My Place
Open House
BY Alex Laws March 05, 2008 14:03
WHO: Heather Nicol, artist and independent curator; her children Nicola, 12, and David, 15; plus Zaza, 6, dog.
WHAT: Four-bedroom Victorian semi-detached townhouse.
WHERE: Little Portugal.
HOW LONG: Three years.
FAVOURITE ROOM: “I don’t really have a favourite room; it’s not really that type of house. There are so many different zones for different aspects of living.”
THE STORY: Nicol transformed her Victorian townhouse with a 12-week reno that opened the house up by knocking down the wall between the living and dining rooms, cutting a peephole into the kitchen wall and removing the walls of two upstairs bedrooms. Her playful and flamboyant functional art pieces (see picture at right) are part sculpture, part light fittings (see www.heather
nicol.ca for more information).
625 Church St, 6th Floor, Toronto M4Y 2G1
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