Toronto Duplex

As was the design back in the day, this house featured a lot of tight hallways and small rooms both upstairs and down. The owners wanted to modernize the space by opening these walls up. They also wanted to split the residence into 2 legal units, one upstairs and one main floor and basement. The basement was done a few years after the rest of the house but is now one cohesive space.

Taken After Some Walls And A Lot Of Plaster Was Removed

Main Living Spaces

The walls were plaster and lath and the wiring was knob and tube. This all had to go. Head to toe the only thing that stayed was the floor joists and stone exterior walls.

framing

Once all the old infrastructure is removed we frame and start to run all the new lines for the new design.

Framing Details

All the squeaks of an old house are eliminated during our framing process. Also, It's not featured in this shot, But the rear brick wall was cut open on both floors to allow the back room to be integrated into the new design.

Spray Foam Complete, New Arch Cut And Framed, New Sliding Door Installed

Legally Separating units means 2 of everything: Furnace, A/C, Electrical, Entryways, ETC. It also means soundproofing the units using insulation and vibration reducers and providing fire breaks with special drywall, caulking and pipe crushers amongst other things.

New Stairs Are In And Sound/Fire Break on Its Way

Main Floor Kitchen (not this blurry in real life)

One Of The Only Pieces Saved And Refinished. We Also Added A Slate Inlay

New Main Entry Door Leading To Separated Unit Entrances Inside And Separate Climate Controlled Heating.

Basement

We were called back by the owner of the main floor unit to renovate their basement, which was dark and dank and no place for the clients planned child to be. The basement included the clients only bathroom which was very dated and had smells which could only point to mould. They modernized the space with clean finishes, full marble walls, and a sleek metal staircase.