Rathnelly House / Studio VAARO - Interior Photography, Wood© Félix Michaud

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  • Area
    Area of this architecture project

    Area: 
    340 m²

  • Year
    Completion year of this architecture project

    Year: 


    2024

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  • Manufacturers
    Brands with products used in this architecture project

    Manufacturers:  Artemide, Fantini, Flos, FontanaArte, Forbes & Lomax, UD-vinduer

Rathnelly House / Studio VAARO - Exterior Photography, Brick, Door© Félix Michaud

Text description provided by the architects. Studio VAARO’s Rathnelly House is a comprehensive and formally expressive renovation of an Edwardian-era semi-detached house in midtown Toronto. The project not only enhances functionality and spatial fluidity but also expands the home significantly from within while respecting its existing footprint. The clients, a professional couple with a young child, sought both a pragmatic and aesthetic transformation: to increase usable floor area, raise ceiling heights, and expand storage, all within a welcoming and distinctive design mediating between openness and seclusion. Extensive structural interventions enabled a fundamental reordering of space. The result is an expansive plan that adds 140 m² (1,500 ft²), increasing the functional area of the home by almost 60%.

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