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Hazelton Residence III

Renovation and rear addition

Type of work
Renovation and rear addition
Place
Yorkville, Toronto
Completed
2024
Rear addition
New rear addition with aluminum framed doors and windows.
Basement
Lowered with underpinning.
Elevator
Home elevator fitted in a tight hoistway.
Role
General contractor.
Photographs
Leman Construction.

A Yorkville house renovated from the inside out, with a new rear addition, a lowered basement and a new garage. The work ran from shoring and underpinning through the stair, the millwork and a home elevator.

The brief.

Take a Yorkville house back to its structure and bring it back whole: a new rear addition in place of the old one, a basement with real ceiling height, a new garage, and a house that could carry a home elevator.

What we did.

Full interior strip-out, with the old rear addition and garage removed and part of the roof opened. Shoring with soldier piles and lagging, excavation for the new rear addition, and the basement lowered with underpinning and a new slab. Framing, a new roof with 2 balconies, new windows, spray foam insulation, plumbing, electrical and HVAC. Engineered flooring, the kitchen, the primary bath, 2 further baths and a powder room, a staircase with 6 skylights, custom closets, alarm and networking, landscaping, an ipe fence and rear ipe siding, a new garage and a wine room. A home elevator was supplied and installed by an elevator specialist working for us, and the homeowner walkthrough was held in May 2024.

The hard part.

Lowering a basement under a standing Yorkville house means holding the ground up while you dig. The shoring used soldier piles and lagging, then the footings were underpinned in sequence and a new slab poured at the new depth. The second problem was the elevator: the hoistway was tight, with no room for automatic door operators, so the cab and its doors were fitted without them.

The rooms.

IThe new rear addition, its aluminum framed doors open to the balcony and the trees.
IIThe kitchen: oak cabinets, the black hood over the range, the window to the garden.
IIIThe sink with its brass tap and the garden beyond.
IVThe kitchen island, looking out through black framed glazed doors to the courtyard and the garage.
VThe stair from the landing, the treads lit from the wall.
VIThe dressing corridor: oak closet fronts under a skylight, herringbone underfoot.
VIIThe primary bath: a freestanding tub in its stone surround beneath the skylight.
VIIIBrass basin taps on the stone vanity.
IXA finished room: herringbone floor, black framed doors to 1 of the 2 new balconies, late sun.
XThe gable the house kept: buff brick arches and a painted bargeboard above the new windows.

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Hazelton Residence II

Renovation and additions

Yorkville, Toronto.

Walnut clad tub beside a glass shower with brass fittings

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