Rosedale-Moore Park, Toronto

The doors are the same doors.

• Sprayed in Stone Hearth
• New brass bar pulls, old holes filled
• Granite, backsplash and appliances kept

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   01

   Every door is numbered before a single screw comes out, because door fourteen only fits opening fourteen. They leave together, get stripped, sanded and sprayed in the booth rather than in the kitchen, and come back to the opening they came from.

2. 

   02

   This is the proof the door is the original one. It went out orange-toned maple and came back sprayed, with the colour taped to its face so the right door meets the right kitchen. Nothing was bought and nothing was thrown away — the boxes, the hinges and the doors are all the ones that were here.

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   03

   The granite, the mirrored backsplash, the appliances and the floor are untouched. In a condo that matters more than in a house — no room to open up, nothing structural to move — so the only thing that can change the room is the finish on what is already there.