Distinctive Spaces

Recently, we did some work at a condo for some long standing clients who had bought a 600 SF unit in downtown Toronto. We changed all the flooring, painted the whole place, changed the lighting, installed a new faucet and next month we’ll be delivering and assembling some new furniture.

So far, it’s looking pretty cool!

Recently we had the opportuniy to do some additional work for a long standing client.

One of the things he asked for was some sort of cabinet to hide his trash, recycling and compost bins. Being a condo, there was no space in the existing kitchen cabinets for any type of roll out.

The best place to put a new cabinet so that it would be out of the way was under a shelf we had installed along the kitchen window.

We custom designed and built a cabinet that would hold three bins and be completely tucked out of the way and painted it to match his existing upper cabimets. The compost bin is in the middle section under a couple of open shelves. The result is a fantastic use of space.

I’m proud of all of my work but every so often I work on something that truly makes me step back and say “wow”.

This is how I feel when I look back on the work I did for a good friend at his Toronto loft.

The Wrigley Lofts is the old Wrigley gum factory that was built in 1916 and was used by Wrigley’s until the 1960s. The building was left abandoned until the late 1990’s when it was purchased and coverted into residential lofts.

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I can’t take credit for some of the work that was done renovating this loft, there were a lot of people involved. I did all of the bathroom tiling, the bedroom flooring, drywall soundproofing, a lot of painting and a fair amount of design consulting.

This home is stunning. It retains many of the original architectural features such as fluted columns, concrete floors, 13 1/2′ ceilings and the original factory windows and all of the design choices made were period appropriate.