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A few non-right angles, a few curves in the drywall and playing with how light penetrates a space takes the edge off a Toronto home

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This Toronto garage was converted into a bright and airy laneway suite Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. After more than 100 years in a Toronto neighbourhood, an old garage that looks like a little barn got a new lease on life as a laneway suite. Dubbed the Little Barn Laneway Suite by Toronto architects Creative Union Network, the structure on Northcote Avenue in Beaconsfield Village was last used as a garage but its original use is not clear. The ground floor has just enough space for a kitchen area...

February 12, 2021 Design collective Creative Union recasts a decades-old structure as a minimalist pied-a-terre for a graphic designer. In some ways, this little shack in the Beaconsfield Village neighborhood hasn’t changed much at all since it was erected 100-plus years ago. Though the white exterior has faded with time, the original wood paneling, A-frame outline, and hay-bale window remain. But inside its barn-board facade, architect Timothy Mitanidis of Creative Union has created something wholly new: an artfully compact, modernist laneway home. The homeowner brought his own excellent t...