1950s home redesigned into a modern yet warm and unpretentious house that reflects its owners
When designers Salina and Jason Marshall of Marshall Design Studio had a professional photographer document Jeffrey and Anne Parker’s Peterborough, Ont.,Which makes sense, of course, but it was also too bad, “because you look like your house; it’s very reflective of your style, your personality,” Ms. Marshall says.
The chunky amber-and-grey terrazzo tile in the foyer, which wraps around a corner to become the Malm fireplace hearth, for instance, speaks of informality, playfulness and love of mid-century modern design, but also of low maintenance and quick cleanup, which the shift-working health care providers require. So, too, does soundproofing achieved from pocket doors, and the walkout basement entrance to a guest bedroom “where sometimes I’ll sleep after I’ve been working all night,” says Mr. Parker.
While one might not want to go all Stygian in a small bedroom , it works here because of two things: the abundance of golden birch and the creamy-white cathedral ceiling. The birch, which is used on multiple screens throughout the space, informs the ribbed shape of the fireplace wall, and it clads “The Block.”
The high, peaked ceiling – under which are the public areas of the house – was present before the gutted-to-the-studs renovation, but the peak originally faced the other way. “A big turning point for the design was rotating this roof,” says Ms. Marshall, who met her clients while picking up her little one at preschool. “We had a 3-D model of it.”
“People may not even realize it, but [they do] subconsciously notice it’s a real material,” says Mr. Marshall, looking down at the white oak floors. “You can tell fake wood.”
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