House Tours
Condo tour: Luxuriously modern renovation
Modern living room with splashes of colour
House Tours
Condo tour: Luxuriously modern renovation
Entertaining well requires many things: space to interact, multiple seating areas and a waterfall of wine. Designer Jill Woolley’s condo ticks all those boxes.
Jill Woolley is not the sort of woman to be stuck in a closed-off kitchen assembling pigs in a blanket for a dinner party. “I want to be where the action is!” says the designer behind Ali Interiors, breezily padding toward her kitchen wearing orange espadrilles that match her bronzy lipstick.
Three years ago, when Jill and her partner, lawyer Jim Coleman, spotted the two-storey 2,840-square-foot condo with a 500-square-foot terrace in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood, they instantly fell in love with its location and design potential. The building recalls the gilded age of Edith Wharton’s New York City, and the fact that the unit was on the first floor made it feel similar to the house they were downsizing from. The only snag was a large wall that divided the kitchen from the rest of the main floor, stealing square footage from this sociable pair who likes to entertain. But they made an offer anyway – with the condition that they could remove the wall.
Comments