Tour a modern laneway house that shows the potential of your own backyard

Laneway houses have been gaining traction in Toronto ever since the City passed regulations last summer allowing homeowners to convert garages and transform unused space into suites and private homes.
Increasing the supply of housing will ease Toronto’s tight rental market and, ideally, improve affordability. Laneway houses also pose the perfect opportunity to design innovative spaces that will bring character to our streets.
We have architect Craig Race to thank, whose company, Lanescape, wrote the laneway housing policy. Here, Race shows us an 1,800-square-foot laneway house that he designed before the laneway program was put in place. This modern, industrial, two-bedroom space houses a growing family in the east end, and helped pave the way for many laneway houses to come!
Curious to see what the inside of a laneway house looks like? Considering building one yourself? Don’t miss these tips from Craig Race and Emmanuel Belliveau, a designer who specializes in laneway housing.
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Video and photography: James Bombales
Producer: Jenny Morris
Editor: Kelsey Pudloski
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lanescape.ca/
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[@tonymontagna9419]

This is great my in-laws who live in bloor west village who bought their home for $177,000 in 1995. They are permitted to build a 1500 sq ft lame way home. They know a lot of people in the trades, so all cash no taxes. They were quoted for $300,000 to build it will be able to get $3,000 a month rent. Amazing return on investment.

[@DASWEDE420]

I like how we saw the upstairs.....

[@Up_north_with_Mike]

Maybe they couldn’t find the stairs

[@heymanyouwell]

To contact Emmanuel Belliveau of Eva Lanes, visit www.evalanes.com or email them at [e-mail]

[@jws44444]

Wow, that dining set.... design notes said to go to Restoration Hardware but someone went to The Brick instead.

[@NazarSayed]

Are laneway suites allowed to build bylaw in Oshawa, ON?

[@MAYK1NG]

Much.of this is beautiful but the hardware looks cheap and the Grey wall looks like laminate. This could have been stunning.