A teak-filled top-floor apartment in a Toronto house
Sydney traded a downtown condo for the top floor of a Toronto house and filled it with her grandparents' teak, red kitchenware and her own art.
Sydney moved to Toronto in 2018 for her master's and lived in two downtown condos first. She wanted something quieter and found the top floor of a house, where her landlord lives below. She calls it her favourite place she's ever lived.
The bay windows in the living room sold her. Her grandparents' teak furniture from the late '60s or early '70s fills the room. There's a desk, a TV stand, a coffee table and a working record player. Her dad kept it all under a sheet in his basement for years. A green shag rug recalls the green carpet in the house she grew up in.
A red light fixture in the listing photos set the kitchen's accent colour, and she has stuck with red ever since. She paints fruit and vegetables with their French names for her own kitchen and for friends. Her parents' 30-year-old microwave has turned yellow in the sun and still works.
Her bedroom was too tight with the big closet in it, so her landlord agreed to move it to the hallway. She painted some of her own art after seeing pieces she liked on Instagram and in a Montreal brunch spot.
