures restoring a ruin in the Italian countryside. Here’s how she did it
Real Estate News
“We moved from Toronto to Italy to renovate a farmhouse from the 1700s”
Alper Ozdemir and Cynthia Liu bought a property in the Puglia region for $333,550. They’re spending another $1.2 million to fix it up
Real Estate News
“We bought a $1.4 million manor home in Welland and turned it into a bed and breakfast”
Kristen and Kathryn Groom spent two months and $60,000 making the property guest-ready
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Real Estate News
“We bought and are renovating a 944-year-old castle in England. It’s a $43 million project”
When Ann Kaplan Mulholland, of
Real Housewives of Toronto
fame, and her husband, Stephen Mulholland, first stepped onto the property, it was full of rats and garbage
Real Estate News
Before and After: How this post-war Burlington farmhouse transformed into a $2.7-million turnkey
Goodbye dark spaces, dated decor and barren backyard. Hello open-concept brightness, modern luxury and, yes, that’s an in-ground pool in the corner
Real Estate News
House of the Week: This $3.4-million Wychwood home with six bathrooms used to be a tiny bungalow
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with a newly decked-out kitchen, a firepit in the backyard, a laneway garage and parking for two cars
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Real Estate News
Before and After: How this classic Beaches semi transformed into a $1.4-million property with Japandi flair
Goodbye wasted space, earth tones and old-fashioned decor. Hello sleek storage, calming colours and contemporary design
Real Estate News
Before and After: How this 1980s Yorkville condo transformed into a modern $3.9-million property
Goodbye vintage decor, cramped rooms and old appliances. Hello contemporary design, airy spaces and an extra $600,000 to the listing price
Real Estate News
Sale of the Week: the bidding war over this $900,000 west-end home shows how renovations pay off
Address: 65 Dovercourt Road Neighbourhood: Niagara Agent: Nuria Cano Ortiz , Keller Williams Referred Realty, Brokerage The...
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Real Estate News
Before and After: a professional renovator revamps an aging Corso Italia house—and ups its value by $350,000
Home renovation TV shows have made “house flipping” shorthand for turning a hasty reno into an easy payout. The reality is a...
Real Estate News
Before and After: a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to buy, renovate and lease an income property
Home renovation TV shows have made “house flipping” shorthand for turning a hasty reno into an easy payout. The reality is a...
City News
Looks like Union Station’s never-ending reno will cost $80 million more than expected
Turns out that overhauling Canada’s busiest transit hub is both tricky and expensive. The price tag on the six-year Union...
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Style
Extreme Makeover: a dated beauty salon gets a second life as a yoga studio
For years, Antje Bulthaup, an architectural designer, had her eye on a house with a fusty beauty salon on the ground floor and a...
Style
Extreme Makeover: a sad suburban basement gets a revamp courtesy of television’s
Love It or List It
Geoff Cullen, an ad executive, and his wife, Mieke, had two kids under five years of age and a suburban house with a dearth of...
Style
Square One Shopping Centre’s revitalization plans are rumoured to include a Topshop store
Mississauga’s Square One Centre has mostly kept out of the ongoing battle among GTA malls, but Oxford Properties Group, which...
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Extreme Makeover: a new staircase adds space and light to a narrow semi in The Beach
When Kate Halpenny, a fundraiser, and Sean Smith, a banker, bought a dreary, oddly divided 1900s semi in the Beach, family members...
Style
Extreme Makeover: an iconic modernist house in midtown gets a 21st-century update
In design circles in the 1970s, this midtown house was considered a momentous piece—the first notable reno by modernist...
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Extreme Makeover: a ho-hum Roncesvalles Victorian gets a rustic-modern overhaul
Not long ago, Emma Reddington and Myles McCutcheon—she’s an interior designer, he’s a photo editor—were on the hunt for a...
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Real Estate News
The Chase: two consultants brave a blind bid process for a home in Kensington Market
The buyer: Diana Wong and Avnish Babla, both 30-year-old management consultants. The story: Wong and Babla first met at Western in...
Style
Yorkdale Mall is getting 12 new stores in 2013, including AllSaints, John Varvatos and Zara Home
Despite pricey renovations at Sherway Gardens, Vaughan Mills and Square One, Yorkdale Shopping Centre keeps strengthening its...
Style
Extreme Makeover: a designer brings old Hollywood glamour to a drab Rosedale home
Interior designer Theresa Casey lives for large-scale projects. So when she and her husband, graphic designer Robert Gray, began a...
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Used House of Vintage on Queen West merges with t-shirt store Bang-On
Used House of Vintage, the only Toronto location of a hip, Vancouver-based vintage retailer, has merged with Bang-On , a custom...
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Extreme Makeover: a Baby Point house loses walls and gains an airy main floor
Situated on a 250-foot lot overlooking a ravine and the Humber River, Tom and Jenni Kapler’s 3,200-square-foot house in Baby...
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Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative