Do you work with heritage or historically designated homes in Toronto?

Most of my work is in Toronto's older residential neighbourhoods. The Junction, High Park, Roncesvalles, The Annex, Rosedale, Parkdale. The homes there are typically 80 to 130 years old, and a lot of them have original leaded glass that needs attention, or openings that deserve something better than what's in them.

Design in a heritage home is different

For a heritage home, I'm not just asking what you like. I'm asking what fits. The glass types, lead profiles, and design patterns that were common when your home was built are a real part of what I work from. A Victorian transom gets a different treatment than an Edwardian front door. Getting that right matters because a window that's out of period can feel wrong in a way that's hard to explain but easy to see.

The goal is always a window that looks like it was always there.

Formally designated properties

For homes with formal heritage designation, there are sometimes restrictions on exterior changes. In most cases, replacing deteriorated leaded glass with a like-for-like restoration falls well within what's permitted because you're preserving, not altering. Adding new leaded glass to an existing opening is generally also fine if the design is period-appropriate. If you're unsure about your specific property, I can help you think through it.

Recreating what was lost

Some of the most interesting work I've done has been recreating windows that were removed or lost from a heritage home. Working from old photographs, matching surviving originals elsewhere in the same house, or sometimes just from a description of what was there. It's a different kind of brief but it's exactly the kind of work that makes sense in homes with this much history in them.