712 PORTSMOUTH Avenue

A detached two-bedroom midtown home (making a third bedroom would be very straighforward) spread over three impressive floors, with a long list of renovations (4-pc bathroom and foyer 2019, woodstove, deck and two-piece ensuite 2020, furnace and shingles 2021, finished basement 2022), a waterproofed lower level, and a 25 by 19 foot garden studio. 712 Portsmouth Avenue sits well back from the road and once inside you might as well be middle of a forest, so quiet does it seem. The elevated deck and deep, pretty garden behind the house only enhance the effect. The woodstove does its bit too. But there is also a distinctly urban feel here, with its custom kitchen (stainless appliances, quartz counters, subway tile backsplash) and the way that room is open to the rest of the ground floor. There is a bedroom on this level too, and a splendid four-piece bathroom. Upstairs is an office or perhaps a family room, with exposed rafters like the rib bones of a whale, and then the second bedroom with its own ensuite. The double garage behind the house has been transformed, as well as insulated and drywalled. A plug-in heater keeps it comfortable all year. There is even a stage in the corner for you to perform with your band or your more dramatic friends. More profitable would be the creation of a secondary suite back there, or a luxury pad for the in-laws or the teenagers.