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Ultimate real estate: Celeb designer’s $5M home for sale with ‘lived-in modern’ look
The home has been entirely renovated and had a two-storey addition added onto the back
It’s “always the most fun” to bring your vision for your own home to life, says Toronto-based celebrity interior designer Montana Labelle.
Her four-bed, six-bath home has gone up for sale for just shy of $5 million and there isn't one room where she hasn’t put her personal touch on it.
Her favourite room is the kitchen, she tells Yahoo Finance Canada.
“I just think it's a very unique departure from the sort of typical white kitchen with the white Statuario marble,” she says. “It’s more of a classic kitchen and a fresh palette.”
Potential buyers will find marble finishes and an impressive mix of patterns and textures throughout the house.
Labelle and her husband Russell Gozlan, owner of home construction company Gozlan Group, haven’t owned the 3,800-square-foot home for too long.
They bought it in 2021 and over the span of a surprisingly quick nine-month period, they did a complete gut job and added a two-storey addition, which became the kitchen and master ensuite.
Gozlan says the ensuite is his favourite room because of the his and hers sinks and marble bathtub.
“There was nothing left of it except for the existing mainstream walls. Everything in this house is brand new, top of the line from the studs all the way up to the finishing,” Gozlan said.
The home has new HVAC, plumbing, framing, insulation and electrical, according to the listing.
Before the reno, the home was a “very basic Toronto home,” Labelle says. “There was really nothing to it that was super interesting or unique.”
But when she walks into a room, she says she can envision “pretty quickly” what she wants it to look like. She was already playing around with design ideas from the first day she saw the home, she says.
She describes her style as “lived-in modern.”
“While it definitely feels more on the contemporary side, there's a lot of textures and just as much interest as possible to not make it feel sterile and cool,” she said.
“We always want it to have a great warmth and interest to it while, in my opinion, still feeling a bit classic and not too specific of an era. We never would want someone to look at it and be like, Oh, that was done in 2006 or 2012, we want it to stand the test of time.”
Michelle Zadikian is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow her on Twitter @m_zadikian.
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