This here “small design oasis in Toronto’s city core,” as described by Stanford Downey, the architecture firm behind it, was featured on HGTV Canada's World's Greenest Homes. As an aside, it makes want to stick a small fork in my eye. I don’t want to know what kind of ‘small’ – read; palatial – oases unfold resplendently behind Cabbagetown’s modest Victorian facades. I’m happy looking at them on my way through the neighbourhood and thinking the quaint row houses so characteristic of the area are almost like my house. This gorgeousity (see gallery below) reminds me that this is in fact not at all the case. This is nothing like my house, but as much as it may hurt, I love looking at beautiful interiors!
While the project’s principle, Drew Hauser, wouldn’t divulge the numbers, he did say that this reno was on the higher end of cost per square footage (shocker). But senselessly opulent it is not. The footprint of Beverley House (you know when a house has a name it's fit to become an ancestral hall) is lean and green, which took a monumental effort to maintain while working closely with the client and preserving the historic facade.
The Green Lowdown:
- HRV- Heat Recovery Ventilator
- Low voc paint and sealants
- Oil finish wood floor from Austria
- Passive solar heating and air vent
- Bamboo flooring in basement
- Zoned heating and cooling
- 3 floor Acoustic soundwall
- Self leveling gypcrete subfloor
- Soya Based spray foam insulation
- Radiant in-floor heating in Ensuite
Beverley House Gallery
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