A thrifted Montreal loft in a former button warehouse
Camille, last seen in her Toronto apartment, moves home to Montreal and fills a 1900s loft with curb finds and a ruin-style mural.
We first toured Camille's home in No. 001, her Toronto apartment. After 14 years in Toronto, she moved back to Montreal, where she grew up, and brought most of her things with her. Her new 550 sq ft loft sits in a building that held a button warehouse in the 1900s. She fell for the tall door that opens onto the street.
Camille works as a flight attendant and as a sustainable interior designer, and almost everything here is secondhand. Her mom helped her reupholster a pair of collectible safari chairs she found on the curb. A mid-century Mactan table sits beside them. She found the vintage mirror in her breakfast nook on Kijiji for $100.
Her biggest project is a mural, made with a mural studio. Plaster around the edges makes it look like an old painting found behind a crumbling wall. She also covered a cherry wood shelf in cement for a stone look that suits the brick and beams.
Her loft has little storage, so she hides clothes in an IKEA credenza and turned the den into a walk-in closet. The bedroom has no window. That suits her, since she often sleeps during the day after night flights.
