Before After The finished Kingsway home, bright vaulted open-concept living space

The original living space before renovation: closed-off room with dark wood paneling

Full Home · The Kingsway, Etobicoke

The Kingsway Renewal

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ScopeWhole Home + Addition

Timeline38 Weeks

Investment$640k–$720k

Completed2024

The Brief

A house that had stopped fitting a growing family.

The Okafor-Bianchi family had outgrown their Kingsway house room by room: a chopped-up main floor, a dark kitchen facing the neighbour's fence, and nowhere for three kids and two working-from-home parents to coexist without negotiating the dining table. Rather than move, they chose to rebuild the main floor around a new rear addition and let the whole house catch up to how they actually live now.

Over 38 weeks, we opened the main floor to a single vaulted, skylit volume, added a two-storey rear addition for a new kitchen and primary suite above it, and re-ran every mechanical, electrical, and insulation system in the house. The family stayed in a rental four blocks away for the structural phase and moved back for the final finishing stretch.

The Gallery

Room by room.

The new rear addition with black cladding and full-height glazing — The rear addition, black cladding against the original brick.

The vaulted, skylit open-concept main floor — The vaulted main floor, skylights replacing a hallway.

Living room with dark hardwood floors and a gas fireplace — The living room, dark white oak and a new gas fireplace.

A reading corner with a deep green feature wall — A quiet reading corner off the new family room.

“We stopped tripping over each other. That's the whole review, really.”

The Okafor-Bianchi Family - Homeowners

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