The brief was to restore the formal living room of a 1920s Mimico home to its original ceremony — without freezing it in amber. The original cornices and ceiling medallion were beyond repair, so we took the room down to studs and rebuilt the plaster work as replicas from photos of a matched property down the street.
The largest structural move was at the rear wall. A single punched window got replaced with a three-leaf French door package onto the garden, which meant a new steel transfer beam through the ceiling cavity to carry the second floor.
We finished the open kitchen alongside the living room — dark walnut cabinetry, honed marble, brass fittings — so the two rooms read as a single sequence from the street through to the garden.
