North York Detached HouseAlready a home, before a single piece of furniture arrived.

Location: North York, ON
Project: House renovation
Where: Kitchen, living, bedrooms, baths
Palette: Marble, pale oak, and warm wood

Room in a North York detached house renovation, with pale oak floors, white walls, and marble or warm wood millwork.

The ask

The clients wanted this detached house renovation in North York to feel finished before a single piece of furniture arrived. Stone, millwork, and a few coloured walls had to do the work sofas usually do. The rooms needed to be ready for a family, and clear enough that the architecture could be seen on its own.

The plan

We held most of the house in white walls and a pale oak floor, then spent the material where someone would stop. The living room gets a book-matched marble fireplace and a tall arched window. Bedrooms take one saturated wall each, blue or green, against white closets. The primary bathroom is wrapped in marble, with a white vanity, a corner tub, and a glass shower. A smaller bath uses a navy vanity so it does not repeat that room. The kitchen pairs white perimeter cabinets with a wood island, stainless steel, and a brass faucet. A fluted wood panel and a lit niche take the television wall, and a window seat is built into the hall.

The walk-through

You come up to a light house with a dark stair rail and stone at the door. Inside, the floors stay pale and the rooms stay clear, so the marble, the coloured walls, and the wood island are what you actually see. The fireplace room is the long view. The kitchen is the working one. The bathrooms are the densest. Warm wood, on the island, the vanities, and the television wall, is what keeps the white and the marble from feeling cold.

Rooms