A grey Toronto condo reworked with '70s mid-century warmth
Interior design student Sofia brought her love of LA mid-century homes to a grey Toronto condo, using wood panels and peel-and-stick.
Sofia lived in Los Angeles and worked in music journalism before moving back to Toronto. She is now studying interior design, and she owns this condo. When she moved in, it was white and grey, which she hates. She set out to make it feel like the 1970s mid-century homes she loved in LA.
Wood panelling in the dining room and on the TV wall does most of the work. Her dining table is a Milo Baughman burlwood design for Thayer Coggin, found on Facebook Marketplace. She paid a fraction of its value and confirmed it was real.
Sofia shows on her Instagram that good design can fit any budget. She covered the dark grey kitchen cabinets in burl-pattern film and added peel-and-stick tile to the kitchen, bathrooms and island. She painted an IKEA shoe cabinet and topped IKEA shelves with Marketplace tile. Her records sit in plain view in a corner styled like a '70s music bar, lit by an amber lamp from a Palm Springs vintage shop.
Her office doubles as a recording space for her music podcast. She mounted acoustic panels on the side of a PAX unit, and they also work as a pinboard. Concert posters from her LA home cover the wall.
