There’s nothing ordinary about this yard’s transformation; it’s a story of vision and timing. First, there was homeowner Steve Mykolyn’s chance meeting with his Grade 12 prom date—but we’ll get to that. Then, outside Mykolyn’s house, there was the 1,700-square-foot concrete slab, which used to be where a garage serviced trucks in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood. Here’s where the vision part comes in: Mykolyn, the executive creative director at a Toronto ad agency, had the foresight back in 1995 to imagine that this industrial warehouse could be the stylish abode he’d been looking for. “Today, people are looking for buildings like this, but back then it was a real oddity,” he says.
**A Japanese maple surrounded by periwinkle defines the dining area.**
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