Landing Pad
Two views of Toronto?s first laneway house, which the author?and Vinyl Café host?calls home.
TEXT Stuart McLean
PHOTOS Robert Burley
You enter through what feels like a side door, for when you come in, you land in the kitchen. This gives an immediate sense of comfort to your arrival; an informal and friendly feeling.
A friend visiting the house for the first time said that seeing it was ?the most invigorating and utterly comfortable experience I have had in years.?
When I first moved in I wondered if it would change me?if all the glass and all the openness, the double doors and soaring ceilings would alter the way I lived. Could design overcome habits" Could a space change behaviour"
It did.
All that glass, that draws you out and connects you to the outside, drew me in. At that point in my life I used to take my dinner in restaurants as often as five nights a week. I was a regular at a little café an easy walk away. I enjoyed the nightly routine?the walk to and fro, and the welcome I received when I got there. A day or two after I had settled in Jeff?s house I headed off for dinner, as was my habit. I only got a block or two before I pulled up short. I was overcome with a feeling that I didn?t want to go?I didn?t want to leave the house. I turned around, went to the market, bought groceries and cooked my own supper. The house had called me back.
I discovered that working in the kitchen, looking over the dining room to the fireplace and out onto the terrace, i...
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