{"id":16310,"date":"2026-04-23T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/16310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:50:54","slug":"this-groovy-mid-century-modern-toronto-home-is-going-for-4-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/16310\/","title":{"rendered":"This groovy mid-century modern Toronto home is going for $4.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve ever wanted to time-travel straight back to the golden age of design, this Toronto listing might be your moment.<\/p>\n

A mid-century modern bungalow at 16 Royal Oak Dr. has just hit the market for $4,500,000<\/a> \u2014 and while that price tag is very now,\u00a0the house itself is delightfully stuck in another era.<\/p>\n

And honestly? That’s exactly why I love it.\"16<\/p>\n

The living and dining room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tucked into a quiet, tree-lined pocket of Toronto’s famous Bridle Path, the home sits on a rare 100-by-133-foot lot surrounded by mature trees that give it a secluded, almost ravine-like feel.<\/p>\n

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The foyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to listing agent Elli Davis, the home was originally built by the owner \u2014 and somehow, it’s still in gloriously groovy original condition.<\/p>\n

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A bedroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Inside, it’s basically a greatest-hits reel of retro design: a sunken living room, zebra-print wallpaper, wood wall panelling,\u00a0a rock garden tucked under the stairs, and yes, some very colourful shag carpeting.\"16<\/p>\n

The primary bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It leans hard into the ’70s \u2014 but the bones? They’re shagadelic, baby!<\/p>\n

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The primary bedroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Floor-to-ceiling windows turn the surrounding trees into living artwork, while the main level spans roughly 2,800 square feet with four bedrooms and a flowing, open layout.<\/p>\n

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The living room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s dramatic in that effortless, mid-century way that feels increasingly rare in a sea of modern new builds.<\/p>\n

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The dining room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dining room overlooks the living space, keeping things open but still defined.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The kitchen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The kitchen flows into a cozy family room with a walkout to a large deck \u2014 ideal if your version of indoor-outdoor living skews more Mad Men than modern condo.<\/p>\n

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A downstairs sitting room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Downstairs, things get even more interesting.<\/p>\n

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The lower level with chrome ceilings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fully finished lower level mirrors the size of the main floor and comes complete with a fireplace, a sunken sitting area, a games room, a bar, and enough space that we are sure they hosted some extremely good parties.<\/p>\n

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The family room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But here’s the reality: as much as this house is a love letter to mid-century design, it’s not going to be everyone’s taste.<\/p>\n

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Another bedroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Somebody may like to renovate or build a new home,”\u00a0Davis told blogTO.<\/p>\n

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A bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And given the size of the lot \u2014 and the prestige of the neighbourhood \u2014 that’s probably what’s going to happen.<\/p>\n

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A rock garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because while the interiors are undeniably cool, this is still the Bridle Path<\/a>, where houses sell for an average of $8 million<\/a> and where teardowning-and-rebuilding\u00a0obnoxiously large McMansions is practically a sport.<\/p>\n

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A sunken tub in one of the bathrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, there’s something kind of magical about a house like this surviving intact.<\/p>\n

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The back of the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a market full of ultra-modern flips and cookie-cutter luxury builds, 16 Royal Oak Dr. feels like a rare chance\u00a0to preserve a piece of design history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’ve ever wanted to time-travel straight back to the golden age of design, this Toronto listing might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8572,4175,8574,8573,48],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-8572","tag-drive","tag-oak","tag-royal","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}