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Whole-home renovation · Guildwood, Scarborough · Summer 2026

The finished Guildwood kitchen: tall white cabinetry, a fluted dark green island and a black-and-white floor, framed by the new arch.

A whole home renovated room by room. A plain wall now opens to the kitchen through a wide arch, one black-and-white floor runs from the front door through the hall, kitchen and mudroom, and the laundry room was rebuilt as a mudroom with the washer and dryer kept where they were.

Scope
Whole-home renovation
Location
Guildwood, Scarborough
Rooms
Kitchen and dining, entry and hall, mudroom and laundry, bathrooms
Layout
A wide arched opening into the kitchen
Millwork
Kitchen cabinetry to the ceiling; mudroom lockers, bench and cubbies
Lighting
Concealed light lines under cabinets and shelves, in niches and along ceilings
Completed
Summer 2026

Before and after

  • Opening up the kitchen

    A plain wall beside the old kitchen doorway, opened into a wide arch.

    Before: a plain wall with a narrow doorway through to the old kitchen.
    Before
    After: the same wall opened into a wide arch onto the new kitchen.
    After

  • Laundry into mudroom

    A galley laundry rebuilt as a mudroom: lockers and a bench along one side, the washer and dryer kept on the other.

    Before: a galley laundry with a counter and sink on one side and a stacked washer and dryer on the other.
    Before
    After: sage lockers and a bench along one side, the washer and dryer still on the other.
    After

  • Primary bathroom

    The tiled tub alcove, rebuilt with a new tub, a rain head and hand shower, and a light line up the wall and along the ceiling.

    Before: a tub in a small-tiled alcove with a metal floor register beside it.
    Before
    After: a new tub with a rain head and hand shower, a light line running up the wall and along the ceiling.
    After

The before frames, and the after frames of the kitchen and the tub, are stills from our site video, taken from the same spots.

Kitchen and dining

  • The kitchen seen through the wide arch from the adjoining room, the island in front of the sink wall.
    The new arch into the kitchen
  • The dark green island beside the dishwasher, with the dining area under a vaulted ceiling and the door to the deck beyond.
  • The range wall square on: cabinetry to the ceiling around a concealed hood, the island in front.
  • The faucet and sink under the window, trees outside.
  • The fluted end of the island against the run of drawers and the dishwasher.
    Fluted island end
  • A round outlet set flush into the veined countertop.
    Outlet set flush into the counter
The kitchen looking toward the deck: the sink wall, the island and the range.

Entry and hall

  • The hall running into the kitchen, the black-and-white floor continuing through the doorway.
    One floor from the entry to the kitchen
  • A hall ending at a sage built-in with drawers and a gilt mirror, under a glass ceiling light.
  • Stairs off the entry with dark treads and a wall-mounted rail, beside a panelled door.

Mudroom and laundry

  • The mudroom: tall sage lockers, a bench with hooks and lit cubbies, and the side door.
  • The mudroom bench square on: four hook panels, drawers below and cubbies above a light line.
    Bench, hooks and cubbies
  • Stacked washer and dryer beside the side door, sage cabinets above with a light line beneath.
  • Open cubbies under sage cabinet doors, a light line along the shelf.
    Light line under the cubbies

Primary bathroom

  • A double vanity under two backlit arched mirrors, lit from beneath, with a frosted window beside it.
  • A rain head and hand shower on a slide bar above the tub, a light line along the ceiling.
  • The tub with two lit niches above it, the door and the vanity alongside.
  • Two lit niches set into the wall above the tub, a light channel along the ceiling.
    Lit niches over the tub
  • A rectangular floor vent near the baseboard, filled with the floor tile so the surface runs through it.
    Tile-insert floor vent

Shower room

  • The shower room from the door: a glass walk-in shower, a vanity under an oval mirror between swan sconces, and a black-and-white floor.
  • The walk-in shower behind clear glass, with a lit niche and two light lines in the ceiling.
  • A small vanity under an oval mirror, a swan sconce on each side.
  • A square drain inside the shower, filled with tile, the floor tiles cut so the floor falls toward it.
    Tile-insert shower drain