Style meets comfort in Beach home
Located on a quiet street, five-bedroom home is close to water and downtown core
Location: 39 Maclean Ave., Maclean Ave. and Queen St. E. Asking price: $2,950,000 Size: About 3,472 square feet, plus about 1,323-square-foot finished basement Lot: 40 by 117 feet, no garage, private drive with two parking spaces Taxes: $13,325 (2015) Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 5 A short block away from the sandy Lake Ontario beachfront, this $2.95 million home is less than10 years old, has three floors, a finished lower level and a professionally designed backyard.
“The best part about living in this home is its location. It’s close enough to the water that it is easy to take a kayak down to the lake. My husband, Steven Harmer, and I and our four children love that we can walk to the fireworks, festivals, and shops and restaurants along Queen St. E. and still hang out at the foot of our street and enjoy what has often felt like our own private beach,” owner Elizabeth Doyle Harmer says.
“The home’s open concept, central hall design has really worked for our active lifestyle. A few years ago we added a mud room, and last year we designed a backyard oasis with Earth Inc., complete with a climbing wall,”
The home is part of the Williamson Road Jr. Public School catchment — which has a French immersion program — and is steps from the Martin Goodman Trail.
“This five-bedroom home is on a quiet street in an ideal part of Toronto’s Beach, not too far from the downtown core. It has exceptional quality high-end features, large open principal rooms with high windows and vaulted ceilings, and a thirdfloor master bedroom retreat with a spacious ensuite, a stone gas fire- place and a walkout to a deck with views of the lake,” adds listing agent Kate Craig.
This stately home has lots of curb appeal, with two towering front-yard trees, an interlocking stone walkway, wide stone steps, a garden bed and a white picket fence lining one side. The home’s façade is mostly stone with some stucco, and brick arches around the windows.
The living room and dining room are combined. The living room boasts a large, three-paned, floor-toceiling window with an arched transom window above, a partial vaulted ceiling, a picture window, pot lights and a hardwood floor.
Open to the living room, the dining room flaunts a chandelier, dimmer pot lights, a hardwood floor and a box ceiling.
Highlights of the kitchen include a bar sink, a large and wide granite island/breakfast bar with a sink and three pendant lights above, hardwood floors, a ceramic tile backsplash, a double garden door walkout to a Juliet balcony and high-end stainless-steel appliances such as a six-burner stove and wine fridge.
The adjoining family room is graced with a gas fireplace, sur- rounded by custom built-in cabinetry, hardwood floors, pot lights, a built-in entertainment unit, a double glass door walkout to the deck and another double glass door walkout to the yard. There is also a main-floor powder room.
On the second level are four bedrooms. Two bedrooms overlook the backyard and have double closets, hardwood floors and double garden door walkouts to their own Juliet balcony with phantom screen doors. The two front bedrooms have hardwood floors and closets. There are two three-piece bathrooms on the second floor and a roughed-in laundry room or possible sixth bedroom.
The third floor is home to the master bedroom retreat and has three double closets, a hardwood floor, a double glass door walkout to a huge balcony with custom-built planters, two picture windows, wall sconces, a gas fireplace with a stone surround, and a five-piece ensuite.
Features of the ensuite are a marble floor, tub surround and shower floor and tile, a glass-enclosed shower stall, his and hers sinks, and a corner soaker tub with a window above.
There is also a third floor office room with a double closet and builtin shelves.
The finished lower level has a massive open-concept recreation room that has ample space enough for two comfortable seating areas and a playroom. It boasts a partial limestone heated floor, a partial carpeted floor, pot lights and a walkout to the backyard. There is also a three-piece bathroom, a wine cellar and a laundry room in the basement.
To have a look at this property, contact listing Kate Craig, DeClute Real Estate Inc., Brokerage, 416-686-9618 or 416-520-5924; declute.com; toursler.com/39-maclean. Although we try to provide the most up-to-date information available, we cannot guarantee features as listed. Please contact the realtor for latest details. To make a submission to Home of the Week, email soldhome@rogers.com.