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Classically elegant and family-friendly Christmas home
An elegant, yet family-friendly Christmas home
House Tours
Classically elegant and family-friendly Christmas home
A semi-detached home in Montreal is decked for the holidays with a designer’s signature British sensibility.
Outside, it’s a typical December day in Montreal: frigid temperatures, leaden skies and snow-covered everything. But inside this family home, these wintry attributes are easily forgotten. Behind vibrant royal blue front doors, the space is calm and bright, and the air is filled with the sweet scent of freshly baked shortbread cookies. Any visitor would think it has always been this welcoming, but they’d be wrong.
Nicola and Matthew Marc – she’s a British-born stylist, designer and co-owner of Marc Gold Interiors; he works in IT – purchased the 1915-built 3,000-square-foot house in 2013 with their growing family in mind (their daughter, Clara, is now 8, and son, Luka, is 19 months). Like any ugly duckling-to-swan transformation, the place had potential – if you looked past its peach walls, dark rooms and poky kitchen and focused on the good stuff. Nicola fell in love with the 10-foot-high ceilings and the original newel posts, crown mouldings and wide baseboards. “I imagined these elements in new surroundings that were elegant yet family friendly,” she says.
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