CUSTOM DETAILING
Forest Hill 14 Ardmore Rd. (Spadina and Old Forest Hill roads) Asking price: $5.595 million Taxes: n/a Bedrooms: 5+1 Bathrooms: 6 MLS# C3552940
Small details come together to create an impressive big picture at 14 Ardmore Rd., a custom home with a smoothcut limestone façade that provides a stately appeal from the curb.
A heated driveway and front steps lead to the front door, which opens onto a foyer with high ceilings. Detailed panelling and trim are featured throughout the home. “Everyone comments about the craftsmanship and fine detail,” says listing agent Adam Weiner of Harvey Kalles Real Estate, who has listed the home with Robert Greenberg.
Ceilings are 10 feet plus on the second floor and more than 11 feet high on the main level. Drop ceilings with rope lights cast a warm glow in the living and dining rooms. The powder room has an onyx floating vanity and oak floors.
The dining room has builtin speakers, a wall unit and seating for at least 10. Swing doors connect it to the kitchen for easy serving.
The “sexy high- end kitchen” has a six- burner stove, two ovens and a double door to the deck, where a gas line for a barbecue is ready and waiting, Weiner says.
A clever, appreciated feature: Shelving is hidden behind the panelling in the kitchen. Buyers always “want more storage but you wouldn’t know it’s there.”
A gas fireplace in the family room, a fifth bedroom and a mudroom with a porcelain floor and custom closets are other features that draw a house hunter’s eye.
Potential buyers “also love the lower level, with tile floor everywhere, a nanny’s suite, a rec room, a bathroom and a home theatre,” Weiner says. “The theatre is roughed in for stadium seating.”
On the second floor, the master suite offers a retreat after a long workday. A gas fireplace provides a cosy ambience and a walk- in closet offers plenty of space for the latest fashions.
The design is luxurious and thoughtful. Instead of wasting space on a hall, a walkthrough closet connects the bedroom and nine- piece ensuite bathroom. The closet, anchored by an island, has white lacquer floor-to-ceiling cabinetry. The home was completed less than a year ago and is on a 50x110-foot property.