Designlines’ Top Interiors of 2023
Including a colour-bursting inn and a playful home redesign that puts plywood front and centre
As we approach the end of each year, we reflect on the projects we’ve shared with our readers, the stories we were able to tell and the creativity bursting at the seams of our city. This year, we look back with pride. Toronto’s design community boasts remarkable talent, but before we usher in 2024 with a fresh lineup of extraordinary interior design, let’s take a moment to revisit some of the standout interiors from 2023.
Canalside Studio Got Playful with Plywood
The global design practice reimagines a builder-finished family home in Richmond Hill as a delightful, whimsical space. Using an unexpected material, the studio conjures an animated playfulness in every square foot.
ACDO Reached for Resort Style Living in Niagara-on-the-Lake
The Toronto-based design studio augmented a home’s scenic locale with an interior palette inspired by the adjacent shoreline.
Conik Studios Channelled Year-Round Summer
Built in 1976, this two-storey Mississauga home has an enviable location on a prestigious street. Now it has upped the ante with a California-cool reno.
Luciani Projects Conjured Artful Elegance
Our top interiors list wouldn’t be complete without our Issue 1 cover star. In its previous life, the Baldwin Village condo was a builder-basic mélange of fluorescent light boxes, beige walls, and metre upon metre of pink wall-to-wall carpeting.
Twenty-Two Twelve Made Shakespeare Cool Again
Stratford, Ontario’s Hotel Julie cues a showstopper stay with rooms inspired by the playwright’s works brimming with dramatic flourishes.
Architect Wanda Ely Found Creativity in Curves
A rocky outcrop, deep blue waters, and a sinuous glacier were some of the images found in a client’s inspiration brief to architect Wanda Ely, who turned their dream home into a reality.
A Victorian Reno Kept Its Edge in Little Italy
Local architecture firm AMA renovates a historic semi with timeless design and sustainable solutions top of mind.
A High Park Kitchen Got A High-Class Treatement
Like so many homes in its vicinity, this three-storey Edwardian near High Park had been carved up into apartments long ago. We loved how architect Yvonne Popovska breathed new life into one for a client with a love for classic design.
Batay-Csorba Crafted the Coolest Treehouse
The studio’s Humber River renovation is named one of our top interiors of 2023 for delivering the element of surprise using familiar materials.
Studio AC Escaped the City
We couldn’t forget our Designer of the Year-winning studio on our 2023 top interiors list. North of Toronto, Studio AC crafted a discreet dwelling that creatively blurs the lines between outdoors and in.
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