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Furniture designer Tom Deacon teamed up with pal and architect Andrew Jones to renovate his Toronto townhouse. “Architects tend to think of the building first, the interiors second, and last, the furniture. Our approach was the opposite,” Jones says.

The original home was converted into a bedroom level, and given a second-story addition and roof deck. The dark exterior color, a charcoal-eggplant hue, lets the landscape colors stand out in contrast. “The existing house roof became the roof deck,” says Rogers. “And then I just shifted over the addition so that it floated over the landscape.”

The painted black wood facades vary. Some feature wide slats on a fixed board, others feature thin ones.

After: By knocking down a wall, they opened up the kitchen to the living room to create one great room, ideal for entertaining.

In the guest bath, the Villacarillos drew inspiration from the original white 4x4 tiles.