Situated on a deep, tree-lined lot in North York, this KingsGate Luxury Homes custom build at 145 Maxome Avenue delivers a complete study in classical architecture carried consistently from the street-facing limestone facade all the way through to the primary ensuite’s marble-wrapped soaker tub. The house is built around a series of formal volumes — a grand entrance hall, a circular-domed dining room, an open family gathering space anchored by twin limestone fireplaces — yet the transitions between them feel composed rather than rigid. An ornate wrought iron staircase, a skylit upper landing, and a sitting bay off the primary suite with views to the mature rear gardens all give the home a particular warmth that formal architecture doesn’t always achieve.
Exterior: Buff Limestone, Double Arched Garage Doors and a Leaded Glass Entry
The front elevation is clad in cream buff limestone with classically proportioned windows, a second-storey balcony with a wrought iron railing, and a pair of dark walnut-stained wood garage doors with arched tops. The entry is the clearest statement of the home’s character: a full arched surround frames a solid walnut door set with an oval leaded diamond-pattern glass insert and matching sidelights, topped by an arched transom also filled with diamond leaded glass. Wrought iron railings flank the stone entry steps. From the street, the house reads as composed and confident — no borrowed flourishes, each element in proportion with the next.
Entry Hall: Polished Marble, Arched Millwork and a Crystal Pendant
Inside, the foyer opens onto a polished cream marble tile floor that reflects the overhead light back upward, giving the entry immediate brightness. The walls are dressed in raised-panel wainscotting that continues the full length of the centre hall. The door surround is repeated inside as a full arched cased opening with a decorative keystone, framing the transition from the vestibule into the main hall. A crystal and brass lantern pendant hangs in the vestibule above the door. Deeper in the hall, a multi-arm nickel chandelier drops from the ceiling below a second arched cased opening. At the far end of the hall the walnut entry door and its leaded transom are visible, creating a symmetrical sightline from the rear of the house straight to the front. A French-door library flanks the right side of the hall.
Staircase: Dark Walnut Treads and Ornate Scrolling Wrought Iron Balusters
The staircase anchors the right side of the main floor. The treads are dark walnut stained wood, and the balusters are ornate scrolling wrought iron with floral and leaf motifs — each one individually forged in a repeating pattern. The dark walnut handrail sweeps from the ground floor up to the second level, where the same wrought iron railing continues along the open upper landing. Looking up through the stairwell, the oval skylight dome on the upper floor is visible from below, pulling light down through two storeys.
Living Room: Limestone Fireplace, Coffered Tray Ceiling and Grand Piano
The formal living room sits to the front left of the main floor. The floors shift here from marble to wide-plank dark hardwood, and a coffered tray ceiling with recessed lighting provides the room’s architectural framework. The centrepiece is a large cast limestone fireplace surround with pilaster legs, a full-height hearth, and a Venetian-style ornate mirror mounted above the mantle. Crystal and nickel wall sconces are positioned on either side of the fireplace. Floor-to-ceiling pinch-pleat drapes in a sage and seafoam silk-look fabric frame the front window. A grand piano in the corner is a natural fit for a room with this scale and proportion.
Dining Room: Circular Plaster Dome Ceiling and Multi-Tier Crystal Chandelier
The dining room is the formal centrepiece of the main floor’s entertaining sequence. Its most distinctive architectural feature is a circular plaster ceiling dome, deeply recessed into the tray ceiling and ringed with plaster moulding detail. A multi-tier crystal chandelier drops through the centre of the dome above the dining table. The surrounding tray ceiling and wainscotting continue the millwork vocabulary of the rest of the floor. The cast limestone fireplace — the second of two on this level — sits between the dining area and the open family sitting space. Tufted velvet wingback dining chairs in silver-grey surround a large dark walnut table. Floor-to-ceiling silk drapes with pinch-pleat headers match those in the living room, wrapping the space in a consistent material language.
Upper Landing: Oval Skylight Dome and Second-Floor Laundry
At the top of the staircase the upper hall opens beneath a large oval skylight dome set into a curved plaster ceiling. The dome floods the landing with natural light throughout the day, making the upper floor feel as open and considered as the main level below. Wainscotting continues on the landing walls. From this vantage point the layout of the upper floor is visible: bedroom doors leading off in multiple directions, and a second-floor laundry room built directly into the hall — a practical feature that doesn’t sacrifice any of the aesthetic finish of the space.
Primary Suite: Fireplace, Sitting Bay and Garden Views
The primary bedroom is large enough to comfortably hold a king bed with a leather upholstered bench at the foot, matching nightstands with built-in drawers, and a full sitting area. The ceiling is a coffered/beamed tray design with a crystal flush-mount chandelier featuring ornate scrollwork mounting. A built-in fireplace with a white painted surround includes frosted glass-door cabinet storage at the base and a wall-mounted television mounted directly above. The highlight of the room is the attached sitting bay: a rounded hexagonal bump-out with multiple large windows looking over the mature rear garden. A small crystal chandelier hangs in this bay, and two tufted upholstered chairs sit against the windows. The walls throughout the suite are painted in a warm taupe that reads as calm and restful.
Primary Ensuite: Full Marble, Skylit Shower and Venetian Mirror Vanity
The primary ensuite is finished entirely in white and grey veined marble — the floor, the soaker tub surround, and every wall surface inside the glass shower enclosure. The oval soaker tub sits beneath the window with a chrome three-piece deck-mount faucet set. The glass-enclosed shower is oversized, with multiple body jets, a ceiling-mount rain head, and a built-in marble niche shelf; a skylight above the shower brings in natural daylight. The double vanity uses white painted cabinetry with a marble countertop and chrome hardware. The vanity wall is the most decorative element: a recessed stone tile backsplash niche frames two ornate Venetian-style oval mirrors with intricate silver mosaic tile frames, lit from between by amber and bronze crystal sconce fixtures.
Secondary Bedrooms and Ensuites
The secondary bedrooms each have dark hardwood floors, crown moulding, and bay or oversized windows that look out to the rear gardens and surrounding mature trees. One bedroom features a dramatic metallic mirrored-mosaic tile ensuite: a full feature wall tiled in an embossed damask-pattern reflective tile, with two flat-framed mirrors set into the tile surface and crystal tube pendant sconces overhead. The dark quartz double vanity countertop contrasts with the white painted cabinetry below and chrome faucet hardware. Another secondary bedroom has an arched palladian-style window with a full transom above — an unusual detail at this scale for an upper-floor bedroom — with its own ensuite visible through the doorway. A fourth room is finished as a home office with white walls, dark hardwood, and a triple window. All secondary rooms share the consistent finish level of the rest of the house: no room feels like an afterthought.
Rear Elevation and Grounds
The rear of the home reveals a different profile from the street view: a rounded corner turret with a conical cap and large multi-pane windows, stucco cladding on the rear elevation, and a walk-out deck with stairs descending to grade. A sub-grade garage is accessible from the rear yard beneath the deck. The lot is deep and private, lined on the sides by tall mature conifers and deciduous trees that provide a canopy of green through the spring and summer months.
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145 Maxome Avenue is one of many custom homes designed and built by KingsGate Luxury Homes across North York and the Greater Toronto Area. If you are planning a custom build and want to discuss architecture, materials, and the level of detail you see here, the KingsGate team is ready to talk. Reach us at +1 (416) 888-2288, or visit us at 101 Duncan Mills Road, Unit 103, Toronto. We build homes that are worth writing about.