While the owners of this Toronto house wanted to preserve its Queen Anne Revival exterior, the mansard roof and small windows didn’t translate to a lot of livable space for the family of four.
A married couple with two daughters, they needed modern bedrooms, larger closets, and a year-round connection between interiors and a backyard they felt they couldn’t fully appreciate because of the small, old windows. Local firm superkül began addressing the family’s brief by installing a 23-foot-wide dormer with three windows on the garden-facing side of the third-floor kids’ rooms, a step taken to “make the best of the plan, considering the original sloped ceilings and small windows,” says architect Meg Graham, a principal at superkül.
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