A Plateau apartment where light oak meets bold colour
Creative director Edmund shares his renovated 890 sq ft Montreal apartment with his son, and hides almost everything out of sight.
Edmund shares this 890 sq ft apartment in Montreal's Plateau with his son Arthur and their cat. They moved in about five years ago. It sits on the second floor. The family downstairs has the same floor plan, but the kitchen upstairs was renovated and opened up to the dining room.
He started with light oak. A dining table from a local Montreal maker came first, and he bought a cabinet to match. He even swapped his dark rosewood piano for one in a lighter wood. After a while the Scandinavian look started to bore him, so he added bright cushions, an accent table and colourful prints.
Edmund hides as much as he can. The pantry covers the electrical panel. The fridge is built in. A storage bench lines the dining table and doubles as his son's favourite seat. He cut an opening in the bathroom closet so the cat's litter box sits inside. The desk folds away, and a fold-down table in the bedroom works as a music corner.
The dining area gets the least light, so he hung a large mirror on the brick wall to bounce it around. In the bedroom, a projector hides behind a slot in the wall for movie nights.
