229 Wright Avenue - RONCESVALLES/HIGH PARK (UPDATE)
This is a 5+1 bedroom (I only see 4+1), 4 bathroom house on a 35 x 132 foot lot with a 2 car garage and 2 parking spots at 229 Wright Avenue.
And I love it.
It's just down the street from the 60s flashback house that I posted earlier this week at 280 Wright Avenue...
But this house is larger and it has been renovated top to bottom with a big addition in the back (and though I like this addition way more, it reminds me of the house at 74 Elm Avenue in Rosedale that sold for $2,575,000 in June) .
According to the listing for this house...
It has been featured on Cityline, in Canadian House and Home, and in Chatelaine.
(Can't help it!)
And I can see why. It's amazing.
Some readers who have already commented on it in the post for 280 Wright Avenue have mentioned that they don't like the wallpaper in the front hall. I don't mind it.
But seriously, even if you didn't like it, that is a minor change in a house that is amazing.
My only thing that I don't love is the third bedroom on the 2nd floor. There is no window, only the window opening to the 2 story family room addition. But if you needed a 3rd bedroom for a child instead of a guest room (which is what this seems to be), I would make that open area on the second floor a closed bedroom as it has the windows, and make that bedroom the office.
Otherwise, I wouldn't change anything.
This house is listed at $2,375,000.
Is Roncesvalles about to see 'Rosedale prices'?
Considering that this house is probably going to sell over...
I think so.
P.S. I don't usually have a thing for stairs, but I love these stairs...
UPDATE: Thanks to the reader below for pointing out that this house belongs to Virginie Martocq, former Home Editor of Chatelaine.
Here she is giving a tour of the kitchen and addition on Cityline...
And this Chatelaine article talks about how her decisions were made for her kitchen and why the bathroom is in the front hall (which does tighten the space as she mentioned).
There were before photos with the article, but they aren't showing up right now. The only one that remains is the photo of the back of the house before the addition...
That is a full back to the studs reno.
Woops, this Chatelaine article has the before photos...
And one more during photo...
(thanks to everyone who sent this in!)
