Thornhill HouseA light house, with room for a family to change the mood.

Location: Thornhill, ON
Project: House renovation
Where: Kitchen, living, bedrooms, baths
Palette: White stone, pale wood, and black

Interior of a Thornhill house renovation, with pale walls, a veined stone kitchen, light wood floors, and black fittings.

The ask

The clients wanted this house renovation in Thornhill to stay light and still hold a full family. Cooking, eating, and sitting had to share one view on the main floor. The bedrooms needed room to change mood, a child's room among them, without starting a second material story.

The plan

We kept the main floor pale. A white kitchen with a veined stone counter and black fittings opens toward a dark dining table and a white living room with a linear fireplace. An arched mirror marks the stair, a vertical note in a plan that is otherwise long and horizontal. The primary bedroom stays in that pale language, white bedding and a wood nightstand. A child's room is where colour is allowed, on a pink mural. Another bedroom takes a green bed and a softer green wall. The bathrooms return to a pale wood vanity or a darker one, with black fittings that tie them back to the kitchen.

The walk-through

You come in past the stair and the arched mirror, then into a room where the dining table sits between the kitchen and the sofa. The fireplace is the far wall. Upstairs the house grows quieter, and the pink mural is the one deliberate break. Black metal, on the dining table, the kitchen hardware, and the bathroom fittings, keeps the pale rooms from feeling unfinished.

Rooms