A grey Toronto one-bedroom turned warm with walnut and wood

Andy wanted his one-bedroom Toronto apartment to feel earthy and calm. He spent about a year buying one piece at a time. He says about 70% of what's here came from Facebook Marketplace. His EQ3 sofa retails for around $3,000. He paid about $400.

Walnut and acacia wood run through every room, with granite and stone to ground them. He swapped all the silver hardware for black. A 1970s light fixture he thrifted in Hamilton came home with dirty white wires, so he covered them in black heat-shrink tubing.

Andy loves tidy cables, and he hides every one. Smart switches change the lighting from bright work light to sunset tones. When his girlfriend's band comes over, he switches to purple party lights. The concrete ceiling ruled out wiring a fixture over the bed, so he hung plug-in pendants on either side. He built a wood slat headboard wall with lights set into the top.

The bathroom started as a DIY regrout that went wrong. That pushed him into a full remodel with tile his girlfriend chose. The Toto toilet and heated bidet seat, common in Taiwan where he's from, came from Marketplace too.