79 Colborne St is beautiful, of course, but not particularly glamorous. It is more glamorous-in-waiting, like the brilliant teenager slumming it in front of a Playstation console (in an old Lou Reed T-shirt). The colours don’t match (the third-floor loft is the colour of a London bus while the laundry nook is lined with the wildest Florida lime), and the flooring involves a looking-glass sort of checkerboard as well as thick coral shag-pile in a bedroom or two. It is a forgotten bag of liquorice all-sorts, a mixed load of laundry. Which is to say that you will likely fall in love immediately with this downtown townhouse, and then tease from it an altogether brilliant third act. The living and dining rooms are but high-ceilinged escorts to the fabulous staircase, its octagonal newel post like something plundered from a Victorian gambling den. There is a gas fireplace in the kitchen with the wingspan of Pavarotti, and beyond that a courtyard where you surely negotiate the end of wars, the start of an affair. You park your Bugatti back there, or the horses you had grazing all morning at McBurney Park. There are three bedrooms on the second floor and the loft can be a fourth, with its own ensuite, as if the plan all along was to both rise above the fray and ride out the apocalypse. I’d finish the basement too, and install a Churchillian pool table beneath sulphur beams, line the stone walls with mahogany humidors. You see where I’m going with this: 79 Colborne St is that oil painting the conservationist examines with cotton swabs and then returns with the news that you’ve bought yourself a Rembrandt. It is the perfectly designed magic trick; the handsome devil you nearly missed. (id:47421)
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Detailed Information
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
2
Lot
21 x 95 ft
Features
Southern exposure, Skylight
Listing Contract Date
2024-05-16
Location Description
Barrie or Sydenham Street to Colborne
Ownership Type
Freehold
# of Parking Spaces
1
Property Type
Single Family
Transaction Type
For sale
Zoning Description
UR5
Building
Appliances
Dryer, Refrigerator, Stove, Washer
Basement Development
Unfinished
Basement Type
Full (Unfinished)
Constructed Date
1900
Construction Style (Attachment)
Attached
Cooling Type
None
Exterior Finish
Brick
Foundation Type
Stone
Heating Fuel
Natural gas
Heating Type
Forced air
Stories Total
2.5
Type
Row / Townhouse
Utility Water
Municipal water
Rooms
Room
Level
Dimensions
Notes
4pc Bathroom
Second level
13'8'' x 10'7''
Bedroom
Second level
11'5'' x 10'1''
Bedroom
Second level
11'6'' x 10'0''
Bedroom
Second level
13'9'' x 12'4''
4pc Bathroom
Third level
13'11'' x 13'1''
Loft
Third level
19'11'' x 17'7''
Breakfast
Main level
11'10'' x 7'1''
Kitchen
Main level
13'2'' x 10'11''
Dining room
Main level
14'3'' x 14'2''
Living room
Main level
14'0'' x 13'9''
Land
Total Size
under 1/2 acre
Access Type
Road access
Sewer
Municipal sewage system
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