{"id":265492,"date":"2025-10-15T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=265492"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:16:31","slug":"glenrose-tudor-home-rz-interiors-toronto","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/glenrose-tudor-home-rz-interiors-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeless In Toronto: Where Clean Lines Meet Contemporary Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kitchen storage includes a built-in coffee bar. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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October 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Edie\u00a0Cohen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Ryan Fung Photography<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Timeless In Toronto: Where Clean Lines Meet Contemporary Living<\/h1>\n\n\n

The elegant, white stucco residence with Tudor inspired gables and distinctive arches in Toronto\u2019s posh Glenrose area may not look 100 years old, but that\u2019s what the homeowners avowed upon initial meeting with Bahar Zaeem and Shima Radfar. That\u2019s not all the design partners, who co-founded RZ Interiors<\/a> eight years ago after meeting at Toronto Metropolitan University, learned. Early meetings, back in 2022, revealed a couple, now with two young daughters, who knew exactly what they wanted. \u201cThey came full of notes for a modern, clean aesthetic,\u201d Zaeem introduces their interiors wish list for the two-story, 2,500-square-foot property. In fact, she continues, \u201cthey had a pdf categorizing every space.\u201d Radfar adds that the brief also stipulated \u201chigh-end, good quality materials.\u201d In short, a far cry from the existing situation of compartmentalized, constrained spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The designers opted for a gut renovation. \u201cHere in Toronto, nobody likes to keep things,\u201d Zaeem laughs. The only exception was the sun room, which they incorporated into the main space with bi-fold doors to count in the square footage. Per usual, both participated\u2014one led as project manager, the other focused on ideation. This time around, Radfar assumed the former role, Zaeem the latter. The approach, they explain, facilitates communication between the design team and clients, contractors, and vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RZ Interiors Crafts A Modern Home With Effortless Style<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Via bi-fold doors, the sun room is integrated into the salon, where the designers provided a new sofa and rug to complement the daughter\u2019s piano. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enter and voil\u00e0, the designers\u2019 contemporary vision instantly comes to life. It starts off at the welcoming corridor, distinguished by a soffit subtly aglow with LED\u2019s and a hefty, curvaceous plaster partition backdropping a moss sculpture. Note, this is a partition not a wall. Key to RZ Interior\u2019s newly designed floor plan is the lack of walls. Nothing to impinge upon the interflowing, yet carefully articulated spaces. Nothing to obstruct a sight line from inside to out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how organization works. On the backside of that entry partition stands the kitchen. It caps the clients\u2019 desiderata as the generous hub of the house. At street-side a built-in bench cum storage signals a cozy breakfast nook. At the other end, a triple-sided fireplace marks transition to the living zone where pride of place goes to a piano, its player the elder six-year-old. Straight ahead is the sun room; the dining area is situated behind the salon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Contemporary Vision Come To Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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RZ Interiors built endowed the kitchen hub with a front storage bench, a center island, abundant laminate-clad cabinetry, and a fireplace signaling transition to the living salon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Interiors are enviable for their copious storage cabinetry, somewhat of an RZ Interiors signature and wish number two. Comprising pale greige AGT laminate cladding, metallic laminate for sparkly detailing, and counters of Cosentino<\/a>\u2019s Silestone, elements have smooth radius edges and are all of a piece. Which brings us to the palette, monotonal in muted colors, minimal in materials. Pale engineered wood flooring runs throughout. Black painted steel adds pop to fenestration framing and lighting tracks within the slightly lowered ceiling. That\u2019s it. Not a single baseboard interrupts the clean-line flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there\u2019s a stairway. Radfar and Zaeem repositioned it to make room for a front powder room, another client request. Simultaneously angular and curving, \u201cthe stair turns like a ribbon,\u201d notes Zaeem. With its integrated LED strips, it leads to a mezzanine and the second floor where the designers built a bona fide primary suite. Though compact, the bedroom now boasts everything needed including ample closet and built-in, illuminated headboard with nightstands thoughtfully attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The primary bedroom has a custom headboard with affixed night stands to make the best of a compact space. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As part of their no-nonsense process, succinctly expressed on the firm\u2019s web site, the designers asked the owners what furnishings they wanted to keep. No heavy-handed out with the old, in with the new. Ergo the pared-down mix includes an existing marble-topped dining table, its chairs, and a coffee table paired with the living room\u2019s new sofa and rug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RZ Interior’s work extended sub-grade, making the basement a fully used extension. Along with play space for the kids are a bathroom, laundry, and gym facilities. Within the overall compact space, \u201cwe worked within inches, to make everything fit,\u201d Radfar sums up the scope. All in a manner as timeless as the house\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RZ Interiors Reimagines A Tudor Home For The Modern Era<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The designers took cues from the fa\u00e7ade of the 100-year-old house only a fresh coat of paint brightening its stucco.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kitchen storage includes a built-in coffee bar. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The new powder room has porcelain slabs cladding walls with the same material used for the vanity\u2019s integrated sink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A stone and brass lighting fixture brings warmth to the dining area while curvilinear cabinets are for storage and to conceal HVAC equipment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A hefty partition backdropping a moss sculpture and illuminated soffit define the entry corridor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The integrally lit stairway is simultaneously angular and curving. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n