Rafael Brusilow – Metro Toronto

Trendy designs often impress with gim­micks, but they also age quickly. That’s why Mar­ket Wharf, located near the St. Lawrence Mar­ket, demon­strates the power of taste­ful moder­nity instead.

Mar­ket Wharf’s direc­tor of inte­rior design and mar­ket­ing Craig Tay­lor says the goal of the over­all design at the devel­op­ment was not to chase trends but to cre­ate them.

“We really tried to stay away from flashy, trendy designs and just give our pur­chasers some­thing that’s sim­ple, ele­gant and mod­ern. Flashy designs date very eas­ily so we wanted to pro­vide a prod­uct that endures with time,” Tay­lor said.

When it comes to com­mand­ing a space, kitchens are king and Mar­ket Wharf’s kitchen area shows off a few unique, mod­ern twists with quartz coun­ter­tops, dark cab­i­netry with hor­i­zon­tal wood grain, a full-sized stain­less steel vent hood over the stove, an under­mount sink and a European-style fridge that is tall and sleek instead of the usual chubby food box stan­dard in so many con­dos.

“One of my pet peeves is short, fat North Amer­i­can fridges. We’ve gone with a Euro­pean, extra tall, true counter-depth fridge with a full depth gable on both sides. It’s not some­thing you typ­i­cally see in Toronto — this is just another way for us to up the ante,” Tay­lor said.

The kitchen floor bright­ens up the space with large porce­lain tiles that can be extended through­out the entire apart­ment, should the pur­chaser request it, to expand the look of
the suite, though a hard­wood fin­ish is also available.

“Every time you break up the floor­ing mate­r­ial, it makes the space smaller, the porce­lain really opens up the space. You’re always fight­ing for every square inch down­town, so any­thing we can do to enlarge the space, we’ll do,” Tay­lor said.

In the bath­room, ele­ments like an over­size cus­tom frame mir­ror, under­mount sink and wall tiling that extends beyond the shower to take over an entire fea­ture wall cre­ate a look that inspires with its atten­tion to detail rather than gim­micky tricks. The cab­i­netry is iden­ti­cal to that used in the kitchen to add to the uni­fied feel of the suite and project close­ness instead of the typ­i­cal mod­ern detachment.

“We wanted to pro­vide a very mod­ern, clean hotel spa-style bath­room that keeps to a mod­ern warmth but is still ele­gant,” Tay­lor said.

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